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SUPPLIES FOR SCHOOL

Phyllis Foster, with Kilgore Community Crisis Center, hands out school supplies to sixth-grade student Brent Shankles as his sister, Pali Shankles, looks through her new backpack full of secondgrade supplies this morning at St. More...

Obama's 'no income taxes on seniors' draws critics

By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's plan to exempt some senior citizens from paying income tax is getting bad reviews from tax policy experts. More...

KILGOROUND

MITCH LUCAS

OK, ALL YOU "We-need-rain" people: you were right, but after the last 24 hours, let's at least wait until the end of the week before we start the mantra again, please. More...

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Advice & Entertainment

Long-distance relationship may founder on infidelity

DEAR ABBY
JEANNE PHILLIPS

DEAR ABBY: I have been involved in a long-distance relationship for the past year. I'm crazy about him and have been completely faithful to him. More...

A headache that can blind

YOUR HEALTH
DR. DONOHUE

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Recently I began having severe headaches. I finally drove myself to the emergency room at a nearby hospital and, after numerous tests and a biopsy, the diagnosis was temporal arteritis. The doctors prescribed prednisone. More...

HOROSCOPE

JACQUELINE BIGAR

FORECAST FOR WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 2008 ARIES (March 21-April 19) If you attempt to avoid a situation, you will walk smack into it, causing the opposite effect. More...

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Obituaries

MARY JEAN FLOREY ELLIS

March 16, 1929 - August 10, 2008 Mary Jean Florey Ellis, of Waco, passed away on Sunday, August 10, 2008. She was born on March 16, 1929 in Kilgore to Jess and Rena Florey. She was a graduate of Kilgore High School and Kilgore College in 1948. More...

DOLLIE POOL

Services for Dollie Pool, 77 of Beeville, formally of Kilgore will be 2PM in the Rader Funeral Home Chapel, Wednesday, August 13, 2008 with Rev Riley Pippen officiating. Mrs. Pool died Saturday, August 9, 2008 in Victoria. More...

VIVIAN MORRIS

Graveside Services for Vivian Morris, 87, of Newton, North Carolina, formerly of Kilgore, Texas were Tuesday, August 12, 2008 at Kilgore Memorial Gardens with the Rev. Riley Pippen officiating. Mrs. More...

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ETRA transitions, has fewer flights

By KATHRYN MARTINEZ news1@kilgorenewsherald.com

In a time of transition for East Texas Regional Airport, Gregg County commissioners have agreed to abate list fees for American Eagle operations. More...

Airports brace for slowdowns

By DAVID KOENIG AP Business Writer

FORT WORTH (AP) - From his office overlooking the runways of one of the nation's busiest airports, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Chief Executive Jeffrey Fegan sees the slowdown coming this fall. More...

Kilgore College implements plan to improve reading scores

By LESTER MURRAY news2@kilgorenewsherald.com

The Kilgore College Board of trustees met last night and voted to decrease the tax rate by one cent. The current tax rate is 16.4 cents per hundred dollars valuation and the vote was to decrease that rate to 15.4 cents. More...

Sports

Kilgore's Jess Todd moved up to triple-A

Moved from double-A Springfield, Mo. to triple-A Memphis; one step from the majors
By MITCH LUCAS sports@kilgorenewsherald.com

Somewhere between San Antonio and Corpus Christi on Saturday evening, Jess Todd received an important phone call. It wasn't the call to come up to Major League Baseball and join his home organization, the St. More...

Bell taking in Olympic atmosphere

Becoming a basketball fan; riding with the New Zealanders
By MITCH LUCAS sports@kilgorenewsherald.com

Kilgore native Kenta Bell, in China training for his men's triple jump competition later in the Olympics, isn't exactly twiddling his thumbs and having plenty of time. More...

KHS VOLLEYBALL OPENS SEASON TONIGHT

File photo by Lester Murray Kilgore High School's volleyball teams officially open the 2008 season tonight at Longview High School in a trimatch against Longview and North Lamar. More...

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