Mary Jeffries is a longtime award-winning newscaster at WHAS Radio. After graduation from Western Kentucky University in 1981, she worked two years at radio stations in Eminence and Elizabethtown. She joined the news department of WHAS Radio in 1983 as a reporter. She later became assistant news director. Jefferies received two Peabody Awards—one for a documentary about schizophrenia, another about Louisville’s House of Ruth, which ministers to women who have AIDS. She also won two national Associated Press awards, two Headliner Awards, two Scripps-Howard Awards, two national awards from the Radio-Television News Directors Association, one for best large market newscast in the nation, and two Gabriels. She produced numerous in-depth documentaries about a variety of topics and covered top local stories, including such varied events as the Carollton bus crash and the court-martial of a Louisville Marine given a new trial after being found guilty of assaulting the wife of a fellow Marine. She now anchors late afternoon newscasts.