By the late 1980s and early 1990s, she developed a national reputation when she became a top weekday news anchor at WSVN-TV in Miami, Florida.
In early 1999, Lovett and her husband, Jeff Abrams, moved to the Baltimore area, where he took a behind-the-scenes news operations job at WBAL-TV.
[1] "Though WBBM TV had long been plagued by poor ratings before I arrived, I enjoyed my exciting, if turbulent time there.
Lovett suffered from alcoholism in the late 1990s and early 2000s, a condition that was exacerbated, she told CBS News in 2004, by her lack of work.
[2] While she was in prison, Lovett's husband, Jeff Abrams, died of an apparent heart attack while jogging on October 10, 2002 at age 46.