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Newscaster Mirthala Salinas and Telemundo part ways.

Article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) Article date: October 2, 2007

Oct. 2--Television newscaster Mirthala Salinas, who was having an affair with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa while broadcasting news of his separation from his wife, has left the Telemundo network, the station announced Monday.

Salinas, 35, had been reassigned to the Inland Empire as a general assignment reporter covering Riverside and San Bernardino, after a two-month unpaid suspension following disclosure of the affair by the Daily News.

The network in a statement Monday said, "Telemundo-KVEA 52 and Mirthala ...

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