Big Oil profits steered to investors
By JOHN PORRETTO AP Business Writer
      HOUSTON (AP) - As giant oil companies like Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips get set to report what will probably be another round of eye-popping quarterly profits, just where is all that money going?
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Chamber of Commerce seeks hosts for Night Out parties
      Eight Kilgore families have already committed to join forces with thousands nationwide for eight separate neighborhood parties on Kilgore Night Out, Tuesday, August 5. Communities across the country participate in the annual National Night Out drug prevention and anti-crime event.
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Troopers seek help in hit-and-run death
      Gregg County Texas Highway Patrol troopers are investigating a fatality accident involving multiple vehicles and a single pedestrian late Monday night on FM 1252, two miles northwest of Kilgore. At 9 p.m. Monday night, troopers and Gregg County sheriff 's deputies responded to a reported vehicle-pedestrian accident on FM 1252 near its intersection with River Road.
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Skinny escapee caught in the pool
      HOUSTON (AP) - A slimmed-down murder suspect who fled jail by slipping through a vent has been caught after a dip in a hotel pool on a hot summer night in Houston. Houston police say Darryl Layne Norris was back in custody Wednesday.
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Researcher says Gulf dead zone bigger than ever
By MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press Writer
      HOUSTON (AP) - A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas-Louisiana coast this year is likely to be the biggest ever and last longer than ever before, with marine life affected for hundreds of miles, a scientist warned.
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