John Boel
Anchor, Troubleshooter investigative reporter
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John Boel's wins for best news anchor three of the past four years put his career Emmy Award total at 98, but he's even more proud of his wife and two daughters.
John is a 13-time Edward R. Murrow Award winner, but he's even prouder of his efforts helping people in the world of addiction recovery.
When he's not working or speaking, John enjoys fishing and training for triathlons. He has completed 13 Ironman Triathlons is also an author. His book "On the News, In the News" spent three months on the Louisville best-seller list.
Every weekday from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and 11 p.m., John co-anchors WAVE News, and he loves to tell a good story.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2023 at 6:21 PM EDT
|By John Boel
It looks like all the other homes in the neighborhood. However what Louisville was, is, and can be, is all contained in one of the houses in the shadow of the nearby interstate highway.
Updated: Sep. 7, 2023 at 4:50 PM EDT
|By John Boel
Consumer Reports dove into the issue as well and found that in Kentucky full coverage good drivers with poor credit paid almost $1,000 a year more than drivers with a DUI and excellent credit.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2023 at 4:41 PM EDT
|By John Boel
The WAVE Troubleshooter continues to get complaints about drug houses. We went undercover to see if a change in leadership at LMPD has meant a change in enforcement.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2023 at 5:03 PM EDT
|By John Boel
It can be stressful to have to go to court and frustrating when you have to go multiple times. Even more so when you have to take off work each time and lose income because of it.
Updated: Jun. 29, 2023 at 6:00 PM EDT
|By John Boel
John Boel investigates after multiple reports of patients being dumped out of Louisville hospitals.
Updated: Jun. 8, 2023 at 6:00 PM EDT
|By John Boel
A family dispute on a Shelby County ballfield during a high school baseball game led to something much bigger.
Updated: May. 8, 2023 at 6:00 PM EDT
|By John Boel
After being approved for every kind of specialty care you can get in Kentucky, one parent was told his son couldn’t get any specialty care in Kentucky unless he gave up his parental rights.
Updated: Apr. 21, 2023 at 6:10 PM EDT
|By John Boel
One of the most memorable moments in Thunder Over Louisville's history was the little firecracker born in the middle of the mob 23 years ago.
Updated: Dec. 13, 2022 at 6:35 PM EST
|By John Boel
"There was nothing in her apartment that was illegal."
Updated: Nov. 30, 2022 at 6:00 PM EST
|By John Boel
For 22 years, Kent Taylor worked with the WAVE Sports department. However, you can’t define what all makes Kent Taylor special just by his sports reports.
Updated: Oct. 14, 2022 at 11:00 PM EDT
|By John Boel
More than 500 light poles rendered useless because someone has been stealing the high grade copper wiring inside.
Updated: Oct. 14, 2022 at 6:00 PM EDT
|By John Boel
One Kentucky family was told they need to sign their special needs child over and put them in the state’s care in order to get help.
Updated: Sep. 27, 2022 at 5:55 PM EDT
|By John Boel
Donna Purvis is co-sponsoring an ordinance amendment that would require random code enforcement inspections at rental properties and create a registry to ensure properties are up to code.
Updated: Sep. 13, 2022 at 5:57 PM EDT
|By John Boel
Gary Thompson was jailed and chased out of places all around Kentucky and earned the nickname, “The Bogus Beggar.”
Updated: Aug. 25, 2022 at 6:12 PM EDT
|By John Boel
An Old Louisville drug house across the street from a senior living center seems to be thriving, all while there appears to be no help from the police.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2022 at 6:00 PM EDT
|By John Boel
The Consumer Federation of America saw the original report and sent a five-page letter to the Kentucky Department of Insurance urging an investigation of pricing practices.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2022 at 5:55 PM EDT
|By John Boel
Troubleshooters tested an allegation that people in the west end of Louisville are paying way more for auto insurance than residents living elsewhere in the city.
Updated: Jul. 11, 2022 at 6:00 PM EDT
|By John Boel
When the WAVE troubleshooters first investigated 3304 Bardstown Road, then called the Economy Inn, we found LMPD had made 1,370 runs there in 2014.
Updated: May. 20, 2022 at 1:59 PM EDT
|By John Boel
John Boel recounts his long history with Walt "Santa Walt" Queen — "the most amazing person I’ve ever met."
Updated: May. 2, 2022 at 6:00 PM EDT
|By John Boel
The topic of the Louisville Forum in April: Is horse racing’s legitimacy at stake at Derby 148?
Updated: Apr. 21, 2022 at 6:10 PM EDT
|By John Boel
One issue appears to be at the forefront in Louisville with far-reaching repercussions for a large number of city drivers: police failing to respond to crash sites.
Updated: Apr. 7, 2022 at 5:25 PM EDT
|By John Boel
City code inspectors made 28 visits over the last few years to a Portland property assessing hundreds of dollars in fines.
Updated: Feb. 28, 2022 at 6:10 PM EST
|By John Boel
Petition drives to allow Black citizens to join the Pleasure Ridge Park Fire Department failed until 1923.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2022 at 6:00 PM EST
|By John Boel
Customers were caught off guard after the unusually mild December when they thought they were about to get a much-needed break from the higher bills.
Updated: Feb. 14, 2022 at 12:00 AM EST
|By John Boel
No matter what the weather, drug activity was occurring right across the street from a building that was marked by a sign as an LMPD substation.
Updated: Dec. 22, 2021 at 6:02 PM EST
|By John Boel
Over the past 15 years, Santa Walt Queen has brought smiles to thousands of children, but now he faces one of his toughest battles.
Updated: Dec. 14, 2021 at 6:10 PM EST
|By John Boel
Louisville Codes and Regulations has said they are having issues following up on violations due to COVID and staffing issues.
Updated: Nov. 23, 2021 at 7:14 PM EST
|By John Boel
Our informant said what’s going on there is worse than a crime. He said it’s profiting off of someone’s disease.
Updated: Nov. 2, 2021 at 6:02 PM EDT
|By John Boel
WAVE 3 News showed up at the home to ask some questions and found used syringes and their orange caps.
Updated: Oct. 7, 2021 at 6:13 PM EDT
|By John Boel
Stewart Pope of the Legal Aid Society explained what landlords who witness alleged criminal destruction of their property should do.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2021 at 6:55 PM EDT
|By John Boel
A local foster parent needed help from a case worker -- and from the WAVE 3 Troubleshooters -- to get state aid for her 12 and 13-year-old foster kids.
Updated: Sep. 15, 2021 at 6:15 PM EDT
|By John Boel
It sounds like a tragedy, but Kate Nason thought otherwise, instead choosing to push through her pain.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2021 at 12:50 AM EDT
|By John Boel
A bitter war of words and laws has erupted after Metro Louisville leaders tried to shut down two convenience stores on Broadway under the nuisance ordinance — a first of its kind punishment for businesses in the city.
Updated: Jul. 31, 2021 at 12:05 AM EDT
|By John Boel
One hand couldn’t keep Chance Anthony from catching touchdowns, but one hand is keeping him from catching criminals.
Updated: Jul. 27, 2021 at 1:10 AM EDT
|By John Boel
The DEA Heroin Investigation Team claimed since 2017, it has reviewed 435 overdose cases, initiated 27 investigations, and prosecuted 46 people.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2021 at 6:01 PM EDT
|By John Boel
Metro Council President David James has a problem, and no ordinance, zoning change, or task force can help him.
Updated: May. 12, 2021 at 6:22 PM EDT
|By John Boel
Fifty firefighters unknowingly tried in vain to save a place that one of its former customers said was burning a hole of misery into the souls of the addicted.
Updated: May. 3, 2021 at 6:42 PM EDT
|By John Boel
Getting to the doctor should be the easiest part of healthcare, but for many in Indiana, it has become the toughest.
Updated: Apr. 6, 2021 at 9:14 PM EDT
|By John Boel
A Harvard study found one-third of the nation’s homeless have a serious mental illness. You can see homelessness all around downtown and the numbers grow every year.
Updated: Feb. 19, 2021 at 7:48 PM EST
|By John Boel
The newest home that Troubleshooter investigators are asking questions about is at 103 St. Catherine Street, where numerous instances of alleged drug deals and drug use are being reported.
Updated: Dec. 14, 2020 at 7:09 PM EST
|By John Boel
It’s one of Louisville’s grandest Derby galas, but a WAVE 3 News Troubleshooter investigation found some interesting trends regarding the amount of money the Unbridled Eve gala has been donating to charities.
Updated: Nov. 10, 2020 at 7:09 PM EST
|By John Boel
He became known as the “bogus beggar” through his fake panhandling act all over Kentucky.
Updated: Oct. 2, 2020 at 6:44 PM EDT
|By John P. Wise, Natalia Martinez and John Boel
The grand jury recording of the state’s presentation of the Breonna Taylor case was released Friday.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2020 at 12:33 AM EDT
|By John Boel
“Seeing our beautiful downtown getting literally destroyed, man it’s just heartbreaking,” Youness Elmesyah said.
Updated: Aug. 18, 2020 at 7:24 PM EDT
|By John Boel
A local pastor is accused of running a drug house at one of the Louisville properties he owns.
Updated: Jul. 20, 2020 at 7:43 PM EDT
|By John Boel
A 6-year-old boy who loved to play basketball, Malachi Fryer didn’t know anything about guns.
Updated: May. 29, 2020 at 7:31 PM EDT
|By John Boel
Eighty-year-old Mildred Thompson is still confused about what went down that day.
Updated: May. 5, 2020 at 12:10 AM EDT
|By John Boel
After our second report, complaints about the shelter’s conditions ended in this weekend’s raid by state police.
Updated: Apr. 24, 2020 at 6:57 PM EDT
|By John Boel
In less than a month the city of Louisville received more than 2,000 complaints about businesses violating Governor Andy Beshear’s order to close non-essential businesses.
Updated: Mar. 25, 2020 at 1:18 AM EDT
|By John Boel
On a recent day around the Louisville area, WAVE 3 News Troubleshooter John Boel found plenty of people out playing basketball or congregating in groups, doing exactly the things Gov. Andy Beshear is urging Kentuckians not to do.