Kaitlin Rust
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Kaitlin Rust joined the Fox 8 News team in November 2020 as a reporter.
Born and raised in New Jersey, Kaitlin is enjoying her trek around the United States.
She's back down in the Bayou State after spending almost three years in Louisville, Kentucky reporting for Fox 8’s sister station WAVE 3.
Kaitlin started her career in Lake Charles after graduating from Rider University with a major in Digital Media and a minor in Political Science.
Obsessed with animals and music, Kaitlin can often be found spending time with her rabbit and two dogs or out dancing at a show.
She's excited to be in New Orleans and would love to tell your stories!
Feel free to email her with any ideas or just to say hello.
Updated: Aug. 26, 2022 at 7:24 AM EDT
|By Kaitlin Rust and Gray News staff
Damage from Hurricane Ida pushed the long-neglected building to the edge of collapse
Updated: Jul. 1, 2022 at 6:59 PM EDT
|By Kaitlin Rust and Jordan Gartner
Police are investigating a deadly shooting in New Orleans that took the life of a National Guard member.
Updated: Jun. 28, 2022 at 11:20 PM EDT
|By Natasha Robin and Kaitlin Rust
Casandra Jones considered filing a restraining order against the man who ended up brutally killing her.
Updated: May. 31, 2022 at 7:42 PM EDT
|By Jesse Brooks, Kaitlin Rust and Andrew McMunn
The body of a man that went missing after a boat capsized at a Louisiana lake on Memorial Day has been recovered and identified according to authorities.
Updated: May. 3, 2022 at 11:38 PM EDT
|By Jesse Brooks, Kaitlin Rust and FOX 8 Staff
The Natchez Steamboat has sustained fire damage.
Updated: Apr. 5, 2022 at 10:23 AM EDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
Although he still has to replace his window, he came up with a deterrent that chased away the would-be thief Friday night.
Updated: Feb. 1, 2022 at 2:34 PM EST
|By Kaitlin Rust and Gray News staff
It’s an eye-opener for some neighbors, but for many, this has been a fear for a while.
Updated: Dec. 2, 2021 at 9:53 AM EST
|By Jesse Brooks, Kaitlin Rust and Gray News staff
The victim, Jonshel Alexander, 22, was around 11 years old when she was cast in Benh Zeitlin’s low-budget yet visually stunning full-length motion picture filmed in Montegut and areas around Terrebonne Parish.
Updated: Jul. 24, 2021 at 12:06 AM EDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
It was about an hour before this grocery store delivery driver was able to call her mother back to tell her she was not the one in front of the gun.
Updated: Jul. 16, 2021 at 8:47 AM EDT
|By Kaitlin Rust and Gray News staff
An Uber driver was robbed at gunpoint by his own passenger Monday night next to Pontchartrain Park, and it briefly cost the driver his job.
Updated: Nov. 14, 2020 at 12:08 AM EST
|By Kaitlin Rust
Chef Edward Lee saw a recent report that 8 million people are slipping into poverty because of the pandemic and decided to get to work.
Updated: Nov. 13, 2020 at 12:08 AM EST
|By Kaitlin Rust
LMPD’s impound lot has been a thorn in the department’s side for years.
Updated: Nov. 12, 2020 at 1:14 AM EST
|By Kaitlin Rust
Last minute changes to an ordinance creating the review board and inspector general had some Metro Council members fuming after five months of hard work and community input.
Updated: Nov. 11, 2020 at 12:53 AM EST
|By Kaitlin Rust
The Government Oversight Committee pressed city officials on how Elliott Avenue came to be the focus of several different departments.
Updated: Nov. 10, 2020 at 12:19 AM EST
|By Kaitlin Rust
Cameron is one of 10 Republican attorneys general across the nation urging the Supreme Court to take up the case.
Updated: Nov. 6, 2020 at 11:20 PM EST
|By Kaitlin Rust
The margins are narrowing, but President Donald Trump continues suing to stop the count in states where he’s ahead, while questioning legal votes in states where he’s behind.
Updated: Nov. 6, 2020 at 12:05 AM EST
|By Kaitlin Rust
Wednesday had the highest number of hospitalizations since the pandemic started for Indiana.
Updated: Nov. 5, 2020 at 12:30 AM EST
|By Kaitlin Rust
For those who feel like their vote doesn’t count, some argue this presidential election disproves that.
Updated: Nov. 2, 2020 at 10:50 PM EST
|By Kaitlin Rust
Though Halloween is over, not knowing who did this or why continues to haunt the Acrees.
Updated: Oct. 31, 2020 at 11:45 PM EDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
The exciting Halloween wasn't stopped by COVID-19.
Updated: Oct. 31, 2020 at 1:11 AM EDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
Judge Brian Edwards' revealed Friday that thousands of signatures on a petition against the tax increase were either duplicates or inaccurate and suggesting tampering.
Updated: Oct. 30, 2020 at 12:06 AM EDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
Even though the states border one another, each state has its own way of determining what counties are red zones.
Updated: Oct. 24, 2020 at 2:18 AM EDT
|By Kaitlin Rust, Shellie Sylvestri and Charles Gazaway
The shooting happened outside of the Free Hype Shop.
Updated: Oct. 22, 2020 at 11:52 PM EDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
The ordinance passed 15-10. All seven Republicans were joined by three Democrats in voting no.
Updated: Oct. 22, 2020 at 12:02 AM EDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
LMPD Interim Chief Yvette Gentry testified to the Metro Council Public Safety Committee that the ordinance would take away flexibility that is needed with ever-changing policy.
Updated: Oct. 21, 2020 at 12:32 AM EDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
“There’s days I just want to give up and there’s other days, like, if I don’t fight, who is going to fight for him besides his family?” his mother questioned.
Updated: Oct. 19, 2020 at 11:55 PM EDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
A motion requesting to keep the evidence against former LMPD Detective Brett Hankison away from the public’s eye was jointly filed Thursday.
Updated: Oct. 16, 2020 at 12:58 AM EDT
|By John P. Wise and Kaitlin Rust
A person found a pile of discarded USPS mail, including 112 absentee ballots for the upcoming election, on Thursday.
Updated: Oct. 15, 2020 at 12:14 AM EDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
It’s been debated and tweaked for weeks before being struck down with a 4-3 vote.
Updated: Oct. 12, 2020 at 11:49 PM EDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
Amendment 1 would provide greater constitutional rights for crime victims in the state, while Amendment 2 deals with term limits for Commonwealth’s attorneys and district court judges.
Updated: Oct. 10, 2020 at 12:16 AM EDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
Seven months after her son was killed by police, a mother finally got answers in the most unlikely of places: the Breonna Taylor case files.
Updated: Oct. 8, 2020 at 11:37 PM EDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
Attorney General Daniel Cameron chose to not make the warrant a part of his case, deferring that part of the investigation to the FBI.
Updated: Oct. 8, 2020 at 11:23 AM EDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
An LMPD detective explains seeing Taylor's ex-boyfriend Jamarcus Glover walk into her apartment empty-handed and come out with a package.
Updated: Sep. 30, 2020 at 11:38 PM EDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
Committee Chair Jessica Green cut a piece out and tabled it so that incoming Interim LMPD Chief Yvette Gentry gets to provide input as outgoing Interim Chief Robert Schroeder did.
Updated: Sep. 30, 2020 at 12:27 AM EDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
“I can say my customers have been phenomenal. Best in town," Joe Bishop said.
Updated: Sep. 29, 2020 at 12:15 AM EDT
|By John P. Wise and Kaitlin Rust
Twice in recent months, Schroeder and Public Safety Chief Amy Hess appealed subpoenas requiring them to testify before the committee. They said they’d testify in executive session but not in an open-court environment.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2020 at 7:31 PM EDT
|By Shellie Sylvestri and Kaitlin Rust
WAVE 3 News reporter Kaitlin Rust and photographer James Dobson had to be escorted away and shielded by a security guard in Jefferson Square Park after being confronted by protesters Wednesday evening.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2020 at 12:24 AM EDT
|By John P. Wise, Mike Fussell, Kaitlin Rust and Shellie Sylvestri
LMPD Sgt. Jon Mattingly, one of three officers involved in the Breonna Taylor shooting death, confirmed to WAVE 3 News that he sent a strongly-worded email to his department colleagues early Tuesday morning.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2020 at 11:29 PM EDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
In a statement, UPS called the incident "disturbing."
Updated: Sep. 19, 2020 at 12:25 AM EDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
An order was signed off on by a judge Friday morning, closing federal buildings in Louisville Monday through Friday.
Updated: Sep. 17, 2020 at 11:40 PM EDT
|By Shellie Sylvestri, Brett Martin, Maira Ansari and Kaitlin Rust
LMPD found the torso of the victim around 2 p.m. on Wednesday in a park in Clifton Heights.
Updated: Sep. 16, 2020 at 5:38 AM EDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
WAVE 3 News' legal expert breaks down how a settlement is reached before criminal proceedings are finished.
Updated: Sep. 11, 2020 at 11:50 PM EDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
The stands at Spencer County High School were a bit bare for Friday night football, only filled at about 20% capacity, but that doesn’t mean the support wasn’t there.
Updated: Sep. 11, 2020 at 12:15 AM EDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
Some experts say a negative test result might be inaccurate if a person is tested too soon.
Updated: Sep. 10, 2020 at 12:35 AM EDT
|By Brett Martin and Kaitlin Rust
The Crusader was left on the doorsteps on multiple homes.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2020 at 12:32 AM EDT
|By Shellie Sylvestri and Kaitlin Rust
Interim Louisville Metro Police Chief Robert Schroeder and public safety director Amy Hess will have to testify before Metro Council about recent events surrounding protests and riots in the city and LMPD’s response.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2020 at 12:07 AM EDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
Over 20 years moving up the ranks at LMPD before retiring, combined with her social service work in recent years, have many saying Gentry is the perfect fit.
Updated: Sep. 6, 2020 at 12:57 AM EDT
|By Brett Martin, Jerrica Valtierra, Faith King and Kaitlin Rust
A pandemic and civil unrest marked the most unusual "most exciting two minutes in sports".
Updated: Sep. 3, 2020 at 11:23 PM EDT
|By Kaitlin Rust
The song is not about the famous brick house in Bardstown.
Updated: Sep. 2, 2020 at 11:53 PM EDT
|By Sarah Jackson and Kaitlin Rust
Hauck’s Handy Shop was a staple in the Schnitzelburg neighborhood. The store opened its doors in 1912 and was sold in January 2019.
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