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FEMA has boots on the ground in Bell County
Disaster Survivor Assistance Specialists from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have been actively engaging with homeowners and renters who suffered damages from two tornadoes that impacted the Bell County area on May 22. FEMA media relations specialist Nikki Gaskins Campbell extended invitations to local media outlets to join a...
Man accused of sexually assaulting girl, 16, extradited from New Mexico to Bell County
TEMPLE, Texas (KWTX) - Dario Kaimana Hita was extradited from Clovis, New Mexico to Bell County, Texas to face a charge of sexual assault of a child, police said. Shortly before midnight on April 20, officers with Temple Police Department conducted a traffic stop in the 2300 block of W Adams.
Harris School alumni gather for annual reunion
Christopher Smith, chief government affairs officer at the Ford Motor Co., will keynote the annual reunion of the West Belton-T.B. Harris School Alumni Association at 6 p.m. Saturday, June 29, in the Lord Conference Center, 900 College St., on the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor campus. Smith grew up in Fort...
Killeen man to be sentenced in July for hitting man with SUV, fleeing from police
A Bell County district court judge will be sentencing a Killeen man next month after a jury found the man guilty of hitting another man with his SUV before fleeing from police last year. Gabriel Nicholas Ayala, 24, was booked into the Bell County Jail on July 9, 2023, and...
‘Bedrock of our success’: ‘Cooperative wealth’ of black fraternal groups helped fund liberation
A nondescript vacant lot at 214 S. 10th St. in Temple holds a key to black liberation in Bell County. Since Juneteenth is Wednesday, it’s a good opportunity to explore the many black fraternal and charitable organizations that helped sustain and energize freed peoples after the Civil War.
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