Mark Stevens

2 weeks ago | wbko.com | Mark Stevens

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Thousands of visitors are on the way here for the Kentucky Derby. Rental cars are selling out, limos and party buses are already pre-arranged. But the WAVE Troubleshooters found a lack of enforcement for limo companies operating without proper state authority. The state sent out nearly two dozen cease and desist letters to companies taking paid passengers in unregistered buses, limos, or taxis, but very little changed following those letters.

2 weeks ago | wave3.com | Mark Stevens

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Thousands of visitors are on the way here for the Kentucky Derby. Rental cars are selling out, limos and party buses are already pre-arranged. But the WAVE Troubleshooters found a lack of enforcement for limo companies operating without proper state authority. The state sent out nearly two dozen cease and desist letters to companies taking paid passengers in unregistered buses, limos, or taxis, but very little changed following those letters.

3 weeks ago | wave3.com | Mark Stevens

SCOTTSBURG, Ind. (WAVE) - Former Scott County Sheriff Kenneth Hughbanks is the sixth person charged with a crime stemming from the public corruption investigation into disgraced former Clark County Sheriff Jamey Noel. Noel’s payments to Hughbanks led investigators to his door. State auditors said Jamey Noel’s quarter million in payments to Hughbanks company with little supporting documentation was improper. They referred the case to criminal investigators.

4 weeks ago | wave3.com | Mark Stevens |Charles Gazaway

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - A man named in the investigation of former Clark County sheriff Jamey Noel has been arrested by Indiana State Police. Kenny Hughbanks, the former sheriff of Scott County, Indiana, was arrested this morning and taken to the Scott County Jail in Scottsburg. He is charged with one count of tax evasion. According to court documents, Hughbanks filed false state tax returns in 2019, 2020 and 2021 and or made a false statement in those tax returns all three years.

1 month ago | wbko.com | Mark Stevens

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - 61-year-old Charles Briscoe was killed Wednesday when he turned in front of an oncoming Louisville Metro police cruiser driven by Patrol Officer Alyssa Begel on Fern Valley Road. An eyewitness told WAVE the officer’s car did not have lights or sirens on. The officer was one of several responding to an ambulance crew which asked for police to come lights and sirens on shortly before nine Wednesday night.