GALVESTON (AP) - A massive Hurricane Ike ravaged southeast Texas early Saturday, battering the coast with driving rain and ferocious wind gusts as residents who decided too late they should have heeded calls to evacuate made futile calls for rescue. More...
Motorists and potential customers were turned away from gas pumps at Brookshire's Friday afternoon as the company braced for an anticipated gasoline shortage and reserved its fuel supply for employees only. More...
Kilgore deposited another sales tax allocation check this week that exceeded the milliondollar mark, bringing total sales tax allocations for the year to $8,474,810.72 — more than 18 percent higher than the yearto date total of $7,144,033.34 at this time last year. More...
Kilgore Lions Club met on Thursday to remember those who lost their lives in the attack on this country on Sept. 11 seven years ago . After a moment of silence, Lion Tom King introduced members of the Kilgore Police Department and Kilgore Fire Department who were on hand for the event. More...
DEVELOPMENTAL Anderson County In a lease two miles northwest from Slocum, in the Delaney Branch (Wilcox) Field, the Burnett Well No.1 will be drilled by Wilson, Don H., Inc. This well will be drilled to bottom at 3,000-feet in the Martin, P Survey, A-41. More...
The Lambda Alpha Sigma aviation fraternity at LaTourneau University held its Bi-Annual Fly In at Kilgore Community Airport last Saturday. Weston Cartwright, president of the fraternity said the fly in is held each semester. "We have a cook out and invite other students to come out and look at the planes," said Cartwright. "We also give rides, some students have never been in a small aircraft before." The airfield is owned by Dana Sneed, a teacher at Maude Laird Middle School and also a pilot. Sneed lets the students use the airfield for free and he also gave rides in his plane during the fly in. More...
What happens when we break a law of God? Is the law damaged? Does it chip, crack, bend, or shatter? Does it suddenly cease to operate? Consider for example, a person who tries to break the law of gravity. A deluded person might jump from a second-story balcony convinced that he can fly. But in violating the law of nature, he himself is broken. The law remains untouched. More...
TYLER — It's been a while since they were able to say this, but New London has themselves a pretty good football team, and through three games, they're undefeated. Game three wasn't necessarily pretty, but they are undefeated. More...
Services for Mrs. Jennifer Nancy Cardamone-Slone, 26, of Kilgore will be held Monday, September 15, 2008 at Ten A.M. in the Chapel of Rader Funeral Home of Kilgore with Reverend Kirby Fitzgerald officiating. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Sunday from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. More...
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