ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida reported 11,275 new daily cases on Friday, about half the number from last month.
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The Warrior Way Commissary at Fort Hood will temporarily close Monday for “repairs and pest mitigation,” officials said in a news release.
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COPPERAS COVE — A closing sale began Thursday morning at Ledger Furniture in Copperas Cove, with dozens of people walking around the large display rooms, looking at and purchasing furniture.
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New vehicle sales in Bell County were down slightly in August compared to the same month last year, but total sales for the year are still significantly higher than year-to-date numbers from 2020.
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BELTON — A new business can now take root in east Bell County, following approval of a tax abatement by county officials.
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Killeen woman Laticia Scott-Suesberry said it was emotional to unveil her invention of an all-in-one hair braiding device in her hometown last week.
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Driving to the H-E-B Plus on Trimmier Road in Killeen, customers will notice orange traffic cones and barriers blocking off portions of the parking lot.
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Killeen will be getting another Dutch Bros Coffee location later this year at 2806 S. Clear Creak Road. The building is expected to be finished in December if there are no delays.
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Local entrepreneur Tony Cooper has been nurturing an idea to bring a large outdoor food and entertainment park to Killeen, and that dream becomes a reality this week as he opens the first phase of Killeen International Cuisine Korner and Artisans Marketplace.
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A Lampasas ice cream and art shop recently donated more than $1,300 to a local soup kitchen.
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Texas A&M University-Central Texas now has a second company to conduct research on its campus, and it has also hired a consultant to help conceptualize the research park the university desires to construct.
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On Wednesday, Texas A&M University-Central Texas and the Fort Hood Regional Economic Development Corporation (14 Forward) will welcome more than 85 industry and community leaders from across the U.S. to the Bill Yowell Conference Center to discuss the ongoing growth of the University Res…
University Research Park and Innovation District Summit to be Sept. 1 at conference center
The shortage of computer chips is delaying the production of new cars with a drastic impact on the market.
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COPPERAS COVE — A slight underestimation by professional competitive eater and Kempner resident Greg Wilson proved costly Tuesday morning as he attempted to finish the 30th of 41 doughnuts and other pastries at Shipley Do-Nuts in Copperas Cove.
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COPPERAS COVE — What began as an interest from watching YouTube videos has turned into a real hobby for Kempner resident Greg “The Savage” Wilson. The 57-year-old will be going for his 71st food challenge win and third overall at Shipley Do-Nuts in Copperas Cove at 9 a.m. Tuesday.
New 2 U Creations to celebrate opening Aug. 23 in Harker Heights
New storefronts, resurgence of old favorites and continued growth are revitalizing retail opportunities at Killeen Mall.
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HARKER HEIGHTS — The Innovation Black Chamber of Commerce dished out 20 business awards at a ceremony Saturday night.
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Agreements and tax abatements between the city of Temple and a natural gas power plant remain energized after the recent sale of the facility.
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Three Temple businesses received varying levels of approval Thursday for permits needed before construction can begin.
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New vehicle sales in Bell County were up significantly in July compared to the same month last year, and total sales for the year are still well over year-to-date numbers from 2020.
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One man will attempt to eat around 33 menu items from Shipley Do-Nuts in Copperas Cove at 9 a.m. on Tuesday.
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COPPERAS COVE - Though it has been open since July 2, Herb Thai, a restaurant located at 414 E. Avenue D in Copperas Cove, celebrated its official membership into the Copperas Cove Chamber and Visitors Bureau.
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Killeen is expected to receive $2.94 million in sales tax revenue this month, a 12.12% increase from the $2.62 million allocation distributed in August 2020, according to the comptroller’s office. That’s an increase of about $320,000 to the city coffers over the same month last year.
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A Belton shopper is now $225,000 richer as the holder of a winning Texas Lottery ticket.
McDonald’s in the Killeen area will be offering a free breakfast combo meal to educators and school employees from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. Wednesday.
Sponsorships and vendor applications available for festival
Recent reports show severe cases of COVID-19 among children are less common than older age groups — but pediatric hospitalizations as a result of the virus are on the rise, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website.
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Owl House Shaved Sno and Snacks, 3301 E. Rancier Ave. in Killeen, held its grand opening Friday, attracting customers with music and food.
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A new business is set to open at 11 a.m. Saturday in Killeen.
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The Killeen City Council gave the tentative thumbs-up on Tuesday to a new neighborhood that will include 446 units including large single-family housing, duplexes and a dog park.
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COPPERAS COVE — What has been a dream for 20 years for Edson “Flex” Florexil is now a reality. He opened his Haitian restaurant Unique Taste on Saturday in Copperas Cove.
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The Killeen City Council continued — and tabled — its discussion Tuesday night of a proposed multifamily rental inspection program that was officially presented last week.
A local honey manufacturer’s products will soon be available on Walmart shelves across Bell County.
Modern Tribe Bookshop selling tickets for Killeen Poetry Slam
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Temple City Council members moved forward with the first of two public readings for its proposed tax rate Thursday evening.
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Back to school shopping kicks off Friday as the state’s sales tax holiday begins this weekend.
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Killeen’s Economic Development Corporation announced Thursday it was getting ready to close a $1 million land sale deal with a local modular construction company.
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After a cancellation by Walmart, the annual Stuff the Bus event to benefit Copperas Cove students will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday at the district’s Service and Training Center, 408 S. Main St., Copperas Cove.
The Killeen-Fort Hood Regional Airport has taken the first step to offering direct flights to Denver with upgrades funded by $1.38 million in federal and local grants.
Annual statewide Sales Tax Holiday scheduled for next weekend
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A project that aims to build a large, modern apartment complex in north Killeen is still on track, and could break ground later this year, officials said at a meeting this week.
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BELTON — A comic book-style flyer announces simply, “We’re back.”
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Responding to the rising number of COVID-19 cases, two health care companies — including Baylor Scott & White Health — announced that they will now require vaccinations for its employees.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida reported 11,275 new daily cases on Friday, about half the number from last month.
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ABIQUIU, N.M. (AP) — At the edge of a sandstone outcropping, Teresa Leger Fernández looks out on the Rio Chama. The river tracks a diverse landscape from the southern edge of the Rocky Mountains through rugged basalt hillsides, layers of volcanic tuff, and the red and yellow cliffs made famo…
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BARAGA, Mich. (AP) — Fred Dakota, whose garage casino in Michigan's Upper Peninsula in 1983 was a milestone for Native American gambling, has died at age 84.
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PARIS (AP) — Tossing diplomatic niceties out the window, France's ambassador to Australia on Saturday described as a “huge mistake” the surprise cancellation of a multi-billion dollar submarine contract in favor of a U.S. deal.
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BEIJING (AP) — An Air France-KLM flight returned to Beijing shortly after takeoff on Saturday after smoke filled the cabin, the airline said.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Revamp the tax code and important federal health care and environment programs. Spend $3.5 trillion over 10 years, but maybe a lot less. Ensure that no more than three Democrats in all of Congress vote “no” because Republicans will be unanimously opposed.
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U.S. envoy John Kerry’s diplomatic quest to stave off the worst scenarios of global warming is meeting resistance from China, the world's biggest climate polluter, which is adamant that the United States ease confrontation over other matters if it wants Beijing to speed up its climate efforts.
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — Martin Diky said he panicked as a huge wildfire started racing down a slope toward his wooden house near Lake Tahoe.
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PARIS (AP) — America’s oldest ally, France, recalled its ambassador to the United States on Friday in an unprecedented show of anger that dwarfed decades of previous rifts.
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A judge formally approved a plan Friday to turn OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma into a new company no longer owned by members of the Sackler family and with its profits going to fight the opioid epidemic.
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PAGO PAGO, AMERICAN SAMOA -- American Samoa reported its first case of coronavirus on Friday.
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CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Federal officials said Friday they will investigate a fiery Tesla crash that left two people dead in South Florida.
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has boasted of barging uninvited into a video conference call hosted by his political opponents.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Under fire for allegations that it bowed to pressure from China and other governments, the World Bank has dropped a popular report that ranked countries by how welcoming they are to businesses.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Dealing the White House a stinging setback, a government advisory panel overwhelmingly rejected a plan Friday to give Pfizer COVID-19 booster shots across the board, and instead endorsed the extra vaccine dose only for those who are 65 or older or run a high risk of severe …
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The Warrior Way Commissary at Fort Hood will temporarily close Monday for “repairs and pest mitigation,” officials said in a news release.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden tried on Friday to hammer out the world's next steps against rapidly worsening climate change with a small group of other global leaders and announced a new U.S.-European pledge to cut climate-wrecking methane leaks.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A former executive at pharmaceutical company Mylan has pleaded guilty to insider trading in the company’s securities, the Justice Department said Friday.
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Wall Street capped an up-and-down week of trading Friday with a broad sell-off that wiped out the major indexes' gains for the week.
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LONDON (AP) — The British government announced a major simplification of its rules for international travel on Friday, heeding complaints from travelers and businesses that its regulations aimed at staving off the spread of COVID-19 were cumbersome and ineffective.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden entered the White House promising to stop the twin health and economic crises caused by COVID-19, but $1.9 trillion and countless initiatives later he’s confronting the limits of what Washington can achieve when some state and local governments are unwil…
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Stocks closed lower on Wall Street Friday, marking a feeble ending to an up-and-down week of trading.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — FDA advisory panel endorses COVID-19 booster shots only for Americans 65 and over or at high risk for severe disease.
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MOSCOW (AP) — Facing Kremlin pressure, Apple and Google on Friday removed an opposition-created smartphone app that tells voters which candidates are likely to defeat those backed by Russian authorities, as polls opened for three days of balloting in Russia's parliamentary election.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday:
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former officials of the World Bank are under pressure after an investigation found that they pressured staff members of the bank to alter data on global business conditions in order to favor China and some other governments.
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SEATTLE (AP) — A Pakistan resident has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for a conspiracy to “unlock” phones from AT&T’s network, a scheme the company says cost it more than $200 million.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Chicago-based aerospace giant Boeing Co. will invest $200 million to begin manufacturing the U.S. Navy's latest unmanned aircraft at MidAmerica St. Louis Airport in a project that could add at least 150 jobs on the company's southwest Illinois campus, officials said Friday.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — FDA advisory panel soundly rejects a plan to offer Pfizer booster shots against COVID-19 to most Americans.
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Benchmark U.S. crude oil for October delivery fell 64 cents at $71.97 a barrel Friday. Brent crude oil for November delivery fell 33 cents to $75.34 a barrel.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota regulators have ordered Enbridge to pay more than $3 million for allegedly violating state environmental law by piercing a groundwater aquifer during construction of the Line 3 oil pipeline replacement.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A host at a popular New York City restaurant was assaulted by three women from Texas after she asked for proof they had been vaccinated against COVID-19, police said.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Public school teachers and staff returning to the classroom in August fueled another impressive month of job gains in California as officials said Friday that the state added another 104,300 jobs on its march to erase an unprecedented pandemic employment deficit.
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BERLIN (AP) — A new report shows the world is on a “catastrophic pathway” toward a hotter future unless governments make more ambitious pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the head of the United Nations said Friday.
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LA PINE, Ore. (AP) — Jack Dwyer pursued a dream of getting back to the land by moving in 1972 to an idyllic, tree-studded parcel in Oregon with a creek running through it.
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House Democrats said Friday they planned to take action next week to suspend the cap on the government's borrowing authority, and the White House ratcheted up pressure on Republicans by warning state and local governments that severe cuts lie ahead if the measure fails in the Senate.
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BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s incoming finance minister signed a contract on Friday with a New York-based company to conduct a forensic audit of the country’s central bank, a key demand of the international community to restore confidence in the crisis-struck Mideast nation.
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BOSTON (AP) — Boston's famous Skinny House has sold for a nice fat price.
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BERLIN (AP) — The world is on a “catastrophic pathway” toward a hotter future unless governments make more ambitious pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the head of the United Nations said Friday.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — As Union Pacific’s CEO, Lance Fritz has had to find ways to keep the freight moving during the coronavirus pandemic as the economy nearly ground to a halt and then roared back to life. Now he is working to help clear up a major backlog in imported shipments.
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TURIN, Italy (AP) — Juventus reported a loss of 210 million euros ($250 million) for the 2020-21 financial year on Friday, attributed mainly to the pandemic’s effect on the transfer market and ticket sales.
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BERLIN (AP) — Berlin's city government said Friday it is buying some 14,750 apartments from two large corporate landlords for 2.46 billion euros ($2.9 billion) — a deal announced a week before local and national elections as the German capital tries to expand the supply of publicly owned acc…
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PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday unveiled a mock-up of the next generation of greener super high-speed trains, known in France as TGVs — four decades after the first TGV was launched.
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