Tommy Witherspoon
KWTX Managing Editor
Waco, Texas
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.
Chris Wolfe has been recommended for nomination to the Waco federal court bench, according to Albright.
A habitual criminal from Falls County was sentenced to life in prison Thursday.
Court rejects ex-Baylor University football player’s latest appeal of 2015 sexual assault conviction
Sam Ukwuachu was convicted in Waco in August 2015 of sexually assaulting a Baylor soccer player.
Commissioners appointed Gary “Bull” Durham to fill the unexpired term of retiring Justice of the Peace Walter “Pete” Peterson.
Corey Jarrell Davis accepted a plea offer from the McLennan County District Attorney’s Office.
McLennan County district clerk candidate with expunged felony to remain on Republican primary ballot
District Clerk candidate Rebecca Eubank asked McLennan County Republican Party Chairman Chris DeCluitt to determine if Connley Litton is an eligible candidate.
An intermediate appellate court in Waco has thrown out a lawsuit filed by State Rep. Pat Curry against a Virginia-based political action committee that called Curry a “turncoat” and disseminated his personal cell phone number.
Judge Thomas West of 19th State District Court revoked Richard’s Mynar’s felony DWI probation and sentenced him to six years in prison.
Santiago Bustamante must serve half of his sentence before he can seek parole. After his release, he faces deportation to Mexico.
A Utah man wrongfully arrested last year on allegations he threatened a shooting at an Axtell school in an attempt to exploit a minor has filed a false arrest and malicious prosecution lawsuit.
Cynthia Ellen Ming, 54, who initially pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the capital murder charge, changed her plea to guilty to the lesser charge of murder.
A Corsicana middle school student who blinded a school administrator during a violent classroom attack in August 2024 is waiting to learn his punishment.
A Bellmead woman who was living with her father’s decomposing body in a filthy mobile home was found mentally incompetent to stand trial Thursday.
A Waco man remains jailed after Lacy Lakeview police say he left a 1-month-old baby unattended on the front porch of the child’s mother’s home on Nov. 28.
A Waco woman was arrested Wednesday morning after police say she put her 11-month-old son in harm’s way during a domestic disturbance at an apartment on Richland Drive.
A West man remined jailed Wednesday after sheriff’s deputies allege he hit a man in the head with a board, bit his ear and threatened him with a knife during an altercation in July.
A Lacy Lakeview woman charged with breaking into her neighbor’s home in 2022, shooting her in the head and claiming she “drank her blood” will employ an insanity defense during her capital murder trial next week.
A McLennan County judge softened the bond conditions Tuesday for a Waco homebuilder charged with seven counts of sexual assault and assault family violence in cases involving two alleged victims.
Waco attorney and former Midway school board President Peter Rusek was sworn in Monday as the ninth judge in McLennan County history to preside over 74th State District Court.
A Marlin man remains jailed after police say he confronted a woman he was dating at a Waco restaurant last week, grabbed her hair and forced her into his car at gunpoint.
A Bellmead man with a lengthy history of domestic violence was arrested Monday after police said he battered his daughter’s mother
Brian Schroeder, identified in arrest documents as co-owner of Waco Motorsports, was charged with theft of more than $2,500 but less than $30,000.
Akylon Kyle Benson, 26, who formerly identified himself on social media as “executive director” of a local group that purports to catch alleged child sex predators, pleaded guilty to exploitation of an elderly person.
Visiting Judge Roy Sparkman approved Esteban Meza Aguilar’s plea agreement with the McLennan County District Attorney’s Office.
Daisy Hernandez, 19, was jailed under $5,000 bond after her arrest on a state jail felony charge of terroristic threat against a public servant.
The last of four young men charged in the 2021 shooting death and robbery of a man who was lured to South Waco by a fake social media account was sentenced.
A former China Spring girl testified Tuesday that Thomas Arthur Stewart sexually assaulted her while they were sharing a bed at her family’s home.
BaylorFans.com filed a lawsuit last week alleging breach of contract and fraud against the owners of SicEm365.com.
Dillon Thomas Bridgers pleaded guilty to reduced charges in the April 2024 shooting deaths of Regina Marcott and Delton Marcott.
Longtime Waco attorney Dan MacLemore was sworn in as Waco’s newest U.S. magistrate judge in a ceremony this week in Waco’s U.S. District Court.
KWTX reported Wednesday that Jose Antonio Luevanos, husband of Elisabeth Avila Luevanos, is seeking more than $1 million in damages in his lawsuit against On Roadside Assistance Austin Inc.
The father of a 3-month-old baby who died in November 2023 from neglect and malnourishment was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday.
Jose Antonio Luevanos, husband of Elisabeth Avila Luevanos, is seeking more than $1 million in damages in his suit.
Itasca police are investigating a fight between two Itasca High School students that sent one teenager to the hospital and the other to juvenile detention.
Heath Lee Mynar, 54, of Waco, a 20-year member of the Waco Police Department, remains jailed under $250,000 bond.
The McLennan County District Attorney’s Office has dismissed domestic violence charges against a former Waco police officer who was arrested in April on allegations he assaulted his wife.
A Waco man who Lacy Lakeview police say admitted “to having a problem he needs help with” was arrested Thursday on charges he sexually abused two young family members.
A former Elk volunteer firefighter who reportedly drove a firetruck while drunk to sexually assault a Bellmead teen was indicted Thursday on multiple charges.
A China Spring woman who ignored deputies’ orders to drop a shotgun outside her home in 2023 before deputies shot her was sentenced to 12 years in prison Thursday in two incidents involving the McLennan County Sheriff’s Office.
A Merced, Calif., man linked to multiple robberies in McLennan County, including a $1.7 million heist at Boozer’s Jewelers, was sentenced to 25 years in prison Thursday.
West police arrested a Waco man Tuesday who they allege sexually abused a young girl for more than nine months.
A former employee of a Waco home improvement company was placed on deferred probation Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to stealing $60,000 worth of flooring materials.
A Big Spring man who pleaded guilty in April to beating, kicking and choking a dog and locking dogs in a car with no open windows or water for hours at a time was placed on deferred probation Wednesday.
Whitney Ashton Hayes was arrested in September 2023 on DWI, endangering a child and bribery charges.
Sheppard “Shep” Mullens, the county’s first Black county commissioner, also served in the Texas House of Representatives.
Gas leak delays trial of Waco woman accused of crashing into cars at school pick-up line while drunk
Jury selection in Whitney Ashton Hayes’ DWI trial had begun Monday morning in McLennan County Court-at-Law No. 2 when a contractor working on the renovation of the old downtown county jail struck a gas line.
A West rancher who alleges he lost 21 acres of hay through an errant crop-dusting incident is suing a Hill County aerial agricultural company for damages.
Michael Anthony Williams, 41, remained jailed Thursday under bonds totaling $15,000.
A McLennan County woman who claims she was sexually harassed and assaulted while working at the Waco Kohl’s is seeking more than $1 million in a lawsuit against the company and a former employee.
McLennan County Justice of the Peace Dianne Hensley was sanctioned by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct in 2019 for declining to officiate at gay marriage ceremonies.
