September 26, 2006 RSS feed / Front Page

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Board okays $2.1 million bid for new construction

NEW BOARD MEMBER
By LESTER MURRAY news2@kilgorenewsherald.com
Kilgore school board met last night for, among other things, the swearingin of new board member Mark Dickey. More...

KILGOROUND

MITCH LUCAS

AFTER AN OPEN DATE, the Kilgore High School football team is back in action Friday night here R.E. St. John Memorial Stadium, and this time, it's district play. More...

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Our World

Chevron, Los Alamos team up to develop oil shale

By STEVE QUINN

(AP) Thirty years after quitting one of the nation's most promising yet costly energy resources, Chevron Corp. wants to take another crack at unlocking shale oil from difficult rock formations in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. More...

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Advice & Entertainment

DEAR ABBY

Young Mom's desperate plight arouses outpouring of concern
JEANNE PHILLIPS

DEAR READERS: On Thursday, Aug. 24, I printed a letter from "Going Crazy in San Diego," the 26-year-old wife of a member of the military. More...

YOUR HEALTH

Too many red blood cells create as many problems as many probles as too few cells
DR. DONOHUE

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: My husband just returned from the doctor with a possible diagnosis of polycythemia. Neither he nor I know anything about this. Would you tell us its significance? Is it a form of cancer? I suspect it might be. -W.B. More...

CROSSWORD

EUGENE SHEFFER

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Obituaries

ELSIE BRADLEY

Funeral services for Mrs. Elsie Bradley, age 71, of Henderson, will be held at 2:00PM Tuesday, September 26, 2006, in the Chapel of Rader Funeral Home with Rev. Richard Stillwell officiating. Burial will follow in the Crims Chapel Cemetery. More...

OLIVER CHARLES SMITH

Funeral services for Oliver Charles Smith, 51, of Kilgore are scheduled for Tuesday, September 26, 2006 at 2:00 p.m. in the Colonial Mortuary Chapel in Lufkin, Texas with Rev. Larry Parks officiating. More...

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Vote on fence may come soon

Texans wangling for local participation
By SUZANNE GAMBOA

WASHINGTON (AP) Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist set up a possible vote late this week on a proposal to erect fencing along a third of the U.S.-Mexican border. More...

Trucking school shifts to higher gear

By LESTER MURRAY news2@kilgorenewsherald.com

Kilgore College and Excel Trucking Services earlier this year partnered to offer training for truck drivers. And now the partnership is growing. More...

News

Locals hope to replace Reba - briefly

By KATHRYN MARTINEZ news1@kilgorenewsherald.com

The city of Stars was represented this morning on the Danny and Dru Morning radio show as two local women, participating in a contest on 105.7 KYKX, sang live and on-air. More...

Kilgore National hires new real estate lender for Troup operations

Kilgore National Bank announced this week that Marcus Miliara, vice president, has joined the bank staff. More...

Lung specialist joins staff at Laird Memorial Hospital

David B. Coultas, MD, chairman of the Department of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Center at Tyler and a specialist in diseases that affect the lungs, is now seeing patients in the Harold G. More...

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Sports

The Associated Press' Texas high school football poll

Here is The Associated Press' high school poll after week four, with first place votes in parentheses, records, points based on 109-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1, and the team's ranking in last week's poll: More...

Emotional homecoming ends well for 3-0 Saints

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The New Orleans Saints knew it would be a special night, but the point was really driven home when they pulled into the parking lot at the refurbished Superdome. More...

Bulldogs get second in a row, shut out Judson, 28-0

YOUTH FOOTBALL

Kilgore's East Texas Little League Football Association team won its second consecutive game last weekend, beating Judson 28-0. More...

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