BELTON — A massive indoor lettuce farm in Belton is about to get much larger.
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Temple residents Anthony and Donna Gerakos know that they want to build a new home.
A Rogers Dollar General store recently donated school supplies to High Point Elementary School in Temple.
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The sprawling hacking campaign deemed a grave threat to U.S. national security came to be known as SolarWinds, for the company whose software update was seeded by Russian intelligence agents with malware to penetrate sensitive government and private networks.
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The Temple Area Builders Association’s annual Parade of Homes kicked off Friday — a six-day ticketed offering that showcases newly-constructed homes in Bell County.
Two months ago, Winter Storm Uri’s frigid trek through Texas left a trail of weather-related damage. Recovery for some will be a slow process.
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Two months following February’s winter storm, Bell County now estimates it has seen an estimated $750,000 in documented damages.
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A South Temple Walmart was briefly evacuated Thursday evening after Temple police responded to an initial report of a male with a weapon.
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The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits tumbled last week to 576,000, a post-COVID low and a hopeful sign that layoffs are easing as the economy recovers from the pandemic recession.
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Temple’s annual Fourth of July fireworks show is coming back with a bang this year.
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Envelopes marked with the city of Temple’s logo, advertising sewer and water line warranties, have confused some local residents receiving them.
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Top Federal Reserve policymakers on Tuesday underscored their concern that Black and Hispanic people are sharply underrepresented in the economics field, which lessens the perspectives that economists can bring to key policy issues.
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More than 300 businesses and investors, including such giants as Apple, Google, Microsoft and Coca-Cola, are calling on the Biden administration to set an ambitious climate change goal that would cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50% below 2005 levels by 2030.
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The leaders of three-dozen major Michigan-based companies, including General Motors and Ford, on Tuesday objected to Republican-sponsored election bills that would make it harder to vote in Michigan and other states.
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BELTON — The Belton City Council on Tuesday night unanimously approved a façade improvement grant — continuing its efforts to liven the downtown historic district.
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Secretary-General Antonio Guterres declared Monday that the world's failure to unite on tackling COVID-19 created wide inequalities, and he called for urgent action including a wealth tax to help finance the global recovery from the coronavirus.
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Microsoft, on an accelerated growth push, is buying speech recognition company Nuance in a deal worth about $16 billion.
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New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed legislation Monday legalizing recreational marijuana use within months and kicking off sales next year, making it the seventh state since November to put an end to pot prohibition.
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One of the worst droughts in memory in a massive agricultural region straddling the California-Oregon border could mean steep cuts to irrigation water for hundreds of farmers this summer to sustain endangered fish species critical to local tribes.
BELTON — West Temple area resident Savannah Stroud said she’s seen an increase in crime in her neighborhood as a result of local game rooms.
BELTON — Need to dispose of old tires? The city of Belton will hold a tire disposal event from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and 8 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Bell County Expo Center, 301 W. Loop 121 in Belton.
