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Courtesy Photo/CBS - Manfred Zimmer of Copperas Cove rejoices with fellow contestants at winning $1,000 on The Price Is Right. Zimmer went on to win the Final Showcase, worth more than $40,000.

Courtesy Photo/CBS - Manfred Zimmer of Copperas Cove rejoices with fellow contestants at winning $1,000 on The Price Is Right. Zimmer went on to win the Final Showcase, worth more than $40,000.

SHOWDOWN

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Tue, 10/25/2016 - 05:00
By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press   Manfred and Rosa Zimmer decided to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary in a big way by going to California in September, but they had no idea how big it would get when the couple attended recordings of the long-running game show “The Price Is...
CCLP/LYNETTE SOWELL - Mike Blount and Brian Hawkins cut up a tree at the Sunshine Home apartments on Saturday as part of Make A Difference Day.

CCLP/LYNETTE SOWELL - Mike Blount and Brian Hawkins cut up a tree at the Sunshine Home apartments on Saturday as part of Make A Difference Day.

Groups participate in Make A Difference Day

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Tue, 10/25/2016 - 05:00
By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press   Members of Copperas Cove’s Noon Exchange Club and the Exchange Club of Copperas Cove joined forces on Saturday morning to take care of some much-needed tree and brush trimming at the Sunshine Home Apartments on Leonhard Street.
Andrea Gardner City Manager

Andrea Gardner City Manager

Gardner withdraws as finalist for Palestine city manager

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Fri, 10/21/2016 - 05:00
By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press   As of last Friday evening, Copperas Cove city manager Andrea Gardner withdrew her name for consideration as one of three finalists for the city manager of Palestine, Texas, confirmed Kevin Keller, public information officer for the City of Copperas Cove.
CCISD - Mae Stevens Early Learning Academy PTO volunteers created a tree from brown paper and then covered it in more than 100 pink bows. The Tree of Hope was erected to draw awareness to breast cancer. More than half of CCISD schools decorated in pink for October.

CCISD - Mae Stevens Early Learning Academy PTO volunteers created a tree from brown paper and then covered it in more than 100 pink bows. The Tree of Hope was erected to draw awareness to breast cancer. More than half of CCISD schools decorated in pink for October.

PINK OUT

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Fri, 10/21/2016 - 05:00
By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press   As of last Friday evening, Copperas Cove city manager Andrea Gardner withdrew her name for consideration as one of three finalists for the city manager of Palestine, Texas, confirmed Kevin Keller, public information officer for the City of Copperas Cove.

Cove man gets toll for trip through Dallas he never took

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Fri, 10/21/2016 - 05:00
By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press   According to a bill Larry Letzer Sr. of Copperas Cove received, Letzer supposedly rode his motorcycle on the Sam Rayburn Tollway on October 4, 2016, at 7:56 a.m. and was subsequently billed $14 on his TxTag account.

Margaret Litchfield trial series

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Tue, 10/18/2016 - 10:31
By LYNETTE SOWELL Cove Leader-Press   A trial of Margaret Litchfield for the 1999 murder of her husband Raymond "Red" Litchfield begn on Monday Oct. 4, 2106 in Gatesville, Tx of Coryell County.
Margaret Litchfield

Margaret Litchfield

Margaret Litchfield found guilty of murder

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Tue, 10/18/2016 - 05:00
By BRITTANY FHOLER Cove Leader-Press   On Friday at the 52nd district court in Gatesville, a jury found Margaret Litchfield guilty of murdering her husband Raymond “Red” Litchfield back in 1999.
CCLP/BRITTANY FHOLER - Robert Trejo with Zoomagination talks about the kinkajou on his shoulders during Saturday’s 7th annual Eco Harvest festival.

CCLP/BRITTANY FHOLER - Robert Trejo with Zoomagination talks about the kinkajou on his shoulders during Saturday’s 7th annual Eco Harvest festival.

ECO HARVEST

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Tue, 10/18/2016 - 05:00
By BRITTANY FHOLER Cove Leader-Press   Hundreds of people learned about things such as composting, rain water harvesting and different ways to recycle in the Central Texas area when they came out to the 7th Annual Eco Harvest Fest held Saturday morning at the Copperas Cove Civic Center.
CCLP/DAVID J. HARDIN - Kids play a game for prizes during the VFW fall festival which was sponsored by the VFW and VFW Auxiliary on Saturday at the VFW Post 8577.

CCLP/DAVID J. HARDIN - Kids play a game for prizes during the VFW fall festival which was sponsored by the VFW and VFW Auxiliary on Saturday at the VFW Post 8577.

VFW Post 8577 holds fall festival

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Tue, 10/18/2016 - 05:00
By DAVID J. HARDIN Cove Leader-Press   Halloween costumes, games, raffle prizes, a cakewalk, and a silent auction are just a few of the things Cove residents were able to do at the VFW Post 8577 fall festival this past Saturday.

Friends and family testify in Litchfield murder trial

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Fri, 10/14/2016 - 05:00
By BRITTANY FHOLER Cove Leader-Press   The second week of testimony in the trial for the murder of Raymond Litchfield shifted the focus to friends and family of Raymond and his widow, Margaret, who is charged with his murder, at the 52nd district court in Gatesville on Tuesday.