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.
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John Boel recounts his long history with Walt "Santa Walt" Queen — "the most amazing person I’ve ever met."
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The topic of the Louisville Forum in April: Is horse racing’s legitimacy at stake at Derby 148?
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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.
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City code inspectors made 28 visits over the last few years to a Portland property assessing hundreds of dollars in fines.
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Petition drives to allow Black citizens to join the Pleasure Ridge Park Fire Department failed until 1923.
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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.
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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.
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Over the past 15 years, Santa Walt Queen has brought smiles to thousands of children, but now he faces one of his toughest battles.
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Louisville Codes and Regulations has said they are having issues following up on violations due to COVID and staffing issues.
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Our informant said what’s going on there is worse than a crime. He said it’s profiting off of someone’s disease.
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WAVE 3 News showed up at the home to ask some questions and found used syringes and their orange caps.
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Stewart Pope of the Legal Aid Society explained what landlords who witness alleged criminal destruction of their property should do.
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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.
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It sounds like a tragedy, but Kate Nason thought otherwise, instead choosing to push through her pain.
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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.
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One hand couldn’t keep Chance Anthony from catching touchdowns, but one hand is keeping him from catching criminals.
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The DEA Heroin Investigation Team claimed since 2017, it has reviewed 435 overdose cases, initiated 27 investigations, and prosecuted 46 people.
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Metro Council President David James has a problem, and no ordinance, zoning change, or task force can help him.
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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.
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Getting to the doctor should be the easiest part of healthcare, but for many in Indiana, it has become the toughest.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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He became known as the “bogus beggar” through his fake panhandling act all over Kentucky.
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The grand jury recording of the state’s presentation of the Breonna Taylor case was released Friday.
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“Seeing our beautiful downtown getting literally destroyed, man it’s just heartbreaking,” Youness Elmesyah said.
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A local pastor is accused of running a drug house at one of the Louisville properties he owns.
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A 6-year-old boy who loved to play basketball, Malachi Fryer didn’t know anything about guns.
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Eighty-year-old Mildred Thompson is still confused about what went down that day.
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After our second report, complaints about the shelter’s conditions ended in this weekend’s raid by state police.
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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.
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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.
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It started with the flicker of a light turned on at 1:27 a.m. on July 29. Half an hour later, sparks and flames flew, glittering more brightly than the jewelry all around the store. Hours later, their work was done.
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Randy Skaggs says he's strong enough to survive the criticism he gets as the person in charge of the Trixie Foundation in Elliott County.
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“It’s supposed to be a transition home,” a neighbor wrote, “but it's nothing more than a crack and heroin spot. All hours of the day and night there's constant flow of traffic to this location."
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The hardest part about going undercover for a story on panhandling is not being undercover enough for panhandlers.
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Perhaps more eerie than the silence during the police walk-through was the silence while workers were being shot, especially the guys trapped in the break room.
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The intersection of Dixie Highway and Hill Street was the site of WAVE 3 News' latest undercover Troubleshooter investigation.
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The face of Louisville's crackdown on illegal boarding and halfway houses could be seen at 541 Ormsby Avenue.
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After the historic disqualification in the Kentucky Derby, WAVE 3 News took a closer look at the rulings issued by Kentucky’s horse racing stewards.
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Thousands of Ironman participants say they're disappointed they won't get to run the full three legs of the race, but instead only two.
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From the wheels winding around outside the house, to the tabulations and terminology in the bills, utility consumption can cause power outages of the brain.
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West Buechel is a small part of town, but some of its residents are experiencing big problems with the city's efforts trying to clean up a property tax mess.
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A disgruntled worker who’d been vowing for a year to get even after being placed on disability walked in with a duffel bag full of guns. He went with the AK-47.
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It was hard to get answers the conventional way about what was going on at the corner of Peachtree and Sale.
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A 69-year-old Louisville man has run 100,000 miles in his lifetime and says he has no plans on stopping.
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Large, formerly abandoned houses, filled with 10 to 20 tenants, spilling out into the neighborhood, attracting prostitutes, severely impaired people, drug dealers doing transactions through car windows, and police officers responding to it all.
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For years, WAVE 3 News has reported the problems and complaints against Kentucky's Child Protection System.
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People come from all over North America to a church on Goldsmith Lane to be healed by holy water.
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When it comes to crime, no corner in Louisville stood out like Fourth Street and Winkler Avenue.