A jaw-dropping moment on the Missouri River turned into the catch of a lifetime for Wally Klein, who reeled in an 86-pound blue catfish near Saint Charles.

What started as a quiet day on the water doing some studying quickly turned into a battle that sent books flying and Wally grappling with this monster all by himself.

Once Wally got the whopper in the boat, he thought, “What now?” Wally shares his hilarious story of calling Conservation and trying to get his dad to come out and take a picture!

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Here’s a great story to tell at parties: Going into a freezer for a week to massage 600 pounds of butter into a life-sized cow.

It’s a thing – every year for the Missouri State Fair’s butter sculpture artist. Alisa Nelson talks to Ander Weis, who has been making masterpieces out of butter for the past five years.

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Archeologists from Missouri State University were excited to find a plantation site near Springfield from the frontier era in the Ozarks.

The Director of the program, Kevin Kupka Head, tells Ashley Byrd about how both the region and the time period are not studied enough.

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