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 the El Paso and Southern New Mexico marker, 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.
Joe is an avid reader who enjoys history, philosophy and political works. His favorite author is the brilliant Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky, with "Notes From The Underground," "Crime and Punishment" and "The Possessed" among Joe's favorite novels.
An avid cinephile, Joe spends a lot of his time watching classic, foreign, and indie films. His favorite directors include Ingmar Bergman, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese. Joe's favorite films are "The Seventh Seal," "Taxi Driver," "Pulp Fiction," and "Fight Club."
He enjoys a lot of genres of music, especially, classic rock, heavy metal and alternative. When he's taking time off, he's normally taking a road trip to attend a rock concert or music festivals.
Updated: 12 hours ago
|By Joe Villasana
The Killeen City Council voted Tuesday evening to amend a voter-approved ordinance to decriminalize possession of misdemeanor amounts of marijuana.
Updated: Dec. 3, 2022 at 10:24 AM CST
|By Joe Villasana
A four-month investigation led to the arrest of five suspects and the recovery of more than $500,000 worth of stolen property.
Updated: Dec. 3, 2022 at 10:00 AM CST
|By Joe Villasana
Authorities in Dallas are asking the public for help identifying a suspect in the fatal shooting of a Family Dollar employee.
Updated: Dec. 2, 2022 at 10:19 PM CST
|By Joe Villasana
Suspect charged with capital murder and aggravated kidnapping.
Updated: Dec. 2, 2022 at 9:51 PM CST
|By Joe Villasana
Paramedics responded to the jail cell and “found no signs of life,” police said.
Updated: Dec. 1, 2022 at 9:00 AM CST
|By Joe Villasana
Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to call the Wise County Sheriff’s Office at 940-627-5971.
Updated: Nov. 23, 2022 at 12:02 AM CST
|By Joe Villasana
Harker Heights City Council on Tuesday voted to recall a new voter approved marijuana decriminalization ordinance, according to the Killeen Daily Herald.
Updated: Nov. 22, 2022 at 11:49 PM CST
|By Joe Villasana
Killeen City Council Tuesday night voted to place a moratorium on Proposition A until it can meet again on Dec. 6, 2022, to further examine the implications of the new voter-approved law.
Updated: Nov. 22, 2022 at 6:53 AM CST
|By Joe Villasana
The Temple Police Department is investigating a shooting that wounded a woman overnight.
Updated: Nov. 21, 2022 at 7:24 AM CST
|By Joe Villasana
Call (903) 566-6600 to report information to Smith County Sheriff’s Office.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2022 at 12:06 PM CST
|By Joe Villasana
The man who allegedly slashed the tires of more than 50 vehicles, including some belonging to the municipal government, was arrested after an incident at a local Walmart.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2022 at 10:47 AM CST
|By Joe Villasana and Josh Bowering
The Belton Police Department announced it had concluded its investigation into the murder of John Hill without bringing charges against the suspect.
Texas governor invokes Invasion Clause in U.S. and Texas constitutions in response to migrant crisis
Updated: Nov. 15, 2022 at 1:12 PM CST
|By Joe Villasana
- Texas Governor Greg Abbott, recently re-elected to his third term in office, on Tuesday announced he had involved the Invasion Clause in the U.S. and Texas constitutions.
Updated: Oct. 30, 2022 at 5:40 PM CDT
|By Joe Villasana
The Killeen Police Department is investigating an officer-involved shooting Sunday evening.
Updated: Oct. 19, 2022 at 3:06 PM CDT
|By Joe Villasana
Devarjaye “DJ” Daniel is battling terminal brain cancer and traveling across the country being sworn into law enforcement agencies.
Updated: Oct. 15, 2022 at 10:37 PM CDT
|By Joe Villasana
The Coryell County Sheriff’s Office on Friday released photos of escaped inmate Brandon Hogan’s tattoos in an effort to help area residents identify the fugitive.
Updated: Oct. 9, 2022 at 8:09 PM CDT
|By Joe Villasana
The wreck involving two vehicles was reported on Sunday, Oct. 9, shortly after 6 a.m. in the 5200 block of S Fort Hood Road.
Updated: Oct. 8, 2022 at 10:56 AM CDT
|By Joe Villasana
The Texas Department of Public Safety has discontinued an Amber Alert for Jada Welch, 12, and Tristan Welch, a seven month old boy.
Updated: Oct. 6, 2022 at 11:51 PM CDT
|By Joe Villasana
The Polk County Sheriff’s office is looking for two week old Sonni Ray Melike.
Updated: Oct. 6, 2022 at 2:28 PM CDT
|By Joe Villasana
Coryell County Sheriff Scott Williams on Thursday warned Central Texas fugitive inmate Brandon Hogan, on the lam since Sept. 26, had recently received “bad news” and is "distraught."
Updated: Oct. 6, 2022 at 12:49 PM CDT
|By Joe Villasana
A violent confrontation in the parking lot of a business late Wednesday night resulted in a deadly shooting.
Updated: Sep. 27, 2022 at 8:13 AM CDT
|By Joe Villasana
Belton Police is working a serious motorcycle crash on the southbound side I-35 heading towards Belton near Exit 293B.
Updated: Sep. 19, 2022 at 9:52 AM CDT
|By Joe Villasana
The active investigation is underway at a residence in the 1100 block of Wales Drive.
Updated: Sep. 14, 2022 at 11:59 AM CDT
|By Joe Villasana
Drivers used various methods to transport migrants, including hiding them in suitcases placed in pickup trucks and cramming migrants in the back of tractor-trailers.
Updated: Sep. 13, 2022 at 12:12 PM CDT
|By Joe Villasana
A woman in Killeen is being held in a road rage incident that put the lives of three children and a man in danger.
Updated: Sep. 12, 2022 at 12:30 PM CDT
|By Joe Villasana
A man trying to break up a fight involving two women in Temple was stabbed in the stomach.
Updated: Sep. 2, 2022 at 3:12 PM CDT
|By Joe Villasana
The Texans spent time talking with the players and lending their support to a devastated community still mourning the loss of 19 students and two teachers who tragically lost their lives in May.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2022 at 8:01 PM CDT
|By Joe Villasana
A dispute over money derived from the alleged sale of lumber stolen from a construction site led to a violent confrontation and, eventually, the murder of a woman reported missing in Waco.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2022 at 1:20 PM CDT
|By Joe Villasana
The disturbing case involved a human trafficking victim advertised as a sex slave in a social media post.
Updated: Jul. 1, 2022 at 6:44 PM CDT
|By Joe Villasana
Authorities in the San Antonio area are responding to what appears to be another abandoned 18-wheeler with migrants inside.
Updated: Jun. 29, 2022 at 8:58 PM CDT
|By Joe Villasana
The U.S. Department of Justice announced the arrest of the truck driver blamed in the deaths of 53 migrants in San Antonio.
Updated: Jun. 21, 2022 at 11:47 PM CDT
|By Joe Villasana
Police are looking for the driver of a silver Chevy Malibu who dropped off the man at the hospital.
Updated: Jun. 19, 2022 at 10:07 PM CDT
|By Joe Villasana
A teenager was killed, and two civilians and a police officer wounded, during a shooting Sunday in our nation’s capital.
Updated: Jun. 14, 2022 at 10:35 AM CDT
|By Joe Villasana
Security forces and local law enforcement officers are currently responding to reports of gunshots heard off-base in the vicinity of Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland Air Force Base.
Updated: Jun. 9, 2022 at 11:22 AM CDT
|By Joe Villasana
Investigators said an autopsy revealed the baby died from the “toxic effects of methamphetamine in an unsafe sleeping environment.”
Updated: Jun. 6, 2022 at 6:03 PM CDT
|By Joe Villasana
Police are looking for an unidentified woman who ran into an apartment complex office, bleeding from the head, and begged two employees to lock the door because her boyfriend was “coming to get me.”
Updated: Jun. 1, 2022 at 10:39 PM CDT
|By Joe Villasana
The Texas Department of Public Safety on Wednesday issued an Amber Alert for a three-month-old toddler abducted in the Houston area.
Updated: May. 29, 2022 at 8:39 PM CDT
|By Joe Villasana
Authorities on Sunday released new photos showing the tattoos on the arms, back, chest and abdominal area of Gonzalo Lopez.
Updated: May. 26, 2022 at 7:17 PM CDT
|By Joe Villasana
Police on Thursday arrested a young man who allegedly threatened to to bring his AK-47 to school.
Updated: May. 8, 2022 at 6:56 PM CDT
|By Joe Villasana
The notice applies to all residents and businesses in several Bell County cities.
Updated: May. 8, 2022 at 6:48 PM CDT
|By Joe Villasana
Voters in the Temple Independent School District on Saturday approved the school district’s $164.8 million bond.
Updated: May. 8, 2022 at 6:36 PM CDT
|By Joe Villasana
The Texas Department of Public Safety on Sunday identified Nazario Garcia Armando, 65, of Copperas Cove, as the pedestrian killed when he was struck by a motorcyclist.
Updated: May. 2, 2022 at 12:48 AM CDT
|By Joe Villasana
Waco Police Department officers are looking for a murder suspect after a shooting Sunday night.
Updated: Apr. 30, 2022 at 7:04 PM CDT
|By Joe Villasana
Police officers dispatched to the store learned the suspect demanded money, threatened the bank employees, claimed to have a handgun, and tied their hands.
Updated: Apr. 21, 2022 at 1:47 PM CDT
|By Joe Villasana
Border Patrol agents captured 13 undocumented immigrants who were being smuggled within a load of hay stacks.
Updated: Apr. 20, 2022 at 1:29 PM CDT
|By Joe Villasana
Prosecutors recently charged six alleged members of the Mongols motorcycle gang with engaging in organized criminal activity after a man was attacked with a beer bottle outside the Last Chance Bar and Grill.
Updated: Apr. 19, 2022 at 8:03 PM CDT
|By Joe Villasana
The Temple Police Department is looking for a “high risk” runaway teenager.
Updated: Apr. 19, 2022 at 9:32 AM CDT
|By Joe Villasana
An argument at a North Texas Starbucks has police investigating a homicide.
Updated: Mar. 27, 2022 at 12:05 PM CDT
|By Joe Villasana
Fuel spilled on the road after an 18-wheeler rolled onto its side at about 8 a.m. Sunday at Central Texas Expressway at Rosewood.
Updated: Feb. 16, 2022 at 10:34 AM CST
|By Joe Villasana
Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Wednesday campaigned in Waco as he seeks a third term as governor.
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