A balloon release was held at Kid's World in recognition of Child Abuse Awareness Month. Detective Roman Robertson presented a safety program to approximately 40 children and distributed child safety booklets. Mayor Joe T. More...
"Do this, don't do that. Can't you read the sign?"
By KATHRYN MARTINEZ news1@kilgorenewsherald.com
Signs were on the agenda again last night at Kilgore City Council and residents turned out to speak their piece about the issue. "We all want to keep our pretty little town pretty," Linda Brotherton, who is deeply bothered by Kilgore's sign ordinance, said. "Fine the ones that do not pick up the signs, not those that may be having a yard sale to make ends meet. More...
The Main Street program is taking steps to unify the downtown area. Fallon Burns, Main Street program manager, said the cement planters downtown are slated for a coat of paint in an effort to tone down the industrial feel of the bare cylinders. The planters will be painted sandstone and planted in three tiers. More...
AUSTIN (AP) - Texans would be required to show more identification at the voting booth to prove they are who they say they are under a measure that won preliminary approval in the state House on Monday. Existing state law allows voters to simply show their voter registration card or, if they don't have it, show identification to have their name matched to voter registry rolls. More...
MOSCOW (AP) _ Hundreds of mourners _ some weeping, many clutching flowers _ filed past the open casket of former President Boris Yeltsin in a soaring cathedral Tuesday, paying tribute to a man who brought epochal changes to Russia but left behind a tarnished legacy. The United States announced it would send former Presidents George H.W. More...
DEAR ABBY: You asked readers to share their pet peeves with you. Mine is careless drivers. I am a single mother who supports her children. I can't afford to be killed or maimed on the road. This afternoon I was behind a woman who was driving erratically. She rolled through stop signs, sped up and slowed down for no apparent reason, and switched from lane to lane. More...
Kilgore won 4-3 on Saturday; now alone in third; hosts Henderson tonight
A rare Saturday baseball game in District 12-4A was arguably the biggest game of the season to date for the Kilgore High School Bulldogs and Hallsville High School Bobcats. And this week, to borrow terminology from "Smokey and the Bandit," it allows Kilgore to be the pursue-ee, not the pursu-er. More...
Mass of Christian Burial will be held for Eva Louise Rieke Shore, 99, at 2pm on Wednesday at Christ the King Catholic Church in Kilgore with the Reverend Father Michael Adams and Reverend Father Matias Rodriguez officiating. Burial will be in Kilgore City Cemetery. More...
KC Ag. Club wins big at State Convention 