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Recall petitions for two Killeen council members over Prop A and the subsequent lawsuit with Bell County failed Monday with the petitions getting only a fraction of the signatures necessary.

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Killeen Mayor Debbie Nash-King is alleging that Patsy Bracey, a former mayoral candidate who was ousted as the Killeen Senior Citizens Advisory Committee chair last year, attempted to bribe her

Candidates from several different local races in Harker Heights and Killeen participated in the panel to sway voters ahead of the deadline to vote.

14 candidates spoke to potential voters about varying issues affecting local community.

Killeen mayoral candidate Patsy Bracey resigned from her position, following allegations of abusing seniors and her power, just hours before the city council was expected to remove her.

Killeen City Council members had mixed reactions to a former city council candidate’s controversial letter to the editor alleging discriminatory actions on the part of the council. Chairwoman of the Killeen Senior Advisory Board and former council candidate Patsy Bracey, 76, of Killeen, wrote a letter to the editor on Wednesday, published in Saturday’s edition of the Herald, which asserted that the seven-member Killeen city council favored one race and culture. “I have great conc...

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Tuesday’s Killeen Council meeting, which should have had a relatively full agenda, in fact lasted only 20 minutes, with over a third of originally scheduled items pulled from discussion. As the 5 p.m. meeting got underway, Mayor Pro Tem Shirley Fleming made a motion to pull all discussion items — nine in total — plus the public hearing from the agenda. The council unanimously agreed to Fleming’s motion. This left only the consent agenda items, which were then approved unanim...

Nick Bezzel, of the Elmer Geronimo Platt Gun and Rifle Club, spoke again to the Killeen City Council at its Monday workshop, expressing his opposition to the police department’s use of no-knock warrants. He called for the city to find an alternative to such warrants, citing the case of Marvin Guy, the Killeen man facing murder and other charges following a 2014 no-knock narcotics warrant served on his home, in which a Killeen police detective was fatally shot. “That’s a failure o...