Sean Baute
Multi-media journalist
Louisville, KY
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Sean joined the WAVE News team in March 2019 as a multimedia journalist and reporter.
He currently reports for WAVE News Midday, WAVE News at 3 and 4.
He previously worked as an anchor and reporter at Gray TV sister station WBKO in Bowling Green, KY.
Sean has spent his entire life in Kentucky. He grew up in the Northern Kentucky city of Villa Hills.
He attended the University of Kentucky and moved to Bowling Green upon graduation. He spent nearly three years there before finding his way to Louisville.
Sean is a huge sports fan, cheering for the Cincinnati Reds, Cincinnati Bengals, and Kentucky Wildcats.
Updated: Jan. 24, 2023 at 9:38 PM EST
|By Sean Baute
The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) in Louisville is live again ahead of the April 18 tax deadline.
Updated: Jan. 18, 2023 at 9:37 AM EST
|By Dustin Vogt and Sean Baute
Around 8:15 a.m., police responded to reports of a pedestrian struck at Louis Coleman Jr. Drive and Dumesnil Street.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2023 at 4:38 PM EST
|By Sean Baute
As the CDC warns of measles outbreaks in parts of the country, Jefferson County Public Schools are offering pop-up vaccine clinics for students who aren’t immunized.
Updated: Jan. 12, 2023 at 10:23 AM EST
|By WAVE Staff and Sean Baute
The $45 million investment will create 80-full time jobs.
Updated: Jan. 11, 2023 at 6:05 PM EST
|By Sean Baute
Tevin D. Smyzer, 20, and Justyn D. Walls, 19, are charged with murder for the death of 19-year-old Eric Williams.
Updated: Jan. 10, 2023 at 10:50 PM EST
|By Sean Baute
”I wanted people to remember him for who he was because the whole time I knew him,” he said. “All I ever heard was good things about him."
Updated: Jan. 10, 2023 at 10:59 AM EST
|By Sean Baute and WAVE Staff
Stretch Zone Louisville says it can help you move around efficiently in life.
Updated: Jan. 9, 2023 at 7:16 AM EST
|By Sean Baute and WAVE Staff
That’s what Maya Bagels Express wants it’s customers to know when they stop by.
Updated: Jan. 5, 2023 at 5:04 PM EST
|By Sean Baute
Lance Bowman was sentenced Thursday to 50 years in prison for the murder of James Mentee back in December 2019.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2023 at 5:18 PM EST
|By Sean Baute
The Middletown Police Department said a mail carrier for the United States Postal Service (USPS) was robbed at gunpoint on Dec. 29.
Updated: Dec. 22, 2022 at 6:53 PM EST
|By Sean Baute
Here are the tips needed to make sure drivers and homeowners are prepared for the storm.
Updated: Dec. 21, 2022 at 4:34 PM EST
|By Sean Baute
Inside the Chestnut Street YMCA on Wednesday, 300 kids got the chance to celebrate Christmas a little early this year.
Updated: Dec. 19, 2022 at 4:20 PM EST
|By Sean Baute
The Russell neighborhood has been the recipient of a lot financial and emotional support in recent years, but there’s still more coming.
Updated: Dec. 16, 2022 at 6:57 PM EST
|By Sean Baute
Andrew Hoke has spent the last few months in jail, he's staying there now a little longer after violating probation.
Updated: Dec. 15, 2022 at 5:27 PM EST
|By Sean Baute
As part of a school project at Norton Commons Elementary, Camden was supposed to include community service.
Updated: Dec. 14, 2022 at 5:01 PM EST
|By Sean Baute
Andrew Hoke appeared before a judge Wednesday, accused of hitting another man in the head with the claw end of a hammer near Fourth Street Live back in January.
Updated: Dec. 13, 2022 at 11:00 PM EST
|By Sean Baute
The Family Scholar House helps single parents further their educational and career goals while preventing disruption in their children’s life.
Updated: Dec. 12, 2022 at 4:30 PM EST
|By Sean Baute
Lissette Vazquez, a single mother of six, can keep her kids close together now too.
Updated: Dec. 10, 2022 at 3:00 PM EST
|By Sean Baute
Beyond the physical damage left behind, the emotional toll it’s taken has been as devastating.
Updated: Dec. 9, 2022 at 3:10 PM EST
|By Sean Baute
Small towns across the region are still feeling the affects; many of them will never be the same.
Updated: Dec. 8, 2022 at 8:24 PM EST
|By Sean Baute
This weekend will mark one year since deadly tornados ripped through parts of Western Kentucky, killing dozens.
Updated: Dec. 5, 2022 at 6:04 PM EST
|By Sean Baute
The nearly $6 billion Ford and SK innovation are putting toward it is the largest economic development in the history of Kentucky.
Updated: Dec. 1, 2022 at 1:20 PM EST
|By Charles Gazaway, Dustin Vogt and Sean Baute
The victim was shot multiple times on the night of October 22 and died six days later.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2022 at 4:28 PM EST
|By Sean Baute
The Salvation Army’s holiday programs are going strong, but there’s more that can be done.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2022 at 4:18 PM EST
|By Sean Baute
If it seems to good to be true, it probably is.
Updated: Nov. 23, 2022 at 5:16 PM EST
|By Sean Baute
Organizations across Louisville have a couple of activities lined up to keep your kids engaged while on break from school.
Updated: Nov. 22, 2022 at 4:29 PM EST
|By Sean Baute
The excursion is a 1.1 mile drive through the cave that has over six million colored lights.
Updated: Nov. 21, 2022 at 11:12 AM EST
|By WAVE Staff and Sean Baute
It's the second one in just the last year.
Updated: Nov. 18, 2022 at 3:22 PM EST
|By Sean Baute
At Jefferson Family Court, the 26 adoptions meant permanent homes for more than 30 children.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2022 at 5:11 PM EST
|By Sean Baute
This year, like many years before organizations are doing what they can to help people in Louisville make ends meet.
Updated: Nov. 11, 2022 at 4:06 PM EST
|By Sean Baute
Louisville Mayor-elect Craig Greenberg has laid out plans for when he takes office at the start of the new year.
Updated: Nov. 10, 2022 at 4:02 PM EST
|By Sean Baute
Louisville Metro Public Works walked through this year’s plans for potential snowfall.
Updated: Nov. 4, 2022 at 9:10 PM EDT
|By Dustin Vogt and Sean Baute
The race for Kentucky’s U.S. Senate seat has two opponents with drastically different viewpoints facing off.
Updated: Nov. 4, 2022 at 7:18 PM EDT
|By Dustin Vogt and Sean Baute
There’s been a rise in sicknesses that have kept students out of class at Community Montessori for the past two days.
Updated: Nov. 3, 2022 at 6:50 PM EDT
|By Dustin Vogt and Sean Baute
After years of awaiting unknown punishments, University of Louisville fans are breathing a small sigh of relief following a long awaited ruling.
Updated: Nov. 2, 2022 at 3:50 PM EDT
|By Sean Baute
The fire department said working smoke alarms were “essential in alarming sleeping guests.”
Updated: Nov. 1, 2022 at 3:50 PM EDT
|By Sean Baute
At Pleasure Ridge Park High School, the welding academy shares a special relationship with a Louisville business trying to fill open positions with qualified employees.
Updated: Oct. 25, 2022 at 3:57 PM EDT
|By Sean Baute
Each student was given the chance to see, first-hand, what the school can offer them in their next step.
Updated: Oct. 24, 2022 at 4:32 PM EDT
|By Sean Baute
Taking instructional time away from students may seem counterintuitive, but Prosser Career Education Center believes it could just the day that jump starts their future.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2022 at 4:11 PM EDT
|By Sean Baute
For a couple hours, at $2.07 per gallon, a handful of drivers filled up with the cheapest gas in Louisville Thursday.
Updated: Oct. 19, 2022 at 5:52 PM EDT
|By Sean Baute
Both men pleaded guilty earlier this year to conspiracy to violate civil rights.
Updated: Oct. 18, 2022 at 4:40 PM EDT
|By Sean Baute
Mental health professionals say even before the COVID-19 pandemic, anxiety and depression among teens was on the rise.
Updated: Oct. 14, 2022 at 4:51 PM EDT
|By Sean Baute
The group is focusing on ending the stigma around mental health for men of color.
Updated: Oct. 13, 2022 at 4:20 PM EDT
|By Sean Baute
A judge sentenced Thomas Smith to 25 years in prison Thursday in Clark Circuit Court for the death of Michelle Slaughter in 2021.
Updated: Oct. 12, 2022 at 4:25 PM EDT
|By Sean Baute
Breonna Taylor’s family sat down in one place for the first on-camera interview they’ve had all together.
Updated: Oct. 10, 2022 at 4:51 PM EDT
|By Sean Baute
Thousands of students in JCPS graduate every semester, but last year only about five enrolled at JCTC’s work and learning programs.
Updated: Oct. 6, 2022 at 4:27 PM EDT
|By Sean Baute
Rob Orkies and Garry Key died just three months apart,
Updated: Oct. 5, 2022 at 4:17 PM EDT
|By Sean Baute
They’re a group of mostly men, that surprise students at different schools throughout the school year.
Updated: Oct. 4, 2022 at 4:45 PM EDT
|By Sean Baute
Activists say the jail's health care provider is providing inadequate services.
Updated: Oct. 3, 2022 at 5:28 PM EDT
|By Sean Baute
His 18-year-old son Cameron said despite the inherent risks, he wants to follow his father’s footsteps and become a firefighter.
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