The Kilgore Independent School District board of trustees honored Kilgore Intermediate School students for their commended performance on the 2007/2008 TAKS test. Students were recognized for their fourth grade scores in reading, mathematics and writing. Among the honorees were, in no particular order, Thomas Billingsley, Sydni Borders, Jose Chico, Cassidy Daniel, Cynthia Garrett, Logan Gibson, Keithlyn Henry, Jeridiah Lewis, Luke McKellar, Austin Miller, Kyleigh Motes, Korie O'Quinn, Natalie O'Quinn, Grant Payne, Julie Rawls, Olivia Ricks, Clinton Rounsavall, Garrett Shipman, Benjamin Simpson, Rusty Taylor, Draylon Wheat, Austin Word and Kyler Yancey. Some students were not in attendance. More...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tonight's presidential debate offers Republican John McCain one of his last best chances to stop Democrat Barack Obama's recent surge in the race and turn it in his favor. The debate's town hall format is McCain's favorite style of campaigning. More...

DEAR ABBY: The number of fires in the United States has declined over the years, and while that's encouraging, there is still a real cause for concern today. In 2007, eight in 10 people who died in a fire were killed in a home fire. More...

The defenses wouldn't bend against the run, so Kilgore College took to the air to beat Arkansas Baptist, 21-7, in a Southwest Junior College Football Conference contest in Little Rock on Saturday at Quigley Stadium, getting three touchdown passes from Shane Fry. More...

Services for Scharlene Billings, 90, of Kilgore will be 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, October 8, 2008, at the Chandler Street Church of Christ with Chris Vidacovich officiating. Burial will be 1:00 p.m. Wednesday at the Cathedral in the Pines Cemetery, Tyler, Texas. Mrs. Billings died Monday, October 6, 2008, in Kilgore, Texas. More...