Brooke Spurlock covers education, crime and more in Clark and Champaign counties as an All-Media Journalist for the Springfield News-Sun. She has been a writer for a few years, which includes her previous work as a breaking news desk investigator, reporter and web editor. Spurlock has her bachelor’s degree in mass communications with a minor in psychology and her associate's degree in paralegal. She is a dog mom of an eight-year-old Australian Cattle dog named Kali and of a once 14-year-old half Cockapoo half Lhasa Apso dog named Snickers who is now in heaven.