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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Authorities in the San Antonio area are responding to what appears to be another abandoned 18-wheeler with migrants inside.
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The U.S. Department of Justice announced the arrest of the truck driver blamed in the deaths of 53 migrants in San Antonio.
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Police are looking for the driver of a silver Chevy Malibu who dropped off the man at the hospital.
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A teenager was killed, and two civilians and a police officer wounded, during a shooting Sunday in our nation’s capital.
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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.
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Investigators said an autopsy revealed the baby died from the “toxic effects of methamphetamine in an unsafe sleeping environment.”
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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.”
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The Texas Department of Public Safety on Wednesday issued an Amber Alert for a three-month-old toddler abducted in the Houston area.
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Authorities on Sunday released new photos showing the tattoos on the arms, back, chest and abdominal area of Gonzalo Lopez.
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Police on Thursday arrested a young man who allegedly threatened to to bring his AK-47 to school.
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The notice applies to all residents and businesses in several Bell County cities.
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Voters in the Temple Independent School District on Saturday approved the school district’s $164.8 million bond.
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.
Waco Police Department officers are looking for a murder suspect after a shooting Sunday night.
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Police officers dispatched to the store learned the suspect demanded money, threatened the bank employees, claimed to have a handgun, and tied their hands.
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Border Patrol agents captured 13 undocumented immigrants who were being smuggled within a load of hay stacks.
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.
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The Temple Police Department is looking for a “high risk” runaway teenager.
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An argument at a North Texas Starbucks has police investigating a homicide.
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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.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Wednesday campaigned in Waco as he seeks a third term as governor.
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Two men are in custody in connection to the murder of Ty Andrew Gentle.
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San Antonio Police arrested a mother and her boyfriend after a 5-year-old girl died at a hospital.
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The ATF is offering an $8,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of the burglars.
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Police said the woman lured a man to an ambush and the man was shot and hacked by MS-13 gang members with machetes.
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Crime Stoppers has increased its reward to $10,000 for information that leads to the arrest of a triple-murder suspect Abel Acosta.
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The Bosque County Sheriff’s Office said the investigation into the mysterious disappearance of John Walter Mauhar, of Waco, is ongoing.
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A devastating fire overnight ravaged the LARAS House Shelter and killed eleven dogs.
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Five people are dead, including a child, after a man allegedly killed his family before turning the gun on himself, police said.
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ERCOT estimates the highest demand for electricity in Texas during the winter storm will be Friday morning.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott holds a commanding double-digit lead over Democrat Beto O’Rourke in the latest poll for the November 2022 gubernatorial election.
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The signs were meant to show support for the China Spring Football Team.
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About a dozen police units responded to the Killeen Mall Tuesday night.
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The Houston Police Department’s Robbery Division is asking Texans for help identifying the suspect who shot a convenience store clerk in the face.
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U.S. marshals and Killeen police officers arrested a suspect in deadly shooting Halloween night.
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Investigators announced the arrests of a mother and her boyfriend after an 8-year-old's decomposing body was found in a Houston-area apartment.
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The body, along with three other malnourished children, had reportedly been abandoned and left behind at the apartment unit for nearly a year.
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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.