Sean Baute
Multi-media journalist
Louisville, KY
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.
The bus crashed near Highway 44 West at Weavers Run after the driver reportedly saw a deer and swerved to avoid it, leaving the bus stuck in a ditch.
Nathan Smith’s team from Elizabethtown High School pitched a plan to recycle plastic waste from businesses across the county and turn it into spools of 3D printing filament to be used to make different kinds of recycled products.
Davone Briggs returned to the courtroom Wednesday in for the second day of trial.
JCPS nurses and medical staff were on hand Friday to vaccinate for chickenpox and up to six other diseases.
The last and final steel beam was placed at New Veterans Affairs Medical Center under construction on Brownsboro Road.
The presentation submitted by interim chief operations officer Rob Fulk highlights how the district is looking at transportation heading into the next calendar year.
While it’s important to have AEDs in schools, it’s far more likely those being trained will use what they’ve learned in their own day-to-day life.
Emily Hughes, a registered nurse at Norton Health, struggled with seizures caused by epilepsy early in life.
Washington Circuit Court Judge Larry Medlock sentenced Dawn Coleman to 30 years in prison with five years suspended.
When the casino started, there was no hotel and the games were all on a boat.
34 children completed the final phase of the adoption process in Louisville Friday.
The remains of Army Private First Class Charles Wells of Leitchfield, Kentucky were laid to rest Thursday at Kentucky Veterans Cemetery Central in Radcliff.
The Salvation Army is starting up its Red Kettle Campaign, which means they’re looking for hundreds of volunteers in Louisville to help fill the 25,000 hours of bell ringing that makes up the campaign.
It’s a problem that’s been ongoing for more than a century, but residents say it’s getting worse and it’s affecting their health.
Just one day after announcing his re-election campaign, Congressman Morgan McGarvey hosted veterans and their loved ones for a breakfast and a Q&A.
The district said families of students can expect transportation delays.
It seems surreal. Ten babies in about 10 months for 10 mothers delivering their babies in the same place they deliver other babies.
The race for Charlestown Mayor comes down to Incumbent Treva Hodges and the challenger, Ruthie Jackson.
A new lawsuit filed by the FTC claims Amazon is breaking anti trust laws through actions that allow them to “degrade quality for shoppers, overcharge sellers, and stifle innovation.”
David Kennedy, 33, is charged with 15 counts of wanton endangerment.
Cherok Douglass told the judge he wanted whatever sentence the victims’ families asked for
The superintendent said there are more than 200 staffing vacancies across the school district.
TKO Parkinson’s is a free program hosted three days a week in Louisville that provides an exercise outlet for those living with the disease.
The Summit Wellness Center is a one-of-a-kind facility for Louisville’s police officers and first responders.
Initially, the Applegate Lane house was set to be burned down by the city, but the EPA opted to demolish the house instead.
GE Appliances has partnered with JCPS to put a washer and dryer in each school in the district.
Harris was already looking at 15 years in prison coming into the courtroom with he only question being whether the new sentence would be served concurrently or consecutively with the previous sentences.
Father Terry said he and the parishioners made their way to Jordan, where they await a flight out of the region.
UPS is hiring roughly 100,000 part-time employees nationwide ahead of their busiest time of the year.
UofL Health officially opened its doors Tuesday to what they’re calling a ‘fast-track’ wing of their emergency department in Shepherdsville.
It’s not his first run-in with the law, nor the first time he’s been accused of murder.
Dr. Kim Schatzel was inaugurated as UofL’s 19th president on Friday.
Nearly eight years after being named a suspect, Crystal’s boyfriend at the time of her disappearance has been charged with her murder.
Wawa will look to add around 40 stores between the Lexington and Louisville areas over the course of the next decade.
Arthur Simson, 38, allegedly turned himself into police and admitted to shooting.
The BlueOval SK Battery Park is expected to add 5,000 new jobs to the Elizabethtown/Hardin County workforce.
Construction along Main Street in New Albany has been going on for a little over a year. The project included wider sidewalks, safer parking and slower traffic.
Andrew and Christel Clooney were both sentenced to 33 and 27 months in prison, respectively, for defrauding two dozen clients.
One of the award winners teaches in JCPS and is also a Louisville Metro Council member.
They gathered at the First Responders Remembrance Plaza to remember those who lost their lives during the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The seven story expansion will create up to 360 rooms for patients, alleviating capacity problems.
Marc Hibel was jailed back in July, charged with wanton endangerment and burglary.
More than three million people in the United States will likely be diagnosed with skin cancer this year. That includes 45,000 people in Kentucky and 10,000 in Louisville.
Brittany Ricks has dealt with multiple sclerosis for the better part of a decade. When she woke up on June 7 with a debilitating headache she chalked it up to her existing condition.
The incident happened at the new Arvato facility on South Preston Highway.
More than 3,000 students moved to campus this week, part of the largest incoming class of freshmen ever for the university.
The governor's proposed education budget comes one day after GOP gubernatorial candidate Daniel Cameroon laid out some his own ideas.
According to JCPS around 1 in 5 students is not up to date on vaccinations.
Today was slated to be the start of the after school program the Neighborhood Place on North 25th Street, but when JCPS canceled classes for Monday and Tuesday, they needed to adjust.
