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Kilgore Guard unit receives seven Bronze Stars

HUMBLE, BUT HONORED
Colonel Randall E. Davis, deputy commander for the 56 Infantry Brigade Combat Team said yesterday at the National Guard Armory in Kilgore that all soldiers deployed to Iraq from that brigade were now back in Texas. More...

KILGOROUND

KATHRYN MARTINEZ

Kilgore's own, Lana Phillips, opens for Robert Earl Keen Saturday night at Canyon Jam '08, hosted by Durango's Canyon - between Henderson and Mt. Enterprise - at the former Rose Amphitheater. More...

News

KC graduates prepare to receive diplomas tonight

A number of local students are among the more than 250 graduates who will pick up Kilgore College diplomas Friday. This year for the first time KC has split its commencement exercises into two ceremonies because of the number of graduates. More...

MLMS students do well in Annual District Science Fair

Tonia Loper said her 8th grade Gifted and Talented Class presented their Science Fair Projects to the students of Kilgore Intermediate School and Maude Laird Middle School yesterday. More...

KC offers Science Investigation Camp

Kilgore College will hold a Science Investigation Summer Day Camp June 9-12, offered to students entering the eighth and ninth grades. Students will view staged crime scenes and try to solve them using chemistry and biology lab techniques. More...

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Obituaries

DAVID ANDERSON PARKER

Graveside services for David Anderson Parker, 70, New London, will be held at 1:00 p.m. Saturday, May 10 in the Overton City Cemetery with Reverend Tommy Harden officiating under direction of Cottle-Pearson Funeral Home, Overton. More...

DANA DISHION CROSSFIELD

Services for Dana DiShion Crossfield, 26, of Kilgore were Two O'Clock in the afternoon Friday, May 9, 2008 in the chapel of Rader Funeral Home of Kilgore with the Revs.Kirby Fitzgerald and Bruce Wells officiating. Mrs. More...

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Merritt named Small Business Person of the Year

A.P. Merritt, owner of Merritt Tool was recently recognized as the Small Business Person of the Year for the Small Business Administration (SBA), Dallas / Ft. Worth (DFW) district, which covers 72 counties of north Texas. More...

U.S. soldier jailed in Mexico on weapons charge

By ALICIA A. CALDWELL Associated Press Writer

EL PASO (AP) - When he crossed the U.S.-Mexico border, Spc. Richard Torres was carrying a small arsenal in his car: an AR-15 assault rifle, a .45-caliber handgun, 171 rounds of ammunition, several cartridges and three knives. More...

Advice & Entertainment

DEAR ABBY

Gold digger's greed is obvious to all but her wealthy fiance
JEANNE PHILLIPS

DEAR ABBY: A man I know is engaged to a woman 20 years younger. I think she's a gold digger, and here's why: She waved his credit card around after he gave it to her saying, "Look what I've got!" (He was not present. More...

YOUR HEALTH

Asthma strikes at any age
DR. DONOHUE

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Isn't it odd to come down with asthma at age 66? They tell me I have it. I had a cough that started this past winter, and it wouldn't go away. It comes in spurts and is always worse at night. More...

HOROSCOPE

JACQUELINE BIGAR

FORECAST FOR SATURDAY, MAY 10, 2008 ARIES (March 21-April 19) You might want to work through a problem, but truthfully, it takes two. You will need to appeal to someone firsthand in order to get the desired response. More...

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Sports

AP SPORTSVIEW

Graduation rate for college athletes rising, report shows
By TIM DAHLBERG

The people who run college athletics took time off the other day from counting the millions of dollars top athletes make for their schools to pat themselves on the back because more athletes are actually going to class. More...

FIRST STEPS IN TENNIS

Kilgore High School tennis coach Jason Maroney (above, in blue, and at right) gives instruction to Aaron Parker (above) and to Jesse Presley as a part of a new junior program for boys in fifth, sixth and seventh grades that runs twice a week througho More...

LOCAL SPORTS IN BRIEF

BY SPORTS EDITOR MITCH LUCAS

HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETICS Sabine athletic banquet Monday The Sabine Athletic Booster Club will host the annual sports banquet on Monday night at the Liberty City First Baptist Church. It starts at 6:30 p.m. Admission to the event is $7. More...

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