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.
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A Houston father is facing multiple charges after he was allegedly driving drunk and crashed, resulting in the death of a six-year-old girl.
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Deputies escorted Christopher Ramirez, 3, back home after he was released from a children’s hospital.
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Fentanyl, the synthetic opioid most commonly found in counterfeit pills, is the primary driver of this alarming increase in overdose deaths.
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Houston Police and several other law enforcement agencies are responding to reports of an active shooting at a school
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An affidavit obtained by News 10 reveals chilling new details about the father charged with capital murder in the killing of his son.
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Dozens of students at Temple High School walked out of class Wednesday morning in what appeared to be an act of solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community.
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Investigators charged the mother of Codi and Jessi Lowery, the Central Texas children abducted by a registered sex offender over the weekend.
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Police identified the driver who died after his vehicle plunged into the Lampasas River after he was targeted by a gunman on I-35.
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The DEA says the vast majority of counterfeit pills brought into the U.S. are produced in Mexico, and China is supplying chemicals for the manufacturing of fentanyl in Mexico.
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Firefighters from Bell County converged on Still House Hollow Lake Sunday afternoon to battle a huge blaze.
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Central Texas authorities search for missing 7-year-old girl last seen in Bosque County.
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Police on Friday announced the arrest of a capital murder suspect for the July 10th killing of a local restaurant employee.
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The Lorena Police Department will have an increased presence Friday at Lorena High School in light of threat targeting the school.
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A court document states a soldier shot and killed the mother of his child after an argument outside a Killeen nightclub.
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News 10 viewer April Reason shared video of the son of slain Texas DPS Trooper Chad Walker throwing the first pitch at a Houston Astros game over the weekend.
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A fire at Ponderosa Pet Resort Saturday night led to the deaths of 75 dogs.
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Police in the San Antonio area have issued an Amber Alert for an abducted Texas teenager.
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A Florida nurse pled guilty last week to a six count indictment charging her with making threats to kill U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris.
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The Copperas Cove Independent School District School Board on Tuesday unanimously approved better pay for school bus drivers and substitute teachers.
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The U.S. Army on Tuesday announced active duty units are expected to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by ...
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Police in Killeen arrested a suspect in connection to a shooting that happened on April 22, 2021.
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Five leaders in Bell County penned an open letter to residents to remind them health care workers in the area are “exhausted” and local medical facilities have had to stop elective surgeries as unvaccinated COVID-19 patients fill hospital beds.
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Police said a 45-year-old woman and a 5-year-old girl were shot Sunday, September 12 while sitting outside a residence.
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Police said four people, including the driver, were injured in a single vehicle wreck off I-35. Two of the passengers died.
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The single-vehicle wreck happened over the weekend near the 300 Block of Herring Avenue.
Police in Belton are investigating a shooting on southbound I-35 Sunday night that caused a driver to crash into the Lampasas River.
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Police are investigating a shooting that left four people wounded Sunday night.
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Authorities on Saturday, September 11 arrested Jeremiah Lane Mitchell, 20, of Killeen, on a warrant related to a murder investigation of Skyler Mills of Harker Heights.
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Central Texas DPS trooper Chad Walker was among those honored by Texas Governor Greg Abbott with the prestigious “Star of Texas” award.
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The Bosque County Sheriff’s Office is asking the public for help locating Benny Wright, a man wanted for allegedly assaulting a minor and threatening another individual with a knife.
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The Gonzales County Sheriff’s Office is mourning the loss of its leader - Sheriff Robert Ynclan - who died Sunday after falling ill with COVID-19 in August.
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In a Facebook post shared this week, Texas Attorney General warned school district with mask mandates to “rescind now or see you in court.”
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River Valley Intermediate Paul Offill asked students and the community for help mitigating the spread of COVID-19.
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The McGregor Independent School District in Central Texas announced on Facebook Monday it will implement a temporary face mask mandate.
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Detectives are investigating the tenth murder of the year in Killeen after a man was found dead from an apparent gunshot.
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he Connally Independent School District will require face masks inside all schools and district facilities beginning Tuesday, September 7, 2021, the district announced in a letter sent to parents on Friday.
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West City Marshall Michael Keathley battled COVID-19 for weeks and succumbed to the virus Friday morning.
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A McLennan County Grand Jury completed its review of a deadly SWAT shootout involving nine Waco Police Officers who shot and killed an armed suspect.
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Police on Thursday announced a 17-year-old boy and four juveniles were charged in connection to an act of vandalism at the Valley Mills High School football field.
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Police made an arrest Monday evening in connection with the hit-and-run death of a man who was struck while using his motorized wheelchair to travel down a local road.
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Authorities on Monday issued an arrest warrant for a teenager accused of setting a man and a woman on fire.
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A Silver Alert for a missing Central Texas man has been discontinued.
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A Texas woman has been charged for the death of a boy struck by a stray bullet.
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Central Texas woman receives suspicious text flagged as sex trafficking scheme by sheriff in Alabama
A Central Texas woman reached out to KWTX to report she had received a suspicious text message from a person pretending to be a woman looking to set up a sexual rendezvous.
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A doctor is going viral on Facebook after announcing he will no longer see patients who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19.
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Authorities Tuesday found a Cadillac sedan linked to the shooting of a Texas sheriff’s deputy, but the gunman remains on the run and a statewide Blue Alert issued after the deputy was shot has been canceled.
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The family of an Austin man stabbed and killed is offering an $8000 reward for information that helps police capture the person who murdered their son.
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A Texas teacher is accused of having a sexual relationship with a student and detectives are looking into whether there are more victims.
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Police said the boy is believed to be in “grave or immediate danger.”
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The bust was made on after CBP officers encountered a tractor trailer arriving from Mexico.