Jury finds two Killeen men guilty in 2015 Walmart parking lot shooting

By LYNETTE SOWELL  Cove Leader-Press  A Coryell County jury found Ta’Darius Davis and Terence Lee Daniel Jr., guilty on Friday in connection with the death of 24-year-old Thomas Gene Smethers after a shooting in the parking lot of the Copperas Cove Walmart on Oct. 28, 2015.

History Channel’s American Pickers returning to Texas

Special to Leader-Press  Mike Wolfe, Frank Fritz, and their team will be returning to Texas to film episodes of the hit series American Pickers throughout the region in December 2017 and January 2018.

Shopping Around

Time for a hypothetical, one in which hopefully none of the names I made up match anything real. Suppose, for a second, that you’re in the market for a new truck. It needs to be something powerful enough that it can haul trailers and cargo without flinching since you’ll likely be using it for work.

Confessions of a (formerly) ignorant voter

Pull up a chair on my porch and hear my confession: I’m not the same voter I was seven years ago.  I was a run-of-the-mill, garden-variety, busy-wife-mom-and-career-woman voter.

City council to hold first public hearing on parking ordinance changes

By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press The Copperas Cove city council is holding two public hearings this evening, the first on a proposed amendment to the 2016-2017 fiscal year budget, and the second for revisions to the city’s code where it concerns parking regulations.

Another German Sausage Fest is in the history books

By PAMELA GRANT Cove Leader-Press Hundreds of hungry sausage lovers converged upon the Civic Center Saturday with many lining up well in advance.

DPS officer killed in I-35 accident was Cove alum

By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press The Copperas Cove High School class of 1973 lost one of their own on Saturday when Thomas Nipper, 63, a trooper with the Texas Department of Public Safety, died after a pickup truck ran into his patrol car while he was making a traffic stop.

Election Day runs from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. today in Copperas Cove

By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press  Voters go to the polls today for the general and special elections for the city of Copperas Cove.  A total of 690 Copperas Cove voters turned out during two weeks of early voting, which ended Friday. Overall in Coryell County, 1,683 voters cast early ballots.

Annual Oakalla VFD fajita dinner feeds hundreds

By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press  Hundreds of hungry diners turned out Saturday evening for the annual Oakalla Volunteer Fire Department on Saturday.  Held the first Saturday of November for decades, the night serves as one of two major fundraisers for the department each year.

VFW Post 8577 gearing up for 48th annual parade

By LYNETTE SOWELL  Cove Leader-Press The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8577 is preparing for the 48th annual Veterans Day Parade, set for Saturday, Nov. 11, at 10 a.m. The event will kick off with cannon fire at the post at approximately 9:55 a.m.  Units categories include civic groups, marching...