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Commission gets report on charter

Latane Speer and the other 10 members of the City Charter Review Committee are happy campers today and the city is a step closer to having an updated city charter. More...

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LOCAL ELECTION RESULTS AT A GLANCE

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KHS grad will present paper at W. Michigan

Jeffrey Leppert, who graduated from Kilgore High School in 1999, will present a project at the 37th conference on senior engineering design projects at Western Michigan University on Nov. 29. More...

Workforce board appoints two new members

Two new members were appointed to the East Texas Workforce Board Monday at a meeting of the Chief Elected Officials Board. More...

Advice & Entertainment

Vindictive sister must be kept at arm’s length

DEAR ABBY

DEAR ABBY: Our family has a serious problem with one sibling. Whenever we disagree with this sister, something "happens" to us. Some examples: I told her she was wrong to have started a fight with another sister. More...

New psoriasis treatments give hope to hopeless

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DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I have a very severe case of psoriasis. My entire body is affected. I have had it for many years, but not this bad. I have tried many different creams and lotions, but nothing is helping. Is there some kind of pill I could take? More...

HOROSCOPE

FORECAST FOR THURSDAY, NOV. 10, 2005

ARIES (March 21-April 19) Knowing when to say little and listen will become one of your great skills. If used today, you will gain as a result. Confusion runs riot during meetings and communication. More...

For The Record

POLICE BEAT

INCIDENTS TUESDAY Fraud Use/Possession of Identifying Information, 3405 Duncan St., Andrea Denise Jordan reported same. Reported at 8:36 a.m. by Officer David Tucker. More...

Local, Texas voters ban gay marriage

Heavy turnout attributed to interest in Proposition 2

Gregg County voters followed the statewide trend in approving eight of the nine proposed constitutional amendments. More...

Charitable here are still giving

In the wake of all the natural disasters and requests for assistance this year, a new term has been coined: Donor fatigue. More...

TxDOT commissioner says I-69 is dead

WESLACO, Texas (AP) Texas must find money to pay for an interstate highway linking the Rio Grande Valley to commercial centers in Mexico and Canada and other road projects without relying on federal funds, state officials say. More...

Morning Fuel Prices

Oil Price/barrel Change NYMEX Crude $58.90 -$00.81 IPE Crude $57.13 -$00.68 Dated Brent $56.86 -$01.25 WTI Cushing $58.90 -$00.81 More...

Our World

DeLay judge shuffle underlines problems

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The judicial shuffle after Tom DeLay More...

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Chavez’s socialism won’t help Latin America `

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Sports

Tough Hughes Springs gets win over KHS in opener

West Rusk holds off Tatum, Sabine Lady Cards get road win at Gorman; boys start next week

New Kilgore High School girls basketball coach Tracy Kincade knew that the Lady Bulldogs More...

Cowboys expect galvanized Eagles

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Obituaries

ADELL JACKSON

Funeral services for Adell Jackson, 74, of Dallas and formerly of Kilgore, will be at 11 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 12, 2005 at Victory Funeral Services Funeral Chapel with Rev. Kelton Wilson officiating. Burial will follow in Kilgore Baptist Cemetery. More...

PAULINE TROBOY

Services for Pauline Troboy, 77, of Kilgore were 10 a.m., Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005 at First Baptist Church with Rev. David Hampton and W.D. More...

HENRY HART

Services for Henry Hart, 74, of Henderson (formerly of Good Spring Community), are pending with Southern Funeral Home in Henderson. Mr. Hart died Friday, Nov. 4, 2005. More...