Darien's Scott Pelley to Anchor CBS Evening News

Darien resident and "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley will replace Katie Couric as the anchor of CBS Evening News, the network announced Monday.

The news came after Couric confirmed last week that she would step down from her post when her contract expires on June 4. Pelley is set to take over on June 6.

A Texas native, Pelley has covered a wide array of stories in different positions at CBS News since joining the network in 1989. He previously served as the network's chief White House correspondent.

His resume includes such stories as the Oklahoma City bombing, the 1992 presidential campaign, the impeachment of President Clinton, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the recent financial crisis, and both the 1993 and 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.

Pelley and his team have won two George Foster Peabody awards, one of journalism's highest honors. The first came in 2007 for coverage of an incident in Haditha, Iraq in which U.S. Marines allegedly killed 22 civilians; the second for a 2009 report on Remote Area Medical, an international relief organization.

Pelley and his family moved to Darien three years ago from Virginia. In an interview last year with New Canaan - Darien Magazine, he joked that his basement — which is outfitted with equipment to record narrations for his segments — was his "Darien Bureau."