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A former Belton police officer charged during a Bell County prostitution sting last week was recognized by a deputy when he was arrested.
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Fort Hood soldier Cpl. Nakealon Keunte Mosley was served a court order on Aug. 31 concerning a child he had with another soldier. Four days later, on the night of Sept. 4, police say he fatally shot the child’s mother, Sgt. Francine Martinez, soon after she left a Killeen club with friends.
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The Killeen man who is accused of shooting another man in the face during a gun deal in April was on probation for a felony charge at the time of the alleged incident.
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The handwritten letter from an inmate in the Bell County Jail begins like a voice reaching up from the bottom of a well, faint yet powerfully insistent: “To Anyone Who is Listening,” it says.
According to court documents obtained Monday, Killeen police responded to a call about a robbery on Friday at the Family Dollar store, located at 2200 East Veterans Memorial Boulevard.
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An old adage among police says that crime doesn’t stop at a city limits sign. When it comes to tackling Killeen’s escalating gang violence, police at the local and state levels are working hard at working together for one reason: no neighborhood is out of reach of gang-related crime.
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Two motorcyclists were wounded Friday night in a shooting off Interstate 35 in North Temple, police said Saturday morning.
A student wanted in Wednesday’s Shoemaker High School stabbing was arrested Friday, Killeen ISD officials said in a statement.
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A Fort Hood soldier has died after police said she was gunned down by a fellow Fort Hood soldier on a Killeen street during a night out with friends.
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Temple police are searching for man involved in a burglary of a habitation Friday afternoon in the 2400 block of N. 15th St.
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A Belton High School student is jailed after being accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl.
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A former Belton police officer and three active-duty Fort Hood soldiers are among 10 suspects arrested in a prostitution and sex trafficking sting, officials announced Friday afternoon.
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Ten men were arrested, including three Fort Hood soldiers, during what local law enforcement officials call a "John Suppression Initiative Operation," according to a news release from the Bell County Sheriff Department.
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A Killeen woman who was sentenced earlier this year to almost 20 years in prison for armed robbery was sentenced to another prison term earlier this week for an unrelated felony offense.
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A grand jury indicted two Bell County men on unrelated felony charges after police said they molested or sexually assaulted children on multiple occasions.
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After days of testimony in the trial of a man who was accused of murdering his wife last year, it took a jury less than 10 minutes to return a guilty verdict on Wednesday afternoon. On Thursday, the jury deliberated on the punishment for 50-year-old Willis Everett Washington II, deciding on …
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An "altercation" at Copperas Cove High School early Thursday forced students and staff to remain in class as law enforcement detained two students, according to the Copperas Cove Independent School District.
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A suspect wanted in a string of aggravated robberies was arrested Tuesday, according to the Killeen Police Department.
A court affidavit obtained Wednesday showed that 19-year-old Demetris Donal Davis, who police say was responsible for shooting an 18-year-old male who was left in critical condition, was aided by another man, 20-year-old Ahmad Jamal Demps.
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A video of an unidentified Shoemaker High School student with a visibly bloody arm circulated across social media platforms following what school officials called an “altercation” Wednesday afternoon.
A driver on Interstate 14 in Harker Heights was shot by someone in another vehicle Wednesday morning, police said.
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A Temple man remains jailed in a violent attack in which he allegedly beat his ex-wife and tried to gouge out her eyes.
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The damage done by street gangs in Killeen — such as the rash of recent gun-related deaths and injuries — is disproportionate to the relatively small number of gang members, according to a sergeant with the Killeen Police Department who spoke with the Herald.
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Temple Police responded to a shots fired call about 6:20 a.m. Wednesday in the 1400 block of east Barton Avenue. Responding officers were unable to locate any suspects and no injuries were reported.
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BELTON — Without a murder weapon or ballistics evidence, the state’s prosecutors have presented testimony and evidence that they hope will show the “consciousness of guilt” of the man accused of fatally shooting his wife last year in Harker Heights.
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A 19-year-old Killeen man is now in police custody in connection to a shooting that occurred in April, according to a Killeen Police Department release.
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A Copperas Cove man faces a first-degree felony charge after he allegedly assaulted a Temple woman, threatened to kill her and others before he fired shots into the air.
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Two Live Oak Ridge Middle School students were arrested on Tuesday for having a weapon on campus, Killeen school officials said.
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“When will we say, as a city, as a community, that enough is enough?” Killeen Police Chief Charles Kimble said at a news conference Monday night.The chief projected strength and compassion as he exhorted Killeen residents to assist the police in solving a recent spate of homicides.Kimble cal…
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Police in Temple and Belton are investigating weekend shootings — including a mystery incident on southbound Interstate 35 — that injured a total of five people.
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Central Texas police agencies continue to search for a suspected robber who displayed a gun, took money and a car from a West Temple 7-Eleven Sunday morning.
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A Harker Heights woman died after a Killeen man pounded on her door and shot her multiple times, according to a police affidavit released by Justice of the Peace Gregory Johnson’s office on Monday.
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A 5-year-old girl and an adult woman were shot in the 3400 block of Barcelona Drive on Sunday night, Killeen police confirmed.
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A jury trial began on Monday in the case of a 50-year-old man who is accused of murdering his wife last year in Harker Heights.
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The Belton Police Department is investigating a shooting on southbound I-35 Sunday night that caused a car to crash and seriously injured the driver, a 32-year-old man.
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