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McLennan County crossed the 50,000 first-shot threshold on Friday, meaning 25% of our adult population has received at least partial protectio…
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Winter weather has dominated the news cycle in Central Texas for the past 10 days. An ice storm that hit Feb. 11 quickly moved on, but it sent…
On Dec. 17, about 80 health care workers at Ascension Providence Hospital in Waco became the first in McLennan County to receive Pfizer’s new …
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A friend of ours who voted for President Trump on Tuesday casually acknowledged Thursday that his man had almost certainly lost the presidenti…
President Biden has decided to end the war in Afghanistan. He feels it’s time, and so do a lot of Americans.
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