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October 31, 2008  RSS feed
RED RIBBON WEEK CONCLUDES
Kilgore Independent School District concluded Red Ribbon Week today. All week long, students from every campus participated in many different ways: there was Hawaiian Day, Spirit Day, Blue Day, Twin Day and more, all sending a message to stay off drugs. More...
Promises, Promises: Chasing an elusive pledge
By H. JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) — It will be 35 years next week since President Richard Nixon, responding to an Arab oil embargo, vowed to make the United States energy independent — and do it in seven years. America is still waiting. More...

What the presidents said about energy
By The Associated Press

President Bush and the six presidents before him have all called for reductions in the country's reliance on foreign oil, some promising energy independence that has yet to be achieved. What they said: — "Let us set our national goal ... More...

 Our World
• DAILY DIGEST
MONDAY THE KILGORE HIGH SCHOOL AG BOOSTER CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. Nov. 3 at the Ag Building. TOPS (TAKING OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY) meets Mondays 5:30-6:30 at St. Luke's UMC. For information call Linda Myhand 903-934- 6794 or Linda Brotherton at 903-258-3463. Come join these big losers. More...
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 Advice & Entertainment
• DEAR ABBY
Bad feelings spoil whole bushel of neighbor's apples
DEAR ABBY: Two weeks ago, out of the blue, my middle aged neighbor, "Ed," brought over a bushel of apples from his tree. He told me he didn't want them to go to waste, and he wasn't going to do anything with them. I told Ed I didn't want them, but he left them with me anyway. More...
• YOUR HEALTH
• HOROSCOPE
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 Sports
• article has image Melton thriving on defense for UT
Tech's PK Williams a Cinderella story
Henry Melton's plan to be the next big running back at Texas ended two years ago on a fourth down against Texas A&M. Texas Tech kicker Matt Williams wasn't even in football two years ago. He wasn't even in football two months ago. More...
• LOCAL SPORTS IN BRIEF
• article has image LOGAN TAKES ANOTHER BUCK!
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 For The Record
• Kilgore Police report
Kilgore police officers responded to 33 calls and made one arrest on Thursday. The average call time was 20 minutes. More...
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 Obituaries
• article has image NESTOR SIMON ZAPATA
Memorial services for Nestor Simon Zapata, 74, of Alameda, Calf., will be held at a later date. Mr. Zapata died on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008, in Berkley, Calif. He was born in Piura, Peru, to Andres and Rosa Zapata on Nov. 3, 1933. Mr. Zapata graduated from the University of California where he was employed as a Certified Public Accountant before he retired in 1998. More...
• KANAYA RESHAE HOWARD
• BILLIE ANN KING
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