Missouri is home to many towns, cities and villages with odd or interesting names.

A Calhoun woman was injured Wednesday after rolling her vehicle on state Route 52 in Henry County, the Missouri State Highway Patrol reported.

A Calhoun man died Friday morning when he suffered a medical episode and crashed his vehicle into a fence in Henry County, the Missouri State Highway Patrol reported.

Jetta Carleton opened her 1962 novel The Moonflower Vine by describing a family farm in western Missouri, below the river.Its a land, she wrote, cut by creeks, where high pastures rise out of wooded valleys to catch the sunlight and fall away over limestone bluffs.

Calhoun is a tiny town with a big heart. The town, located just outside of Windsor in Henry County, is home to about 493 people who have worked hard the last six months to rebuild the building where their children are educated.

Q: Why would a lightning-struck tree glow after being hit? It is not on fire and does not give off heat, but gives off a very visible glow.

It was only a couple of months ago that Calhoun , the quintet spearheaded by singer-songwriter Tim Locke and co-songwriter Jordan Roberts , elected to disband.