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.
Waco man pleads guilty to sexually assaulting teen runaway; prosecutors recommend deferred probation
Updated: 9 hours ago
|By Tommy Witherspoon
A Waco man who sexually assaulted a 13-year-old runaway from East Texas in 2018 pleaded guilty to a first-degree felony charge on Tuesday.
Updated: May. 16, 2022 at 4:59 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
A Waco man remains jailed after police say he hit his live-in girlfriend in the face with a shoe and sexually assaulted her.
Updated: May. 13, 2022 at 6:03 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
A former Waco financial adviser facing claims by his former investment firm employer that he misappropriated more than $17 million from more than 20 customers has filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy protection.
Updated: May. 13, 2022 at 4:41 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
The teen, now 18 and identified in the lawsuit only as “John Doe,” is seeking unspecified damages.
Updated: May. 13, 2022 at 3:07 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
Waco police detectives continue to investigate the shooting death of a 22-month-old Waco girl and are trying to determine if the gun used to kill her was stolen out of Killeen.
Updated: May. 12, 2022 at 4:46 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
A Waco man jailed in March after police said he admitted to killing his wife and mother with a 20-gauge shotgun was indicted Thursday.
Updated: May. 11, 2022 at 5:25 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
David Henry and Amine Qourzal will likely square off again in a runoff for the Ward 1, Place 2 seat in Woodway.
Updated: May. 11, 2022 at 2:59 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
Judge granted man's request to attend granddaughter's graduation ceremony.
Updated: May. 10, 2022 at 3:14 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
A longtime Waco financial adviser is accused of misappropriating more than $17 million from at least 23 customers.
Updated: May. 9, 2022 at 4:03 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
McLennan County officials on Monday unsealed a two-count indictment against the suspect.
Updated: May. 6, 2022 at 3:28 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
The abuse came to light after school officials overheard children on the school bus talking about the incident.
Updated: May. 5, 2022 at 6:20 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
The forensic toxicologist and lab involved in evidence testing are under investigation by the Texas Forensic Science Commission.
Updated: May. 4, 2022 at 3:31 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
A jury on Wednesday found Andre Boyd guilty of aggravated robbery, aggravated assault against a peace officer and evading arrest in connection with an altercation at Waco’s Richland Mall.
Updated: May. 3, 2022 at 6:09 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
Prosecutors rested their case Tuesday evening after playing videos of the altercation for the jury from store surveillance cameras.
Updated: May. 2, 2022 at 5:47 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
A Waco man pleaded guilty Monday to sexually assaulting an 8-year-old family member in November 2015.
Updated: May. 2, 2022 at 4:19 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
The retrial of an Austin man charged with stealing clothes at Richland Mall and injuring an off-duty police officer while trying to escape kicked off Monday in Waco’s 19th State District Court.
Updated: Apr. 29, 2022 at 5:29 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
The civil rights cases of about 90 bikers arrested in the 2015 Twin Peaks shootout were thrown out by a U.S. district judge.
Updated: Apr. 29, 2022 at 1:10 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
The woman was fired as a jailer after her indictment in July 2018, which was the result of a Texas Ranger investigation into excessive force allegations.
Updated: Apr. 28, 2022 at 4:36 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
A Denton man was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday for smuggling four migrants into the country in November 2018.
Updated: Apr. 28, 2022 at 4:05 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
Man allegedly admitted he would have killed U.S. Marshals if he had a “clean shot.”
Updated: Apr. 28, 2022 at 1:58 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
A Waco man shot by a bystander after police say he repeatedly stabbed a woman at a convenience store in January was indicted on a murder charge Thursday.
Updated: Apr. 27, 2022 at 12:26 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
Chip and Joanna Gaines are converting the former newspaper building into headquarters for the burgeoning Magnolia empire.
Updated: Apr. 22, 2022 at 5:03 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
Five Waco attorneys are seeking appointment as judge of a newly created state district court.
Updated: Apr. 22, 2022 at 2:50 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
A Dallas-area man who wounded a sleeping woman after he fired a gun into several homes in the Axtell area last year has pleaded guilty.
Updated: Apr. 21, 2022 at 1:06 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
A Waco man who remains in the Falls County Jail on charges he shot at a deputy in January was indicted Thursday in the shooting death of a man in Waco.
Updated: Apr. 20, 2022 at 8:12 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
A nursing assistant who caused massive brain injuries to his infant son six years ago was sentenced to eight years in prison Wednesday.
Updated: Apr. 19, 2022 at 6:16 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
Two doctors and two former police detectives testified Tuesday in the trial of Melvin Vincent.
Updated: Apr. 18, 2022 at 5:43 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
The boy survived the head trauma but is now blind and suffered critical brain damage.
Updated: Apr. 18, 2022 at 4:51 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
A former student manager of Baylor University’s national championship basketball team was placed on deferred probation Monday in the March 2021 sexual assault of a female student.
Updated: Apr. 14, 2022 at 4:24 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
Prosecutors say the murder was committed during an aggravated robbery.
Updated: Apr. 13, 2022 at 5:36 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
A jury of nine women and three men acquitted the man of possession of cocaine in a drug-free zone.
Updated: Apr. 11, 2022 at 6:01 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
McLennan County judges are back in the civil jury trial business after more than two years of a pandemic-related moratorium.
Updated: Apr. 11, 2022 at 5:41 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
The victim in Saturday’s shooting death in Waco has a lengthy arrest record for drug and alcohol-related offenses.
Updated: Apr. 8, 2022 at 4:22 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
Sexually explicit photos and a video on a 14-year-old Waco girl’s phone led to the arrest of a Chilton man.
Updated: Apr. 7, 2022 at 3:16 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
A Robinson High School coach and teacher is free on bonds totaling $2,000 after his arrest Tuesday night on drunken driving and weapons charges.
Updated: Apr. 6, 2022 at 4:41 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
A former Lorena High School student already under felony indictment was jailed again this week on arson, assault on a peace officer and resisting arrest charges.
Updated: Apr. 5, 2022 at 4:37 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
Ted Nugent and his wife are suing a homebuilder, claiming he failed to build their $1.5 million home in a manner to safeguard them from toxic mold.
Updated: Apr. 4, 2022 at 5:31 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
Daezion Watkins is charged in the September 2019 robbery and shooting death of Aquarius Tyrone McPhaul.
Updated: Apr. 1, 2022 at 5:21 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
Waco has a new federal magistrate judge and he is eager to help manage the nation’s leading and fastest-growing patent law docket.
Updated: Mar. 31, 2022 at 4:41 PM CDT
|By Tommy Witherspoon
The suspect is facing an enhanced charge with a stiffer penalty as a result of a prior conviction.