Around 50 people gathered at the Killeen Mall on Saturday for the grand opening of the new, expanded women’s section at Dillard’s.

Co-owners of a local business recently launched her new business expansion both to grow her clientele, and create new opportunities for other business owners.

Black Economic Empowerment Workshop

Since the move to the larger facility in January, Dillard’s Killeen location has offered an elevated level of service to local shoppers, according to corporate spokeswoman Julie Guymon.

A Killeen comedy club hosts a nationally known entertainer for two shows throughout Valentines Day weekend, and looks forward to additional big names to come.

A music record label has opened in Killeen, and it is searching for talented gospel singers.

Killeen-based Lange Roofing has been in business for 27 years. The last three years, however, its employees have retrieved more than its fair share of bullets from area rooftops.

Killeen banker elected to state board

Five openings from custodians to forensic experts were recently posted on the Killeen city website with hourly salaries ranging from $10.07 to $22.64, along with about a dozen other positions with a variety of hourly, monthly and annual salaries.

New Orleans Original Daiquiris is making a push to add locations to Killeen. The daiquiris shop is a New Orleans-based brand that has 35 units throughout the United States, Mexico and the Bahamas, according to information from Kayla Bodel with No Limit Agency in Chicago.

After it closed five years ago, a Killeen nightclub is returning to its former building at the corner of Elms Road and Fort Hood Street.

GreenPal, an app that connects homeowners with local, vetted lawn care professionals, is launching this week in Killeen, according to a press release issued by the company.

The Shine Team Realtors will be moving into the former Bank of America building in the Market Heights shopping center in the coming weeks, according to Jean Shine, the owner of Shine Team Realtors.

It doesn’t need more than a food mart, a tattoo shop and the new Hangover Bar & Grill to make the strip mall on the 100 block of West Elms Road in Killeen busy.

Killeen residents gathered at Chick-fil-A, 1400 E. Central Texas Expressway, in Killeen to play bingo on Saturday morning.

Killeen chamber networking

Medications and dietary supplements go hand in hand with healthy living standards. But sudden price changes in prescription and over-the-counter-medications can influence the health of many.

New year’s resolutions often include approaches to healthier living – but most of them don’t stick very long. To incorporate new ways of living healthy, happy and balanced, the Killeen counsel and wellness center Butterflies Prosperity Wellness Co. invites the public to a Day of Positive Liv…

Killeen Realtor honored for exceptional performance

HARKER HEIGHTS — A husband-and-wife team who were honored with the Harker Heights Chamber of Commerce’s Small Business of the Year award thought they were just attendees at the chamber’s annual banquet last week.

Representatives from Smile Doctors Braces in Harker Heights were all smiles after being honored with the Large Business of the Year award by the Heights Chamber of Commerce at the annual banquet and ceremony last week.

Habitat for Humanity fundraiser

TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday indigenous barricades that are blocking rail service across Canada and hurting the economy have to come down now.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — More than 1,000 people marched through the center of Mexico City on Friday in opposition to the government's largest infrastructure projects.

SEATTLE (AP) — Greyhound, the nation's largest bus company, said Friday it will stop allowing Border Patrol agents without a warrant to board its buses to conduct routine immigration checks.

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — Tom Vilsack, a former Iowa governor and U.S agriculture secretary, will monitor Purdue Pharma to ensure the OxyContin maker does not revive an aggressive marketing effort that critics say overstated the benefits of its opioid painkillers and downplayed the danger of…

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday ordered attorneys for the U.S. Coast Guard and a maritime salvage company to answer detailed questions about plans to remove an overturned cargo ship on the Georgia coast by sawing it into eight enormous chunks.

Deere & Co. had a surprisingly strong first quarter after an extended period in which the tractor and construction equipment maker was bruised by the ongoing trade war between the United States and China.

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Wall Street expects the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates, should that influence the Fed's decisions?

Stocks fell and bond prices rose sharply on Wall Street Friday amid signs that economic fallout from the viral outbreak that originated in China is hurting U.S. companies.

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders broke up a marathon budget summit without a deal Friday and their positions were still so far apart that they could not even decide when to meet again on the divisive issue.

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. home sales retreated 1.3% in January from the prior month, but low mortgage rates helped enable an increase in purchases from a year ago.

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s prime minister said Friday that his country will adopt the euro despite a brief delay in its accession process, and added that this required “absolute consensus” in the country.

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s government announced plans Friday for what it said would be the toughest legislation in the European Union on restricting advertising for on-line betting houses.

Deere had a surprisingly strong first quarter after an extended period in which it was bruised by the ongoing trade war between the United States and China.

MOSCOW (AP) — The presidents of Russia and Belarus discussed their continuing oil price dispute Friday that disrupted steady supplies of oil from Russia to its neighboring ex-Soviet state.

BEIJING (AP) — China on Friday suspended more punitive tariffs on imports of U.S. industrial goods in response to a truce in its trade war with Washington that threatened global economic growth.

BERLIN (AP) — A German court has ruled that the clearing of trees from the site of Tesla Inc.'s first electric car factory in Europe can go ahead, days after it issued an injunction temporarily halting the preparatory work.

LONDON (AP) — Business in the 19-country eurozone has picked up in February from a deep slump, particularly in Germany's big industrial sector, despite disruption from the new coronavirus, a report showed Friday.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Assembly walked back a bill Thursday that would have allowed bars across Wisconsin to stay open later during the Democratic National Convention this summer, tweaking the proposal to allow extended hours only for taverns in the southeastern corner of the state b…

TOKYO (AP) — The outbreak of the new virus threatens to erase $29 billion of this year's revenue for global airlines, mostly for Chinese carriers, as travel crashes worldwide, according to the International Air Transport Association.