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Tru Jamaica has temporary Hippodrome quarters. The Hawkesdene mansion is listed again, now for a mere $4.9M. Common Grounds is welcoming crowds on Franklin, and more Waco-area business news.

A dispute over the ownership, control and value of a 1.69-acre parcel of land needed for a new bridge over the Caddo River at Caddo Valley will apparently be settled

Mike Copeland: Splendid Oaks Chocolates is expanding. Interesting building permits abound. Two Lake Waco marinas are on the market. Buckle is leaving Richland Mall for Central Texas Marketplace.

Mike Copeland: Splendid Oaks Chocolates is expanding. Interesting building permits abound. Two Lake Waco marinas are on the market. Buckle is leaving Richland Mall for Central Texas Marketplace.

Of the three dozen or so local news stories that Trib journalists wrote this week, were betting you missed at least one.

With a wave of new coffee shops arriving in Waco, one of the citys oldest, Common Grounds, is plotting its own expansion to a former Whataburger building at 3401 Franklin.

A new judge has been appointed in the civil case involving a former physician who is serving 39 life sentences for sexually abusing dozens of prepubescent girls in Pike and Clark counties.

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The owner of the shopping allegedly is in default on a $2.4 million loan.

A judge recused himself Thursday from a lawsuit filed by victims of a former physician who pleaded guilty last year in Clark and Pike counties to sexually assaulting 31 children.