Alena Noakes

4 days ago | wave3.com | Alena Noakes

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Shirley Mae Beard died at the age of 85 in January, but her memory will not soon be forgotten. For decades, Shirley Mae owned and operated Shirley Mae’s Cafe out of a storefront in Smoketown. Aside from her soul food made from scratch, Mother Nature brought people together. She was known for her acts of service and advocacy. “She was a mother to the community. One of our customers called her Mother Nature, you know,” Mae’s son, Warren Simpson, said.

5 days ago | wave3.com | Alena Noakes

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - The family of a woman found shot to death near the Buechel neighborhood on Wednesday is calling into question LMPD’s missing person’s report protocol. Before her body was found, 49-year-old Latasha White was not heard from for 10 days. According to LMPD, the information they received “did not meet the criteria for a public alert. Police did not see any indication of a struggle at her home.

6 days ago | wave3.com | Alena Noakes

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - On Wednesday, LMPD released body camera video that have a first look at how LMPD officers responded to a moment of crisis for 55-year-old Daniel Gish. When officers arrived to the call on Lincoln Avenue on April 26, the man was intoxicated and distraught with a gun to his head. Officers pleaded with him to put the gun down, but Sgt. Kristopher Pedigo would eventually shoot Gish in the arm, stopping the threat to himself and others.

1 week ago | wave3.com | Alena Noakes

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - The Jackson County Public Library in Seymour is still closed to visitors a week after a shooting that injured one employee and endangered the lives of many others. Just before noon on Wednesday, police said Emiliano Cuevas-Bravo, 18 of Seymour, walked into the library armed with a Mossberg 500A shotgun he purchased on March 14, a pipe bomb and a backpack of supplies, intending to kill multiple, random library visitors.

1 week ago | wave3.com | Logan Perrone |Alena Noakes

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - By 5:30 p.m. Tuesday night, the line to get into Tuesday’s community meeting at the Cyril Allgeier Community Center, hosted by the non-profit Kentucky Tennis and Pickleball Inc., spanned hundreds of people and stretched out the building. The vast majority in that line showed up to voice their opposition to a $65 million dollar project proposal at Joe Creason Park for a complex with 54 indoor and outdoor courts, a restaurant, a health club, and more.