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Updated: Oct. 23, 2020 at 1:29 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
The ongoing threat of COVID-19 isn't getting in the way as a local group makes sure special needs kids and their families enjoy a trick-or-treating experience.
Updated: Oct. 22, 2020 at 3:00 PM CDT
A veteran Central Texas runner helped shepherd her daughter through some of the darkest hours of a grueling cross-country race through rugged terrain covering portions of two states.
Updated: Oct. 21, 2020 at 6:46 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
The staff of the Art Center of Waco is getting creative to adapt, survive and thrive amid the ongoing threat of COVID-19.
Updated: Oct. 19, 2020 at 3:27 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
A group of runners in Central Texas will be pounding the pavement across the city and praying through the month of November in an event called Run Pray Waco.
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Updated: Oct. 16, 2020 at 4:54 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
A local school district and a Central Texas nonprofit are teaming up to help homeless teenage students impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Updated: Oct. 15, 2020 at 7:16 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
A Central Texas car dealership is footing the bill for mammograms for dozens of women in need.
Updated: Oct. 14, 2020 at 5:44 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
A Central Texas nonprofit that works to get residents into houses they own or quality rentals says interest is skyrocketing as people spend more time at home during the COVID-19 crisis.
Updated: Oct. 13, 2020 at 7:39 PM CDT
A Central Texas man caught in a now viral photograph as he gave a homeless resident an impromptu haircut along the side of a busy local road is an ex-convict who’s turned his life around, working with what God has given him.
Updated: Oct. 12, 2020 at 3:58 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
A donated pool table worth about $4,000 could be just what it takes to get veterans talking with a counselor at a local help center.
Updated: Oct. 8, 2020 at 3:46 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
A local bride got the surprise of her life just moments before walking down the aisle.
KWTX 10 Day Forecast
Updated: Oct. 7, 2020 at 5:12 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
A local nonprofit which helps provide services for children and adolescents who have emotional or behavioral difficulties has been chosen as a TFNB Charity Champion.
Updated: Oct. 2, 2020 at 6:22 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
For nearly a year the trash bins nearly 100 residents of one small Central Texas town dutifully roll out to the curb once a week have almost magically reappeared next to their homes after the refuse truck makes its rounds.
Updated: Oct. 1, 2020 at 4:50 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
Former Lady Bears standout Lauren Cox and Grammy-nominated country star Eric Paslay headlined an online fundraiser for diabetes research that raised more than last year’s in-person event.
Updated: Sep. 30, 2020 at 7:46 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
The operators of a small town Central Texas Dairy Queen weren’t about to let a junior high school principal pay for the treats she wanted to buy for her teachers.
Updated: Sep. 29, 2020 at 1:51 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
Two lifelong best friends, both with, Down syndrome, are back in the classroom and catching up with classmates after starting the new school year online at home.
Updated: Sep. 28, 2020 at 3:34 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
A young Central Texas cancer survivor served up snow cones over the weekend and raised more than $400 for St. Jude Children's Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., the leading hospital in the world for treating children with cancer.
Updated: Sep. 25, 2020 at 3:43 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
A die-hard Baylor fan who says she's only missed a handful of games since 1958 will be in the stands when the Bears take on Kansas Saturday, but in the form of a cardboard cutout.
Updated: Sep. 24, 2020 at 5:44 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
A young Central Texas girl with a rare condition that causes hair loss has been honored for her volunteerism.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2020 at 6:22 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
Members of a local Boy Scout troop stepped up to help out a local food pantry where demand has never been greater because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2020 at 8:54 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
One small Central Texas town carried on with a big annual tradition over the weekend, with changes made with COVID-19 in mind.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2020 at 6:23 PM CDT
Work has started on the restoration of a classic car owned by a local teenager who shared a dream with his late father to own a vintage Chevy Impala like the model featured in a popular TV show.
Updated: Sep. 17, 2020 at 3:24 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
The early days of a very different school year have gone well, a local elementary school principal says.
Updated: Sep. 16, 2020 at 6:24 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
Teachers at a local middle school are getting some help to make sure their voices aren’t muffled behind their face masks thanks to the school's Beta Club and Student Council.
Updated: Sep. 15, 2020 at 4:50 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
A unique sculpture that’s part of an international exhibit represents a local woman’s fight to recover after a freak fall that left her paralyzed.
Updated: Sep. 14, 2020 at 3:57 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
A Central Texas high school senior battling cancer was crowned homecoming queen from her hospital bed as she appeared on the screen of an iPAD her mom and older brother carried onto the field at halftime.
Updated: Sep. 10, 2020 at 5:24 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
The simple wish of a Central Texas teenager who not only survived a freak boating accident that claimed the life of his father, but also a rare form of cancer that required multiple surgeries and years of treatment will finally be fulfilled, thanks to the kindness of family, friends and strangers.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2020 at 3:52 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
For a fourth year, a local dentist’s office plans to give a new smile to someone who makes others smile.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2020 at 4:50 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
An autistic man who was taken in by a former local teacher whose name was all he was able to provide deputies who found him wandering the streets a year ago contributed all of his vacation savings to help a Louisiana hurricane victim.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2020 at 11:33 AM CDT
|By Julie Hays
A Central Texas man and his wife celebrated two milestones over the weekend; their 70th anniversary, and his 90th birthday.
Updated: Sep. 4, 2020 at 5:41 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
KWTX has an extra set of eyes on games under the Friday night lights this high school football season.
Updated: Sep. 3, 2020 at 4:38 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
Thanks to a local bank some local nonprofits are getting a helping hand at a time many of them need help most amid the economic stresses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic
Updated: Sep. 2, 2020 at 6:25 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
Some hospital volunteers unable to help out inside of the hospital because of COVID-19 restrictions are still lending a helping hand from the outside.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2020 at 6:36 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
Volunteers from a Central Texas nonprofit arrived Tuesday in Louisiana to help victims of Hurricane Laura.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2020 at 3:13 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
Jalissa Jaral was awarded the $1,000 scholarship.
Updated: Aug. 28, 2020 at 4:40 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
One local high school student has COVID-19, dozens of others face quarantine
Updated: Aug. 27, 2020 at 7:01 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
A Central Texas soldier stranded in Missouri after basic training because of the COVID-19 pandemic surprised his three children in a surprise homecoming that came two months later than planned.
Updated: Aug. 26, 2020 at 4:37 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
A long-standing tradition at a local high school continues even while students are logging in for remote instruction.
Updated: Aug. 25, 2020 at 5:34 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
Country star Aaron Watson made a special delivery to the younger brother and twin sister of a young Central Texas girl whose battle with cancer touched his heart.
Updated: Aug. 24, 2020 at 5:28 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
Two Central Texas girls with Down syndrome who’ve been best friends for more than a decade started school Monday from home, but are hoping they can soon return to the classroom.
Updated: Aug. 21, 2020 at 5:36 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
A breakfast club called “The Cluckers” made sure that the 100th birthday of a longtime member of the group was one to remember.
Updated: Aug. 21, 2020 at 12:19 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
Teachers may have thought they were seeing quadruple as a former Central Texas woman sent her quadruplets off to kindergarten this week.
Updated: Aug. 19, 2020 at 7:26 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
A Central Texas nurse diagnosed with cancer in 2019 has completed treatment and is preparing to return to work with a deeper understanding of what it’s like to be a patient.
Updated: Aug. 18, 2020 at 5:32 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
Pretty much the whole town turned out to celebrate a lifelong resident’s 87th birthday.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2020 at 5:42 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
A Central Texas boy has even more reason to celebrate his seventh birthday this weekend because he's also marking the end of more than 1,000 days of cancer treatment.
Updated: Aug. 7, 2020 at 3:54 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
In the midst of a virus that forces people to stay apart, some residents of one local neighborhood decided to turn a fence into a bridge in order to spend time together while staying physically distanced.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2020 at 5:17 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
A Czech-inspired brewery, restaurant, bakery and boutique hotel is taking shape in Central Texas despite hurdles resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Updated: Jul. 31, 2020 at 6:15 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
A local nonprofit that provides sports for those with special needs in the area is living up to its name, even in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic which has greatly affected members of the special needs community, many of whom fall into high risk categories, by continuing on with fall sports, virtually.
Updated: Jul. 30, 2020 at 5:45 PM CDT
|By Julie Hays
A local realtor celebrated his birthday this year by asking for donations to a program at his former high school that aims to fill the Christmas wishes of students in need and Wednesday he announced he’s giving the project $5,000.
Updated: Jul. 30, 2020 at 10:04 AM CDT
|By Julie Hays
A group is surprising some essential front-line workers who aren’t often recognized with free pizzas this week.
Updated: Jul. 29, 2020 at 10:40 AM CDT
|By Julie Hays
A local SWAT team commander and helicopter pilot who thought he was simply worn out from work, but then ended up spending nearly a month in the hospital battling a severe case of COVID-19 says he’s thankful to be alive.