November 22, 2005 RSS feed / Front Page

KILGOROUND

FORGIVE ME FOR STARTING Kilgoround with a sports item... More...

News

TURKEY WINNERS

WalMart provided free turkeys yesterday to winners of the News Herald More...

The Golf Tournament Committee of the East Texas Chapter of American Petroleum Institute recently presented a $25,000 check for the general API scholarship fund and a $15,000 check to Kilgore College for the Don Kruse API Scholarship. More...

KEDC meets today

Improvements and development of three Kilgore industrial areas tops the agenda for the Kilgore Economic Development Corporation (KEDC) board. More...

Advice & Entertainment

Rude cell phone use requires new etiquette

DEAR ABBY

DEAR ABBY: I%27m writing about cell phone conversations in a public eatery. Granted, most of the time it can be avoided and should be. However, there are exceptions, and bystanders should not be so judgmental. More...

Drooling spoils many peoples’ social life

YOUR HEALTH

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am an 84-year-old man in good health. For the past two years I have had a drooling problem from the right side of my mouth. It drips like a leaky faucet. More...

HOROSCOPE

FORECAST FOR WEDNESDAY, NOV. 23, 2005

ARIES (March 21-April 19) With your energy, the morning More...

Obituaries

DORRIS M. REESE

Funeral services for Dorris M. Reese, 92, of Mt. Enterprise are pending with Southern Funeral Home of Henderson. Mrs. Reese passed away Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2005 at Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital. More...

MELANIE WEST FITZGERALD

Services for Melanie Fitzgerald, 24, of Kilgore were Monday, Nov. 21, 2005 in First Baptist Church in Anacoco, LA, with Rev. Durhl Davis officiating. More...

ENNIS CALLOWAY

Funeral services for Ennis Calloway are pending with Citizens Funeral Home. Mrs. Calloway passed away Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2005. More...

Gregg County okays tax abatement for Trinity Industries

Gregg County joined the city of Longview in granting the execution of a tax abatement for the Trinity Corporation. More...

School property tax said unconstitutional

AUSTIN (AP) The Texas Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that local property taxes used to pay for public schools amount to an unconstitutional statewide tax and has given the state until June 1 to fix the system. More...

Morning Fuel Prices

Oil Price/barrel Change NYMEX Crude $58.45 $00.75 IPE Crude $56.11 -$00.737 Dated Brent $54.21 $00.73 WTI Cushing $58.20 $00.95 More...

Our World

Against the tide on Iraq

WASHINGTON POST

As demonstrated by the fierce White House counterattack in recent days on critics of the Iraq war, no one has more riding on the outcome of that war than President Bush, the man who sent U.S. forces into Baghdad. More...

YOUR WORLD

Full Story

True good fortune

TODAY

FISHTRAP HOLLOW, Miss. -Weeks after Katrina, a friend was walking through the rubble that paved the streets in Pass Christian, Miss. He found, sealed and intact, the first installment of Ken Burns%27 documentary "The Civil War." More...

Sports

Kilgore advances in playoffs with 40-11 win over Nederland

Will face La Marque on Saturday in Conroe

LUFKIN -- Early on in Saturday afternoon's Class 4A Division II area playoff game between Kilgore and Nederland, Nederland's defensive strategy was obvious: try to slow Kilgore's running attack and make the Ragin' Red throw the football. More...

Move over, Nederland

Kilgore routs NHS, secures rematch against La Marque

LUFKIN More...

Wanna ride?

KHS football boosters club will charter buses for fans for Saturday More...

For The Record

POLICE BEAT

INCIDENTS FRIDAY Animal Bite, 1217 Oak Dr., Laird Memorial Hospital-ER, Sandra Degeurin reported same. Reported at 4:58 p.m. by Officer Dee Brown. More...