BIG D BOUND: Popular KTVI (Channel 2) reporter and co-anchor, Teresa Woodard, is leaving the station to go back home to Dallas where she has lined up a job as a reporter at WFAA, the ABC affiliate there.

Woodard joined KTVI in October 2005, coming here from WBIR in Knoxville, Tenn. A Dallas native and a graduate of Texas A&M University, Woodard started her career at KCEN in Waco, Tex., and then went to KBTX in Bryan, Tex., before moving to Tennessee.

Woodard has been a Society of Professional Journalism award winner for reporting and was a finalist for the Tennessee Associated Press Television Reporter of the Year award.

Station management said Woodward has been an outstanding employee. In saying farewell, GM Spencer Koch noted: "Teresa has been a great team player, who has been a great contributor to the success of Fox 2 ... she will be missed."

Woodard is planning to stay in town through the station's February sweeps month. She is married to Mark Schnyder, an Emmy award-winning reporter at KMOV (Channel 4). Schnyder, who grew up in Houston and is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. Schnyder is planning to stay in St. Louis for the near future to mind the house and the couple's dogs.