Athletes featured on the green had everything from Autism to Down Syndrome and Cerebral Palsy and while a few of them were in wheelchairs, nothing kept them from attempting to sink a shot.
A beloved former Miss Waco who lost her leg in an accident while stopping to help a stranded motorist near Waco is getting ready to climb one of the highest mountains in Ecuador with the help of her prosthetic leg to raise money for those in underserved countries who don’t have access to prosthetics.
A recent Baylor graduate in town for the weekend football game at McLane Stadium found herself in the middle of the most unlikely of viral videos after she caught a kick through a moving car window as the ball soared through the upright of a high school football game on onto a city street in downtown Waco.
The Waco Downtown Farmer’s Market operates year-round on Saturday mornings across from the McLennan County Courthouse from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and boasts the best local agricultural producers and artisan vendors within 150-miles of Waco.
The move means Sousa, while maintaining his on-air position at KWTX, will be appearing a lot more on national programming with a job he says is truly a dream come true.
The attendance of 92,003 at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, NE., set a world record for the most fans at any women’s sporting event in the United States and in the sea of fans were six volleyball players from Midway High School.
A longtime elementary school custodian has traded in her cleaning supplies for teaching supplies, overcoming the odds by going back to school for her GED while working full-time as the head custodian at the same school where she is now teaching.
An event to raise money for a local nonprofit that helps families who have lost someone too soon, which unfortunately, usually involves the death of a child, was a huge success over the weekend.
Rusty learned the news in July that his esophageal cancer had returned and began 33 rounds of radiation yesterday but in true Rusty-style he’s not focusing on the negative.
The Lorena varsity squad called the event “Football 101 for Moms” and included putting the moms through a practice to learn what their sons do when they suit up.
Thousands of Central Texas teachers are being treated to delicious homemade cookies as they return for a new school year thanks to a local business owner who said they deserve it.
Chris Charles Scott, a 2004 Baylor graduate from Tyler, is the director of the highly anticipated series called “Time of Essence” which will celebrate the evolution of the trailblazing publication.
A 7-year-old Central Texas boy who wants to be a police officer when he grows up and has a unique relationship with his town’s force delivered the $277 he raised at a front yard bake sale for the Lorena Police Department.
If you can’t make it to the event but want to donate supplies you can drop them off at the Coldwell Banker Apex office, Collins and Greer Orthodontics, Home Abstract Title in Waco or Central Texas Dental.
A local detective known for fighting human trafficking has taken on a new mission to help area kids get a new outfit and new shoes for the first day of school.
It was a chance find by Shannon Gamble, a self-proclaimed history lover, as she was browsing one of her favorite stores, Laverty’s Antiques and Furnishings in Waco, and came across the tags.
Beloved KWTX weatherman Rusty Garrett said his journey to recovery continues nearly a year to the date he was diagnosed with stage 2 to 3 esophageal cancer.
Union Hall on Franklin Avenue opened in 2019 and has 26 vendor spaces which stay almost entirely full. The food hall is getting ready to add two new vendors, one being its first non-food vendor in the location and the other a popular food truck looking to expand its reach.
The mother-son duo participated in Tri Waco, not only to raise awareness about organ donation, but also to give her son an experience impossible for him to achieve on his own.
83-year-old Bonnie Nutt was walking across a grassy area at the McGregor Youth Baseball Fields with her walker to make it to her car after watching two great grandkids baseball game from Bruceville-Eddy when the youngster from a Bosqueville team rushed to her side.
A country music artist who was thrust into the national spotlight as a top contender on Season 4 of NBC’s The Voice in 2013 says she’s grinding harder than ever before releasing an album that took tons of hard work and side jobs to make happen.
The 12-year-old softball team, which consists of nine of the 12 returning players from the title team in 2022, beat their competition in three games with a combined score of 63-0 at the sectionals round this past week in Graford just outside of Mineral Wells.
A 1960 Olympic gold medal winner who also once graced the cover of Sports Illustrated is making a stop in Central Texas hoping to get more people signed up to be a potential blood stem cell or bone marrow donor, an act which saved his life.
Dr. Timothy Welter admits the job has been stressful dealing with everything from gunshot and stabbing victims to poisons and attempted suicides but says it’s truly been an honor to serve local patients in their most desperate of times.
Aaron Gerik, 11, is attending Camp Dreamcatcher in Burton through Baylor Scott and White McLane Children’s Hospital. The camp has a mission to “help children with cancer who want to feel normal” and includes specialized medical care for the kids.
Adolph Polansky grinned ear to ear as fellow West native and friend Donna Beckham sang “Happy Go Lucky Polka” to him at the West Rest Haven Nursing home.
Leah Cox, broker and owner of Kelly, Realtors and realtor Devin Forbes also of Kelly, Realtors, were presented the honor while in Washington, D.C., for the 2023 Realtor Legislative Meetings.
Hundreds of fans are packing into local ballfields this week as the road to the Little League World Series gets underway for area teams, two of which are defending world champs.
Brandon Ivy, 49, was surprised with the patches on his Letterman jacket during a dinner out with his wife of one year, Leeann, her daughter and Brandon’s two daughters.
Tami Nutt visited the Kendra Scott store in the Central Texas Marketplace in Waco to search for the perfect heart necklace to commemorate her survival after having a heart attack in January.
A group of volunteers mentoring area youth with everything from discipline to academics and leadership says they’re thankful a local restaurant not only opened their doors for an awards banquet on their day off but took care of most of the expenses.
2023 Copperas Cove graduate Elise Fuselier, 17, was one of only 15 students of five million statewide awarded the Texas Education Agency’s Student Hero Award.
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