Joe Villasana
Digital Content Director
Waco, Texas
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Joe Villasana is the digital strategy manager for KWTX, the CBS affiliate in Central Texas. Joe was born and raised in El Paso, Texas and graduated with a dual major in Electronic Media and Political Science from the University of Texas at El Paso. He worked as a news producer for KVIA-TV, the legacy #1 station in El Paso, from 2007 to 2016 and later as the station's Digital Content Director from 2016-2019. In late 2019, Joe moved to Central Texas to work with KWTX, the legacy #1 station in the Waco-Temple-Killeen television news market.
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U.S. Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector identified a registered sex offender allegedly attempting to sponsor a 16-year-old migrant teenager from Guatemala.
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Police are asking the public for help locating 67-year-old Jerry L Pate, a missing elderly man who reportedly suffers from a variety of medical and mental health issues.
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Central Texas Veteran Harold Ramm is celebrating his bith 100th birthday!
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Police say a man stole a Houston Fire Department ambulance at gunpoint as firefighters rushed a patient to the hospital.
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Police identified the local teenager arrested in connection to wreck during illegal street racing.
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Investigators say the teenager's vehicle crossed the center line around a curve and collided head on with an oncoming car.
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Police and a bomb squad responded after a resident found a "high explosive" grenade at a neighborhood park and took it home.
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An officer with the Lott Police Department is expected to be okay after his police unit was struck by a driver who ran a stop sign, the department said in a Facebook post.
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The pursuit started shortly before 10 p.m. when patrol officers received a call about a possible theft in progress near 18th and Columbus.
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Police are looking for the man who allegedly grabbed a woman pumping gas and then fired several rounds at the victim’s car as she ran away to safety.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott is threatening to arrest Texas Democrats who fled to Washington D.C. in a bid to derail a Republican law that critics claim will make it harder to vote in the Lone Star State.
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Police Monday identified the employee of a local restaurant who was shot to death during an early-morning robbery.
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“It will be the highest output & most advanced rocket engine factory in the world," Musk said on Twitter.
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Detectives arrested three alleged members of a lumber theft ring, solving five cases and recovering more than $40,000 worth of stolen lumber and building materials.
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Police say a 5-year-old boy suffered a gunshot wound to his left leg after a weapon was left unsecured in the backseat of a vehicle he was riding in.
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Two unoccupied vehicles and one residence received damage from the rounds.
Police are investigating a shooting that cost a Waco man his life and left a second man suffering from a gunshot wound.
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The Mills County Sheriff’s Office late on Friday asked the public for help locating Scout, a missing service dog.
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A judge this week sentenced a former correctional officer after she was found guilty of having sex with a jail inmate.
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U.S. Border Patrol agents encountered and detained three undocumented migrants armed with firearms they allegedly stole after burglarizing a ranch house in Hudspeth County.
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A U.S. Border Patrol agent in South Texas saved the life of a migrant child drowning in a pond shortly after crossing the Rio Grande.
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A Texas mother dropping off her son at the U.S. Naval Academy was shot and killed outside a hotel in Annapolis.
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Bystanders helped a driver push his car away from gas pumps after it caught fire.
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The world’s largest retailer announced on Tuesday it plans to start selling its own brand of analog insulin.
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Body camera footage shows the moment officers arrested the suspect in a Texas Amber Alert.
Police officers responding the scene of a fiery wreck found the body of a man believed to be the driver inside the vehicle.
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he Brownsville Police Department on Saturday issued a statewide Amber Alert.
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Police are investigating a shooting that left three people wounded Saturday afternoon.
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Authorities are looking for a missing Fort Hood soldier.
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A train collided with a semi truck in Moody, Texas on Friday.
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The man suffers from some memory loss and does not know anyone in Waco.
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Police in Killeen arrested the man charged with murder in connection to a deadly shooting in Austin’s 6th Street nightlife district.
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A law enforcement operation dubbed Operation Fallen Angel dealt a major blow to a prostitution scheme in Central Texas.
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A Florida boy who runs in honor of fallen law enforcement officers and firefighters plans to be in Texas this weekend to honor DPS troopers.
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A South Carolina man is in custody in East Texas after deputies allegedly found nearly $1-million inside a pickup during a traffic stop.
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The founder and director of Texas EquuSearch was admitted to the hospital as a result of a serious health condition.
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Austin Police on Tuesday identified a new suspect in the deadly shooting in the 6th Street nightlife district.
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Police in North Texas are looking for two children abducted in the Dallas area.
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Police detectives on Monday identified Janie Nickole Armour, 48, as a wanted fugitive who allegedly filed a false police report to benefit her in a potential civil case.
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Temple Fire & Rescue said the fire that occurred at Station 5 at 510 North Apache erupted in the kitchen after a pan was left on a live stove while firefighters were responding to a call.
The wreck happened on Saturday, June 19, 2021, at about 9:35 a.m. in the 1300 block of E Rancier Avenue.
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The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) on Friday announced the death of DPS Sergeant.
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Houston police released surveillance video of suspects and a vehicle wanted in the deadly shooting of a woman outside a gym.
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Victoria’s Secret announced a “dramatic shift” in its brand as it partners with women who are famous for their achievements and not their proportions.
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A Central Texas teenager and her family overcame several obstacles and enjoyed a very special ceremony as they begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
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Walmart is hosting a hiring event on Wednesday from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
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State Representative Vikki Goodwin, (D-District 47), is calling on Texas Governor Greg Abbott to veto the so-called “constitutional carry” bill.
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Bond has been set at $1-million for the East Texas man charged after a man died when he was tied to a pickup and dragged down the street.
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Police are investigating the death of a motorcyclist involved in a wreck Saturday afternoon.
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The area educators gathered to protest what some perceive to be efforts to eliminate the teaching of critical race theory in public schools.