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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Waco man pleads guilty to sexually assaulting teen runaway; prosecutors recommend deferred probation
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.
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A Waco man remains jailed after police say he hit his live-in girlfriend in the face with a shoe and sexually assaulted her.
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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.
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The teen, now 18 and identified in the lawsuit only as “John Doe,” is seeking unspecified damages.
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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.
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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.
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David Henry and Amine Qourzal will likely square off again in a runoff for the Ward 1, Place 2 seat in Woodway.
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Judge granted man's request to attend granddaughter's graduation ceremony.
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A longtime Waco financial adviser is accused of misappropriating more than $17 million from at least 23 customers.
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McLennan County officials on Monday unsealed a two-count indictment against the suspect.
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The abuse came to light after school officials overheard children on the school bus talking about the incident.
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The forensic toxicologist and lab involved in evidence testing are under investigation by the Texas Forensic Science Commission.
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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.
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Prosecutors rested their case Tuesday evening after playing videos of the altercation for the jury from store surveillance cameras.
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A Waco man pleaded guilty Monday to sexually assaulting an 8-year-old family member in November 2015.
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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.
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The civil rights cases of about 90 bikers arrested in the 2015 Twin Peaks shootout were thrown out by a U.S. district judge.
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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.
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A Denton man was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday for smuggling four migrants into the country in November 2018.
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Man allegedly admitted he would have killed U.S. Marshals if he had a “clean shot.”
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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.
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Chip and Joanna Gaines are converting the former newspaper building into headquarters for the burgeoning Magnolia empire.
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Five Waco attorneys are seeking appointment as judge of a newly created state district court.
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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.
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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.
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A nursing assistant who caused massive brain injuries to his infant son six years ago was sentenced to eight years in prison Wednesday.
Two doctors and two former police detectives testified Tuesday in the trial of Melvin Vincent.
The boy survived the head trauma but is now blind and suffered critical brain damage.
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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.
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Prosecutors say the murder was committed during an aggravated robbery.
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A jury of nine women and three men acquitted the man of possession of cocaine in a drug-free zone.
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McLennan County judges are back in the civil jury trial business after more than two years of a pandemic-related moratorium.
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The victim in Saturday’s shooting death in Waco has a lengthy arrest record for drug and alcohol-related offenses.
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Sexually explicit photos and a video on a 14-year-old Waco girl’s phone led to the arrest of a Chilton man.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Daezion Watkins is charged in the September 2019 robbery and shooting death of Aquarius Tyrone McPhaul.
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Waco has a new federal magistrate judge and he is eager to help manage the nation’s leading and fastest-growing patent law docket.
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The suspect is facing an enhanced charge with a stiffer penalty as a result of a prior conviction.