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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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John Boel investigates after multiple reports of patients being dumped out of Louisville hospitals.
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A family dispute on a Shelby County ballfield during a high school baseball game led to something much bigger.
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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.
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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.
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"There was nothing in her apartment that was illegal."
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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.
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More than 500 light poles rendered useless because someone has been stealing the high grade copper wiring inside.
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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.
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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.
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Gary Thompson was jailed and chased out of places all around Kentucky and earned the nickname, “The Bogus Beggar.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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