An SIUC graduate and former anchorwoman for WSIL-TV 3 is in critical condition after suffering a brain aneurysm last week in Florida.

Amy (Van Patten) Ofenbeck, a Bowling Green, Ky., native, is at high risk for a stroke and will remain in intensive care at a Fort Myers, Fla., hospital for at least another week. Doctors have yet to decide the extent of injury.

Jim Rasor, WSIL-TV meteorologist, said Ofenbeck’s neurologist said Ofenbeck has a 90-percent recovery rate.

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Ofenbeck left the Carbondale area earlier this year to become an anchorwoman for the ABC-TV affiliate in Ft. Myers, Fla. She received a bachelor’s degree in radio-television from SIUC in 1992.