September 8, 2006 RSS feed / Front Page

News

MIDDLE SCHOOL TWIRLERS

The Maude Laird Middle School Twirlers took the field last night for the first time as Maude Laird's football team took on Mt. Pleasant in a scrimmage. More...

People, but not dogs, have Trade Center health woes

Scientific analysis have told a complex saga about the health outcomes for thousands of first responders and virtually anyone near Ground Zero when the plume of debris engulfed lower Manhattan five years ago. More...

Jim Woodruff, representing Alcoa, accepts a check

for $550,000 from Bill Adamson of Kilgore Economic Development More...

Obituaries

SUSAN CAROL STOKKE MCGUFFEY

Susan Carol Stokke McGuffey passed peacefully from this life on Sunday, September 3, 2006 in Galveston, Texas. She died in the arms of her loving husband, Patrick. More...

AUSIE JAMES STALCUP, SR.

Ausie James Stalcup, Sr., who would have celebrated his 92nd birthday on Nov. 17, 2006, passed from this life into eternal peace on Wednesday, Sept. 06, 2006, at Wilson N. Jones Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. More...

SHIRLEY ANN MUMPHREY

Funeral services for Shirley Ann Mumphrey, 64, of Kilgore will be 11a.m. Saturday, Aug. 9, 2006 at Kilgore Baptist Church with Bishop O'Dell Lee, Jr. officiating. Burial will be in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery. More...

Study says drug use down among teens

Over-50 group, though, reports higher incidence

WASHINGTON -Fewer teens are abusing illegal drugs, although the rate of illicit drug use among all Americans has remained steady the past three years, according to a government report released Thursday. More...

Reserve officer charged

Cannon spun yarn about carjacking

TYLER (AP) A reserve officer with the Kilgore Police Department told authorities a tale of kidnapping and assault that stretched from East Texas to Oklahoma City. More...

KILGOROUND

I SHOULD HAVE just asked Revard and Suellen Pfeffer to help when I spotted them at the home improvement supply store (that's right, Revard was actually NOT at the office!). More...

Our World

Infighting still dividing Tony Blair's Labour Party despite his promise to leave

LONDON (AP) Bitter infighting flared in Tony Blair's Labour Party on Friday as a former Cabinet official criticized the prime minister's likely successor. More...

Advice & Entertainment

DEAR ABBY

Viagra is clue to dysfunction in marriage of convenience

DEAR ABBY: I found a box of Viagra in my husband's pants pocket while I was sorting the laundry. The box had a prescription label with the date and his name printed on it. More...

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YOUR HEALTH

Medicines should be adjusted for age and weight

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: My mother is 89. She lives alone and drives her car. She had good health until two years ago, when she was put on Altace and Coreg for a fast heartbeat. In the past year, she had only one time when her pulse was 94. More...

Sports

Schroeder's comeback continues vs. Lafayette

COLLEGE FOOTBALL/ TEXAS A&M VS. LA-LAFAYETTE

COLLEGE STATION (AP) - In a sense, Chad Schroeder feels like he's already completed his comeback. More...

MAUDE LAIRD 'DOGS SCRIMMAGE

The eighth-grade versions of the Kilgore Bulldogs faced Mount Pleasant Thursday night in scrimmages at Maude Laird Middle School. The B team defeated the Tigers in the first game, and the A team lost the second game. More...

Kilgore, KC both at home this weekend

HIGH SCHOOL/ JUNIOR COLLEGE FOOTBALL

It's been three seasons - three very successful seasons - since the Kilgore High School Bulldogs played former district rival Mount Pleasant. More...