Allie Spillyards joined NBC 5 in October 2017. She’s a general assignment reporter who often works out of Dallas or Collin county. You can usually catch her stories on NBC 5 at 10 p.m.
Allie is a North Texas native who was born and raised in Wylie.
She’s made several stops in the southeast, working most recently at WIS in Columbia, SC where she anchored weekend mornings and covered general news. While in Columbia, she reported on the tragic shooting at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston and followed the controversy over removing the Confederate flag from the South Carolina State House grounds. She also covered the historic flooding in October 2015 that destroyed hundreds of homes and left 17 people dead.
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Prior to South Carolina, Allie worked as a reporter at WCNC in Charlotte, NC.
She started her career at WVLT in Knoxville, TN as a general assignment reporter. She then helped launch a weekend morning newscast as an anchor before moving to weekday mornings.
In 2017, Allie was awarded a fellowship to train in computer assisted reporting with Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc.
Allie’s a proud graduate of the University of Missouri where she learned her way around a newsroom at KOMU both on and off air. She has a bachelor’s in journalism and a minor in political science. While there, Allie spent a semester in Brussels, Belgium as an intern at Reuters.
Now that she’s back in North Texas, Allie lives in Dallas with her husband, Blake, and their spoiled rotten rescue pup, Roux. She’s thrilled to be back home, telling stories from familiar communities and reporting news that impacts friends, family and neighbors.
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North Texas parents react to Instagram's new ‘teen accounts'
Meta has introduced new ‘teen accounts’ on Instagram to give parents more control over what their teens see and who can contact them. However, some parents feel the new tool doesn’t go far enough. NBC 5’s Allie Spillyards has more.
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Instagram announces account changes for teens promoting safety, parental control
On Tuesday, Instagram’s parent company, Meta, announced that users 18 and older will automatically be placed into a new type of private account.
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Community leaders hold ‘Stop the Violence' rally after recent crime
Amid fears of school violence and the recent shooting death of a student, community leaders are speaking up and spreading the word about resources available to both kids and families. That included a rally held in Oak Cliff. Here’s NBC 5’s Allie Spillyards.
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Dallas community leaders host anti-violence rally after school threats, teen death
Bringing their message directly to students, community leaders descended on Dallas ISD’s Roosevelt High School Saturday for a Stop the Violence rally.
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Cowboys, Saints fans weather Hurricane Francine to see Sunday's game
Hurricane Francine is no match for football fans from Louisiana who would stop at nothing to make it to Sunday’s game at AT&T Stadium. NBC 5’s Allie Spillyards caught up woth Saints and Cowboys fans.
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Hurricane won't stop Saints, Cowboys fans from traveling to DFW for Sunday's game
While cleanup is underway in Louisiana, football fans are not letting Hurricane Francine stand in the way of a showdown between the Dallas Cowboys and New Orleans Saints.
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Calls for transparency as Grand Prairie ISD board meets after placing superintendent on leave
One week after placing new Grand Prairie Superintendent Jorge Arredondo on leave, the school board responded to community concerns at a meeting Thursday.
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Parents, community calls for transparency after GPISD Superintendent was placed on leave
Tonight, in its first meeting since the recent departure of Grand Prairie’s new Superintendent Jorge Arredondo, the School Board announced that no decisions regarding his status. Despite more than a dozen parents and community members urging the board to allow him to retain his position, the decision remains pending. NBC 5’s Allie Spillards was present at the meeting and has...
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17-year-old shoots her grandmother in North Texas, police say
A new video shows what happened after police say a 17-year-old exchanged gunfire with officers and shot her grandmother. She now faces attempted capital murder and aggravated assault charges. NBC 5’s Allie Spillyards has more from the scene in Kennedale.
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What does the future hold for Southwest after shakeup announcement?
Following months of mounting pressure, Southwest leadership is undergoing a big shakeup. On Tuesday, Board Chair and former CEO Gary Kelly announced he and nearly half of the board’s directors will soon step down. It’s just one part of an overhaul called for by a major shareholder. NBC 5’s Allie Spillyards has more on what it could mean for those...