Tommy Witherspoon
KWTX Managing Editor
Waco, Texas
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Tommy Witherspoon is a longtime newspaper journalist who began his career at the Corsicana Daily Sun in 1980.
He worked 39 years at the Waco Tribune-Herald before joining the staff at KWTX as managing editor in March 2022.
Tommy is a native of Weatherford, Texas, and graduated from the University of North Texas with a journalism degree.
He has three sons.
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Police arrested a Waco man Thursday after his grandmother, his mother and another woman reported he assaulted them after he became irate at a Goodwill store.
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Ukwuachu, 30, who remains on felony probation, filed a writ of habeas corpus Thursday, alleging prosecutors used unsubstantiated phone records that left a false impression with the jury, abused the grand jury process by intimidating Ukwuachu’s roommate and that Ukwuachu’s attorney, Jonathan Sibley, provided ineffective legal assistance.
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Joseph Andrade was arrested on an aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charge.
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A McGregor man remains jailed after his arrest Tuesday on allegations he sexually abused a 4-year-old female family member.
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A transient with a history of mental health issues was arrested Tuesday after police say he resisted arrest and hit a police K-9 officer in the mouth with a shovel.
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Fifteen women who reported they were sexually assaulted while students at Baylor University have settled their federal lawsuits against the university, culminating a protracted scandal that tarnished the Baptist school’s image and led to the ousters of its disgraced head football coach and prominent president.
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The judge ordered a presentence report by probation officers, which he will review before sentencing.
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A Waco woman was jailed Thursday after authorities say she was drunk and crashed into two cars waiting in line to pick up school children.
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A McLennan County grand jury indicted Christopher Hundl, 38, and Daniel Savala, 67, each on one count of continuous trafficking of persons.
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Anderson, 78, would have been up for re-election in the March 2024 Republican primary.
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Prosecutor Will Hix said no one can be allowed to take the law into their own hands.
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A Waco man who forced a 12-year-old family member to perform sex acts on him in exchange for returning her cell phone was sentenced to prison.
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The girl, who was 11 at the time, testified during the second day of Cristina Marsh’s trial.
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Testimony got underway Monday in the trial of a former West woman charged with having inappropriate sexual relations with her boyfriend while his young family member watched.
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A Bellmead man remained jailed Friday after his arrest on five counts of possession of child pornography.
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McLennan County deer breeders Steven Wieser and Jason Chancey are suing the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department.
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Paxton sat between two of his 12 lawyers during the morning session. However, he was not present at the counsel table after the lunch break.
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The Texas attorney general’s office will retry Waco Attorney Seth Sutton in a murder-for-hire plot after Sutton’s trial ended in a mistrial.
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A 54th State District Court jury convicted Elijah Jamal Craven of murder Thursday.
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A friend of Elijah Jamal Craven testified Wednesday that Craven told him he shot someone.
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Judge Vicki Menard has spent the last 18 years refereeing acrimonious disputes between divorcing couples and deciding which parent will get custody of the children.
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Two murder trials are set to kick off Monday at the McLennan County Courthouse.
Elijah Jamal Craven is on trial in Waco’s 54th State District Court.
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A convicted murderer remains free on bond after his arrest Saturday on charges he violated a protective order by assaulting a Waco woman.
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One of two men who shot and killed Jatron Lavar Thomas in October 2020 was sentenced to 45 years in prison Friday.
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Convicted felon must be given credit for serving at least 20 years in prison before he can seek parole.
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A number of county employees are complaining about what they consider out-of-proportion salary increases for the county’s two chief executive officers.
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The McLennan County Jail inmate who died in custody May 25 died from natural causes, according to a final autopsy report.
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Joseph Scaramucci has directed a number of sting operations throughout Central Texas that led to the arrest of 660 sex buyers and the closure of a number of massage parlors.
A McLennan County jury on Friday failed to reach a verdict in the murder-fore-hire trial of Waco Attorney Seth Sutton.
The jury in Waco attorney Seth Sutton’s murder-for-hire trial should have Sutton’s fate in their hands before noon Friday.
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Seth Sutton is on trial on criminal solicitation of capital murder charges.
Sutton is charged with first-degree felony criminal solicitation of capital murder.
Seth Sutton is charged with solicitation of capital murder.
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Seth Sutton is charged with criminal solicitation of capital murder.
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The March 28 shooting happened in the 3300 block of Brookview Drive near S.J. Guthrie Park.
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Weiss is charged in the murders of Azariah Martinez, and her mother, Valarie Martinez.
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The man pulled a knife on his mom, punched her in the mouth and yanked out braids of her hair, police said.
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Tammy Renee Blankenship, a former school principal who worked at Midway schools, was set to stand trial Monday, Aug. 14.
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A Waco woman whose 2020 drunken driving crash killed the mother of four children was placed on felony probation.
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The lawsuit will seek more than $1 million in damages.
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The suit alleges the woman suffered facial injuries and an arm injury.
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The parents of a pre-K student who was sexually abused by a Lorena Primary School teacher during the 2020-2021 school year have filed a federal lawsuit against the Lorena school district and the primary school principal.
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The victim was shot after a brawl outside The Warehouse in downtown Waco.
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A Waco man who was charged with assaulting a pregnant woman in May 2020 was found guilty on one felony count and not guilty on two other felony counts Wednesday.
The victim testified Deotis Sanders-Gray punched her in the face while she attempted to break up a fight.
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A Waco grandmother, who police say was the first person out of her burning house, pleaded guilty to child endangerment charges.
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Testimony is set to begin Tuesday morning in the trial of a Waco man charged with assaulting a pregnant woman in May 2020.
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A Waco man named in a sealed indictment remains jailed after his arrest Saturday on a sexual assault charge.
Seth Sutton is set to stand trial Aug. 14 on a solicitation of capital murder charge.
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