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: 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.
Updated: Mar. 10, 2020 at 10:08 PM EDT
|By John Boel
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.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2020 at 8:43 PM EST
|By John Boel
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.
Updated: Feb. 4, 2020 at 7:30 PM EST
|By John Boel
“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."
Updated: Jan. 14, 2020 at 6:37 PM EST
|By John Boel
The hardest part about going undercover for a story on panhandling is not being undercover enough for panhandlers.
Updated: Dec. 19, 2019 at 6:23 PM EST
|By John Boel
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.
Updated: Dec. 3, 2019 at 4:32 PM EST
|By John Boel
The intersection of Dixie Highway and Hill Street was the site of WAVE 3 News' latest undercover Troubleshooter investigation.
Updated: Nov. 12, 2019 at 5:04 PM EST
|By John Boel
The face of Louisville's crackdown on illegal boarding and halfway houses could be seen at 541 Ormsby Avenue.
Updated: Oct. 29, 2019 at 5:31 PM EDT
|By John Boel
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.
Updated: Oct. 11, 2019 at 5:04 PM EDT
|By John Boel
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.
Updated: Oct. 8, 2019 at 6:03 PM EDT
|By John Boel
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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