By Jade Ortego Killeen Daily Herald The Salado production of "A Christmas Carol," adapted from the eponymous novel by Charles Dickens, is a holiday tradition enjoyed by people across Central Texas.

A Harker Heights man died in a car accident Sunday after his vehicle collided with a tree off of Farm-to-Market 2484.

Several law enforcement agencies are looking for whoever is responsible for a deadly accident Sunday evening.

Smitten men whose girlfriends have been singing along not so subtly to Beyonc's "Single Ladies" make a beeline to this Salado institution.

Nashville, Tenn.- Singer/songwriter Autumn Boukadakis, who simply goes by the name Autumn, is gearing up for a busy winter.

By Don Bolding Killeen Daily Herald SALADO - If the few hundred Scottish natives who settled the land around Salado in the 19th century could have attended the Gathering of the Clans this weekend, any homesickness they lived with probably would have been swept away in the constant strains of bagpipe music and the views of men in kilts in every ...

By Dave Miller Killeen Daily Herald SALADO - Author, musician and gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman paid a visit to a Salado bookstore Friday to sign books, press the flesh and talk a little politics.

By Alex Byington Killeen Daily Herald SALADO - Playing second-fiddle to girls for the better part of the last decade, there's a changing of the guard taking place in Salado.

By Don Bolding Killeen Daily Herald SALADO - The Institute for the Humanities at Salado completed its four-part Heritage, Heroes and Home series of programs Sunday night with one of its greatest debuts - the first presentation of the Lee Marvin Lectureship for Word and Image.

The program, if it ever becomes mandatory, would be initiated in three phases. Instituting the first phase of a proposed national animal identification program would provide a useful tool for the Texas Animal Health Commission.

The piecemeal expansion of Interstate 35 to six lanes would extend an additional 29.6 miles between Salado and Hillsboro, at a cost of about $1.1 billion, under a recommendation Thursday by Texas Department of Transportation staff.

By Jade Ortego Killeen Daily Herald Debbie Charbonneau, Salado's tourism director, is a busy woman.

Herald/CATRINA RAWSON Aurora Yauk, 8, of Temple takes part in an audience participation activity as Lynn Watson, of the Lewisville Roughneck Gunslingers, demonstrates during the Salado Founders Day Festival Saturday in Salado.

From staff reports The Village of Salado will hold the inaugural Founders Day Festival marking the 150th celebration of the founding of Salado College with a lineup of non-stop events today through Sunday.

Flooding forced the closure of half of the parks and boat ramps at lake Waco. Those areas are expected to be closed for at least two weeks.

The Waco-McLennan County Public Health District will conduct a drive-through, seasonal FluMist vaccine clinic from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday in the parking lot of Waco Charter School, 615 N. 25th St.

In a big white tent pitched near Buttermilk Creek, archaeologists and volunteers are on their knees, scraping away sticky black clay a few tablespoons at a time.

By Matt Goodman Killeen Daily Herald Retired Army sergeant major and Killeen business owner Sam Kanouse died in his Salado home Tuesday from leukemia.

Herald/DAVID MORRIS Stephen Richter carries a fruit parfait with house granola to waiting customers partaking in the final meal of the three-day chocolate festival in Salado.

By Mason W. Canales Killeen Daily Herald NOLANVILLE - The City Council held two meetings on Monday to work on the 2009-10 fiscal year budget.