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Texas-based grocer and retailer H-E-B will no longer charge $4.95 with a minimum purchase of $35 for curbside pickup orders, the company announced in a news release Monday. For free curbside pickup, customers must place an order with a minimum of $35 before discounts, promotions or coupons are applied, the company said. Customers who do not order $35 worth of items will be charged a $2.95 “small basket surcharge,” the release said. “Our goal with H-E-B Curbside is to give Texans an easier, more convenient way to shop for the products they want and need, and we are excited to no...

Local residents are invited to attend a grand reopening event at the Village Square in Killeen next month. Francine Hamilton, the broker and owner of Dwelling Place Realty — a new business at the Village Square on Stan Schlueter Loop in Killeen — is also hosting the reopening event that is welcoming all of the businesses in the square back after COVID-19 restrictions. There are also two other new businesses in the square, Dreams of Beauty by Warnita and Creation Station Learning Academy. The other businesses in the square include Title Boxing, Cinderella Couture Bridal, Mary Dells D...

A Facebook group dedicated to the Interstate 14 Killeen welcome sign has grown to 1,300 followers in less than a month following the unexpected death of Harker Heights High School student Julianna Allen. Allen, 18, died after hitting the sign, located on I-14 near Stan Schlueter Loop, in the early morning hours of April 16. A family friend of Allen, Alexis McDade-Welch, created The “Welcome to Killeen” Sign Facebook group in January. The group is “dedicated to people that have hit (or almost hit) the Killeen sign, and finding out why this keeps happening,” according to the...

Local Samoan residents will soon have a new church in Killeen to congregate. The Samoan Congregational Church of Killeen; aka Samoa-i-Texas (Samoans in Texas), officially kicked off their new building construction on Stan Schlueter Loop, according to a news release from the church. Attendees celebrated with Samoan food, music and dance. Lay Minister Leasina Lefotu opened with prayer and congratulatory remarks followed by group and family photos. Every family was provided a set of personalized hard hats and shovels to break ground with. The event had activities for all ages: inflatables for th...

An 18-year-old woman has died after being distracted by her cellphone and crashing into a Killeen welcome sign on Interstate 14 early Friday, police said. Shortly before 4 a.m., “officers were dispatched to IH-14 westbound in reference to a 911 call about a major crash. Upon the officers’ arrival, they located a white in color sedan on its roof and on fire,” according to a Killeen Police Department news release. “The preliminary investigation revealed that the driver, single occupant, was distracted by her cell phone while driving westbound on IH -14 near mile marker 285. ...