SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea recorded more than 8,000 new coronavirus infections for the first time Tuesday as health authorities reshape the country's pandemic response to address a surge driven by the highly contagious omicron variant.
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In the chambers of Killeen City Hall, few phrases are more easily prone to disrupt conversation than “street impact fee.”
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BELTON — More rental assistance could soon be on the way for Bell County residents.
The Killeen Daily Herald’s education reporter, Lauren Dodd, has been promoted to metro editor.
Killeen is expected to receive a little under $2.6 million in sales tax revenue this month, a 15.89% increase from the $2.24 million allocation distributed in January 2021, according to the state comptroller’s office. That’s an increase of about $356,098 to the city coffers over the same mon…
As cases of COVID-19 are on the rise in Bell County, local businesses attempt to find the balance between public health precautions and keeping a stable workforce to remain operational.
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Two members of the Killeen Daily Herald newsroom were recognized recently for their work covering a Harker Heights plane crash.
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Despite a smaller crowd and fewer vendors than normal, dozens of people still walked around sampling and tasting plant-based foods and products during an annual expo Saturday in Killeen.
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The Culture on the Square Jamboree, originally scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. today, has been postponed to 3-7 p.m. Feb. 5.
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The Copperas Cove Chamber of Commerce & Visitor’s Bureau, with support from the City of Copperas Cove and the Copperas Cove Economic Development Corporation, is conducting a Business Census to promote business and economic growth.
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After a 5-2 vote by the Killeen City Council on Tuesday, bars and taverns will be allowed to operate downtown, bypassing a rule that banned bars from operating within 300 feet of a church.
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With so many events happening in the Central Texas area, there’s no reason to not have something to look forward to. It’s always a good idea to confirm with the organizer ahead of time that plans haven’t changed or been postponed as new developments related to the pandemic continue.
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More packages than ever will soon be rolling in and out of Temple after FexEx Ground confirmed that it will move forward on a new distribution center in the city.
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With dirt flying and hard-hats equipped, the Killeen City Council members officially broke ground on the 368-unit NRP Group apartment complex that will be built in north Killeen.
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HARKER HEIGHTS — The Animal Services Division of the Harker Heights Pet Adoption Center spent a better part of the day Monday retrieving deceased grackles from the parking lot of the Super Walmart on Commercial Drive.
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When a shooter opened fire on the Killeen Mall in early December, sending shoppers and mall employees running, the public was left with uncertainty as to whether the mysterious white-gloved gunman would attack again during the holiday season.
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The average price of a gallon of regular unleaded gas in the Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood area was $2.84 on Saturday, which is a cent lower than last week’s average and 87 cents more than it was this time last year, according to AAA.
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In the near future, area customers may begin to see some new spirits show up on the shelves of retailers or behind the bar of restaurants thanks to two men — both retirees from Fort Hood.
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The Bell County Commissioners Court unanimously approved tax abatement agreements Monday for businesses located in the Temple Industrial Park.
With a stroke of a hatchet, Axed Out in Killeen celebrated its second year in business with a ribbon cutting ceremony, hosted by the Greater Killeen Chamber of Commerce.
Downtown may just become a little livelier after Killeen’s City Council workshop meeting on Tuesday.
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BELTON — Bell County officials will consider approving the tax abatement agreement for a Temple business today during their first meeting of the new year.
Killeen is on track to shatter a budgeted 1.5% increase in sales tax revenue established in the 2022 Fiscal Year budget with over $31.5 million in sales tax revenue.
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SALADO — A local brewery is now powered up with a new charging station for electric vehicles.
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Officials with the National Mounted Warfare Foundation have announced that the first phase of construction for the National Mounted Warrior Museum at Fort Hood has been completed.
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Local customers flocked to select stores this Christmas to find gifts for loved ones and make up for last year’s canceled gatherings by decorating with more holiday-themed items.
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HARKER HEIGHTS — An annual tradition continued Saturday as dozens of people gobbled up hot meals of turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, green beans and rolls — all for free, to boot — courtesy of Ma’s Place, a restaurant in Harker Heights.
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HARKER HEIGHTS — The Market Heights Plaza teemed with shoppers Friday hurriedly making final purchases before Christmas. Dozens of people could be seen constantly going in and out of stores in the shopping center, such as Target and Ulta.
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A Killeen-based pain clinic and surgery center Thursday denied allegations brought against it in a civil lawsuit that said the medical providers engaged in fraudulent overbilling, instead saying that the settlement that was reached recently is a result of overpayments made over several years.
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The Flavors of Central Texas, an annual culinary event in Killeen, will be taking on a new format in 2022 by going digital.
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Amidst a pandemic, Killeen has reached a record high for annual revenue collected by the state as part of the hotel/motel occupancy tax.
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AdventHealth-Central Texas in Killeen recently welcomed three new members to its hospital board.
A new Burger King in Killeen is being built in the plaza next to the H-E-B on Stan Schlueter Loop.
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Texas motorists received the gift of the nation’s lowest gas prices just days before Christmas.
The Killeen coffee industry keeps growing as two new coffee shops are scheduled to be open early 2022.
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WACO – A defense contractor has agreed to pay more than $1.9 million to resolve allegations the company’s negligence caused a 2014 jet fuel spill at Fort Hood, U.S. Attorney Ashley C. Hoff of the Western District of Texas announced Wednesday.
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Two Killeen medical clinics are on the hook for more than $836,000 to the United States and the state of Texas, federal officials announced Tuesday.
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A month-long food drive involving restaurants in Temple and Belton and a food delivery service netted 200 pounds of donations to a local food pantry.
A Victoria, Texas-based auto group has purchased several Killeen car dealerships currently known as the Automax franchise.
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The Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives added Whitney Theriot, Temple Chamber of Commerce chief operating officer, to its prestigious 40 under 40 list on Nov. 19.
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The average price of a gallon of regular unleaded gas in the Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood area was $2.83 on Saturday, which is 2 cents lower than last week’s average and 93 cents more than it was this time last year, according to AAA.
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A $21 million expansion to a Temple manufacturing facility is now one step closer to construction this week.
The U.S. Army has appointed Killeen business owner Abdul Subhani as civilian aide to the Secretary of the Army for the second term in a row.
Killeen and College Station were the focus of a letter sent to United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby prior to a congressional hearing Wednesday.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Nearly two dozen sailors on an Australian military ship going to deliver aid to Tonga have tested positive for the coronavirus, officials said Tuesday, raising fears they could bring COVID-19 to a Pacific nation that has so far managed to avoid any outbreaks.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea recorded more than 8,000 new coronavirus infections for the first time Tuesday as health authorities reshape the country's pandemic response to address a surge driven by the highly contagious omicron variant.
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TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares skidded Tuesday following a volatile day on Wall Street. Inflation-fighting measures from the Federal Reserve and the possibility of conflict between Russia and Ukraine are overhanging markets.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The District of Columbia and three states are suing Google for allegedly deceiving consumers and invading their privacy by making it nearly impossible for them to stop their location from being tracked.
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New research suggests giving extra cash to low-income mothers can change their infants’ brain development.
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NEW YORK (AP) — California lawyer Michael Avenatti stole nearly $300,000 in book proceeds from porn star Stormy Daniels to pay employees at his debt-ridden law firm and to fund his personal expenses, a prosecutor told jurors as the once high-flying attorney's third criminal trial in two year…
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota appeals court on Monday issued a mixed opinion in a complicated case contesting one of the key permits that a St. Paul-based company needs to build what would be the state’s first copper-nickel mine.
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A Belarusian hacktivist group says it has launched a limited cyberattack on the national railway company, aimed at impeding the movement of Russian troops and freight inside the Moscow-allied country. It said it encrypted some servers, databases and workstations.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — COVID-19 antibody drugs from Regeneron and Eli Lilly should no longer be used because they don't work against the omicron variant that now accounts for nearly all U.S. infections, U.S. health regulators said Monday.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Contract talks between the biggest freight railroads and unions that represent 105,000 employees are headed to mediation this week after the unions declared an impasse following more than two years of negotiations.
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GENEVA (AP) — Seven environmental activists were cleared or given suspended fines Monday on charges of trespassing and resisting arrest for their roles in a protest against expansion of a limestone quarry in Switzerland, local media reported.
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MIAMI (AP) — Bahamian authorities say a cruise ship that was set to dock in Miami this weekend remained in the Bahamas on Monday, avoiding a U.S. judge’s order to seize the vessel.
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PARIS (AP) — The atelier — the workshop of hands — took the Dior center stage on Monday for a refined show on the first day of Paris couture week, which aims to elevate the work of the house’s behind-the-scenes seamstresses.
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ROME (AP) — A first round of voting in Italy's Parliament for the country's next president yielded an avalanche of blank ballots Monday, as lawmakers and special regional electors failed to deliver a winner amid a political stalemate.
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Stocks recovered from big early losses Monday as investors jumped in before the closing bell.
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A severe snowstorm disrupted road and air traffic Monday in the Greek capital of Athens and in neighboring Turkey's largest city of Istanbul, while snow blanketed most of Turkey and Greece, including several Aegean islands.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has issued its first clean energy loan guarantee, reviving an Obama-era program that helped launch the country’s first utility-scale wind and solar farms a decade ago but has largely gone dormant in recent years.
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MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — Facebook’s parent company Meta on Monday said it has created what it believes is among the fastest artificial intelligence supercomputers running today.
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Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Monday:
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government launched a revamped website Monday — the first day of tax filing season — to help people who were eligible for the expanded child tax credit under last year's pandemic relief bill claim the second half of the payment they were due.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks recover as investors jump in after big sell-off; Dow finishes higher after dropping 1,000 points earlier Monday.
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Benchmark U.S. crude oil for March delivery fell $1.83 to $83.31 a barrel Monday. Brent crude for March delivery fell $1.62 to $86.27 a barrel.
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LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday ordered an investigation into a Conservative lawmaker’s claim that she was fired from a government job in part because of her Muslim faith — the latest allegation of wrongdoing that is shaking the Conservative government and Johnso…
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ELKVIEW, W.Va. (AP) — While making biscuits and meatloaf at a fast-food restaurant during the coronavirus pandemic, 64-year-old Cynthia Nicholson often thinks back to her husband’s coal mining days in West Virginia.
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PARIS (AP) — Top-ranked player Novak Djokovic could be allowed to defend his French Open title under the latest COVID-19 rules adopted by the French government, even if he is still not vaccinated when the clay-court Grand Slam starts in May.
Richard Davis was a bankrupt pizzeria owner when he got the idea for a bulletproof vest in 1969 Michigan.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises is asking its shareholders to help it fight off a hostile takeover offer from “vulture hedge fund” Alden Global Capital.
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LONDON (AP) — The British government announced Monday that it is scrapping coronavirus travel testing requirements for the vaccinated, news hailed by the travel industry as a big step back to normality.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Pacific Gas & Electric is poised to emerge from five years of criminal probation, despite worries that nation’s largest utility remains too dangerous to trust after years of devastation from wildfires ignited by its outdated equipment and neglectful management.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — As the United States grapples with the 5G rollout affecting airlines, a European Union watchdog warned on Monday the EU faces much bigger economic and security threats unless member countries step up cooperation.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Anyone who's bought food, paid rent or looked for a used car recently has come up against the billowing inflation that has engulfed the U.S. economy.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Dow falls 1,000 points to lowest level in 10 months, amid uncertainty over Federal Reserve's response to inflation.
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Activist investor Blackwells Capital is asking Peloton to remove CEO John Foley and consider selling the company just a few days after a media report said the exercise and treadmill company was temporarily halting production of its connected fitness products amid waning consumer demand.
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BEIJING (AP) — Less than two weeks before the opening of the Winter Olympics, a few dozen COVID-19 cases in Beijing have prompted authorities to test millions of people in the capital and extend that to anyone buying cold medicine.
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PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo on Monday tightened COVID-19 measures for people coming into the country amid a surge in coronavirus infections.
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MADRID (AP) — The body representing Catholic bishops in Spain has acknowledged that nearly 1,000 real estate properties across the country were registered as possessions of the Church despite having no proof of ownership or clearly belonging to others.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — With inflation punishing consumers and threatening the economy, the Federal Reserve this week will likely signal its intent to begin raising interest rates in March for the first time in three years. The Fed's challenges will get only harder from there.
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GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization's director-general on Monday warned that conditions remain ideal for more coronavirus variants to emerge and it's dangerous to assume omicron is the last one or that “we are in the endgame.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Kohl’s confirmed that it has been approached about a possible sale of the department store chain, sending shares up more than 30% in early trading Monday.
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BOSTON (AP) — The internet watchdog Citizen Lab has been remarkably effective in calling to account governments and private sector firms that use information technology to put people in peril.
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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus' president has scrapped plans to grant free-of-charge, around-the-clock use of state-financed luxury vehicles to top civil servants amid a public outcry over a perceived waste of taxpayers’ money, a government spokesman said Monday.
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After spending one weekend in second place, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” proved it still had some fight left. Sony's superhero juggernaut swung back to first place in its sixth weekend in theaters and became the sixth highest grossing film of all time, globally.
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LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday won the first stage of his effort to overturn a U.K. ruling that opened the door for his extradition to U.S. to stand trial on espionage charges.
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NEW YORK (AP) — CBS News says it is retooling its streaming service to better incorporate programs and personalities from the television network.
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