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.
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The BlueOval SK Battery Park is expected to add 5,000 new jobs to the Elizabethtown/Hardin County workforce.
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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.
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Andrew and Christel Clooney were both sentenced to 33 and 27 months in prison, respectively, for defrauding two dozen clients.
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One of the award winners teaches in JCPS and is also a Louisville Metro Council member.
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They gathered at the First Responders Remembrance Plaza to remember those who lost their lives during the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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The seven story expansion will create up to 360 rooms for patients, alleviating capacity problems.
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Marc Hibel was jailed back in July, charged with wanton endangerment and burglary.
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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.
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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.
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The incident happened at the new Arvato facility on South Preston Highway.
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More than 3,000 students moved to campus this week, part of the largest incoming class of freshmen ever for the university.
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The governor's proposed education budget comes one day after GOP gubernatorial candidate Daniel Cameroon laid out some his own ideas.
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According to JCPS around 1 in 5 students is not up to date on vaccinations.
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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.
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The new school will be built right alongside the current Wilson Elementary. It could take up to two years to finish.
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Brayden Tapp’s first experience taking a school bus ended with him all alone at the wrong bus stop.
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Two of the tornados had winds up to 100 mph.
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The iconic courthouse looks to be in good shape, but business owners on the same block are busy piecing their livelihoods back together.
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Perry Elementary is offering an entirely new educational experience.
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The newest JCPS school is named after a late Louisville civil rights activist.
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Bourbon is a $9 billion industry in Kentucky, and Heaven Hill is responsible for a large part of it.
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In total, four people have been arrested and several AR-style guns were recovered by police.
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The DuPont Manual High School boy’s soccer team canceled practice Wednesday evening as the heat index approached levels the KHSAA deems unsafe.
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From elementary to the high school level, students spent the first day getting back into the swing of things.
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The bus that picks students up will no longer always be the same one that brings them home.
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A contest through the planning office, sponsored by AARP’s Community Challenge Grant, is seeking designs for pre-approved accessory dwelling units.
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Seaman First Class Elmer P. Lawrence was among the more than 2,000 people killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Jonathan Balderas is charged with three charges of sexual abuse.
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The Second Stride program located at Chorleywood Farm in Oldham County is retraining, rehabilitating and rehoming Kentucky’s race horses.
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The Save-A-Lot grocery store in Louisville’s Portland neighborhood has finished renovations.
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Katrina Crume gave birth Wednesday to her third child: Phoebe Dawn Calloway.
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They’re raising money for the families of officers killed in the line of duty.
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The shooting happened after a fight broke out between Porter's stepdaughter and the woman's daughter.
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David Knopp was in a shootout with police and killed Dash, an SPD K-9.
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The Food and Drug Administration recently approved Leqembi, a drug that could slow the cognitive decline of Alzheimer’s patients.
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The man responsible for the death of his girlfriend’s four-year-old daughter in Bullitt County appeared in court Thursday.
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The Crescent Hill Community Council is sponsoring a competition to end gun violence in Louisville.
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Bullitt County is one of eight counties nationwide to receive a High Intensity Drug Tracking Area designation this year.
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The summer travel burst expected this summer, especially ahead of the Fourth of July, is making airports take necessary steps to keep the delays from getting worse.
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LMPD said the thieves are finding ways to make the stolen cars look more legitimate.
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Significant damage was reported in several locations in southern Indiana and central Kentucky.
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Randy Lankford accepted a plea deal that would keep him out of prison. On Friday, the judge in his case accepted the deal.
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The new complex at St. Stephen Church would host community events, including Simmons College basketball games, which are already held at the current church’s gym.
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The newest addition to the Kentucky Derby Museum is finished.
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The Geek Squad taught students how to use those skills for a future in STEM, or science, technology, engineering and math fields.
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Ben Sandusky killed his step-father, 77-year-old Art Brown, in October 2020. He also put a gun to his mother’s head, but it jammed.
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Cali Des Ruisseaux was friends with Nathan. She created another fundraiser to help the scholarship fund.
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The Louisville Water Tower is the oldest ornamental water tower in the United States.
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A 24-year-old man has been charged with murder in connection to a crash in the Irish Hill neighborhood early Sunday morning that killed one man and injured five other people.
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