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Discover Nature: Chronic Wasting Disease

This week on Discover Nature, the Missouri Department of Conservation thanks hunters for their help in testing for Chronic Wasting Disease.

November 12th and 13th were the opening days of deer rifle season here in Missouri. In thirty-four counties across the state, that weekend also required any deer that were harvested to be brought to a testing station where their lymph nodes would be removed to be tested for Chronic Wasting Disease.

Over nineteen thousand and four hundred lymph node samples were taken, and for the w ... Read more

Firearms Portion Of Deer Season Underway & Numbers Are Above

Opening weekend of the November firearms deer hunting season sees a statewide harvest of more than 92-thousand.

That’s according to figures provided by the department of conservation.

In the lake area, Benton County led th ... Read more

House fire destroys Calvert home

CALVERT, Texas (KBTX) - A single-story home in Calvert is destroyed following a house fire Saturday night.

The Calvert Volunteer Fire Department says a home on the 11500 block of South Hickory Loop was fully engulfed and is considered a ... Read more

Calvert ISD breaks ground on new education building

CALVERT, Texas (KBTX) - A milestone moment happened Wednesday morning as Calvert ISD broke ground on their first new facility in generations.

The facility will house the district’s brand new Pre-K through 12th grade educational buildin ... Read more

Calvert businesses looking forward to Shop Small Saturday

CALVERT, Texas (KBTX) - People are encouraged to stop by Calvert for Small Business Saturday this weekend.

The Calvert Chamber of Commerce says this is the perfect time to shop for gifts and get out with the family, all things you can do on Historic Main Street.

“Shop Small Saturday is really one of the most important things that goes on each year. That kind of highlights the plight of small towns around Texas and the rest of the country. We really need business. COVID said everybody pretty hard. And we have so much ... Read more

Chester hands Calvert 58-22 loss

CALVERT, Texas (KBTX) - The Chester Yellowjackets scored the first two touchdowns of the night against Calvert and never looked back in a 58-22 win over the Trojans Friday night at Wilkerson Field.

Jaxon Gay returned a Ja’Carius Schell ... Read more

Young Franklin boy recovering in ICU after bulldozer acciden

FRANKLIN, Texas (KBTX) - A Franklin boy remains in the ICU after being run over by a bulldozer. The incident happened last Wednesday when 6-year-old Bodie Boring was on a job site with his father, according to his mother Samantha Boring.

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Mobile STEM lab makes a stop at Hearne Elementary

HEARNE, Texas (KBTX) - Hearne Elementary School students had the opportunity to go aboard Learning Undefeated’s Mobile STEM Lab on Tuesday.

The mobile STEM lab is traveling across Texas to provide science, technology, engineering and m ... Read more