WAVE 3 TV Louisville, KY | Maira Ansari
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Maira Ansari joined WAVE 3 in February 2007 as a general assignment reporter, and anchored the weekend Sunrise show for several months before returning to full-time reporter duty.
She's thrilled to call Kentucky her new home. Maira has lived in Illinois her entire life and grew up in a small town in southern Illinois.
Before moving to Louisville, Maira worked as the Morning and Midday anchor at WICD-NewsChannel 15 in Champaign, IL. Maira enjoyed participating in community service while spending time in east-central Illinois. Everything from the American Diabetes Association, to the Girl Scouts, to participating in a corn eating contest!
Maira started her television career off in Springfield, IL, where she was the city beat reporter. Before that, she was an intern at WCIA, the CBS affiliate in Springfield. During her college career, Maira got a taste of what television journalism was all about. Everything from working in her college newsroom, to interning in Los Angeles, California at the entertainment new magazine show "EXTRA," and traveling abroad to study television in London, England. It was a fantastic experience that she says she was thrilled to enjoy.
Maira graduated from the Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. She got her Bachelors in the top rated Radio/Television program. She also received a minor in Marketing and Speech Communications. In 2002 Maira received her Master's degree from the University of Illinois at Springfield.
Maira has also traveled to more than 12 countries and speaks several different languages. She enjoys culture, great food, and fantastic friends! But, most of all, spending time with her cat PhiPhi.
If you have a story you would like Maira to cover, email her at mansari@wave3.com.
While many parents are waiting for Kentuckiana schools to make a decision on classes for Tuesday, they are also thinking about what they'll do if their kids have to stay home.
Social networking sites like Facebook can bring people together, but some couples say they can also play a big part in ending relationships as well.
It has been talked about for years, and on Tuesday leaders from Kentucky and Indiana took a big step towards getting the Ohio River bridges built.
A local organization that headed to Haiti over a week ago to provide much needed clean water to earthquake victims is back in Louisville. Jerry McBroom and several other volunteers with Edge Outreach just got back from their trip to Haiti. Jerry's main purpose during the trip was to document Edge's work there. He shared his pictures with us.
It has been weeks since a 7.0 earthquake destroyed Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, but the chaos is far from over in the country.
Toyota is telling dealers to stop selling eight models and the automaker is even shutting down their production because of fears of faulty accelerators in some of their vehicles. The production halt means some changes for workers at Toyota's Georgetown, KY plant.
The ice across Kentuckiana Tuesday morning caused big problems for a lot of people. Wet roads, falling temperatures, and rush hour traffic combined for a perfect storm, which created problems for road crews.
More help could be on the way for the middle class. President Obama, pushing an economic theme as he heads into Wednesday's State of the Union address, wants to extend benefits for millions of Americans.
Food, water, and medical care is pouring into Haiti. In the 10 days since the devastating 7.0 earthquake on the afternoon of January 12, people in Kentuckiana keep volunteering to leave home to help save others. Three local medical professionals are heading there to provide needed care to earthquake victims.
A team of missionaries from Frankfort were just five days into their trip in Haiti when the 7.0 earthquake hit on January 12. Finally, they are back home after a long journey. Nobody in their group was hurt, but they found themselves stranded in the devastated country.
