Shellie Sylvestri
Digital Content Manager
Louisville, Ky.
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Shellie Sylvestri joined the WAVE 3 News team in November of 2019 as a digital journalist. Before coming to the Commonwealth, she was a news anchor and producer in Monroe, Louisiana from 2016 to 2019. Shellie is passionate about writing, art, fashion, shelter animals and sports. She is an avid New Orleans Saints fan. Who Dat!
Updated: Jun. 3, 2022 at 3:56 PM EDT
|By Shellie Sylvestri
PETA is angry that Harlow’s video for “Churchill Downs” glamorizes the horseracing industry.
Updated: May. 26, 2022 at 11:37 PM EDT
|By Shellie Sylvestri and Gray News Staff
The Louisville Metro Police Department has released body camera footage from an LMPD officer that shows what happened when Omari Cryer was shot by a U.S. Marshal on May 20 on Sutcliffe Avenue.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 4:02 PM EDT
|By Shellie Sylvestri and Jordan Gartner
Authorities in Louisville are investigating a drug bust where officials said they found enough narcotics to wipe out the entire city of Los Angeles.
Updated: May. 9, 2022 at 6:46 PM EDT
|By Shellie Sylvestri
The Corps is currently working with the Kentucky Heritage Council and the Kentucky State Historic Preservation Office, as well as assumed family members, to determine where to relocate the unmarked cemetery.
Updated: May. 4, 2022 at 5:00 PM EDT
|By David Mattingly and Shellie Sylvestri
"Somebody’s out to destroy me and this is not right," Baffert said in calls recorded by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission.
Updated: Apr. 26, 2022 at 11:38 AM EDT
|By Shellie Sylvestri and Gray News staff
The recalled brands include Nature’s Reserve, SEG, Thomas Farms, Tajima Beef Patties and Marketside Butcher wagyu beef.
Updated: Apr. 5, 2022 at 12:41 PM EDT
|By Shellie Sylvestri
A sophisticated DNA analysis of crime scene samples performed by Indiana State Police and the FBI tied Harry Greenwell to the murders.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2022 at 6:54 PM EST
|By Shellie Sylvestri
Medina Spirit’s Kentucky Derby win has been invalidated “and all purse money forfeited,” according to Monday’s ruling by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission.
Updated: Jan. 18, 2022 at 8:42 PM EST
|By Shellie Sylvestri and Andrew McMunn
Seven UPS employees in Louisville have been charged with being involved in organized crime and concealing jewelry boxes during their shifts.
Updated: Dec. 11, 2021 at 8:31 PM EST
|By Shellie Sylvestri and Mark Stevens
There were around 100 workers working at a Mayfield candle factory at the time the tornado hit the town of 9,800. Only 40 people had been rescued as of early Saturday morning.
Updated: Nov. 18, 2021 at 3:17 PM EST
|By Shellie Sylvestri
Sara McQuilling is facing six criminal charges: two counts of murder, two counts of abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence and theft.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2021 at 7:20 AM EDT
|By Shellie Sylvestri and Gray News staff
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has been suspended from YouTube after making controversial comments about COVID-19 and masks in a video last week.
Updated: Jul. 30, 2021 at 7:04 PM EDT
|By Shellie Sylvestri
Kroger is requesting that any employee or visitor — vaccinated or not — wear masks while inside stores following a recent surge of COVID-19 Delta variant cases.
Updated: Jul. 8, 2021 at 9:59 AM EDT
|By Shellie Sylvestri, Elizabeth Pace and Gray News staff
A restaurant owner paid back his hard-working employees by paying for a trip to Las Vegas.
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