Kilgore Police Department received a $2,700 grant from the Texas Association of Property and Evidence Inventory Technicians to purchase a bar-coding system to track evidence and maintain complete chainof custody records. Angela Burch, KPD property and evidence officer, right, accepted the grant on behalf of the department during a recent TAPEIT convention in Corpus Christi. KPD Captain Randy Hancock, left, and Burch said the new system will be a great asset in Photo by Brenda Brown cataloging evidence in KPD's property room, constructed two years ago in order to centralize evidence and property then located in seven different rooms and storage buildings. Officer Burch said TAPEIT, formed 10 years ago, promotes professional education, laws, rules and guidelines for maintaining the integrity, chain of custody and disposal of property and evidence. More...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Eighty-yearolds with clogged arteries or leaky heart valves used to be sent home with a pat on the arm from their doctors and pills to try to ease their symptoms. Now more are getting open-heart surgery, with remarkable survival rates rivaling those of much younger people, new studies show. More...

DEAR ABBY: "Hurt in Sacramento" (Aug. 27) wrote that her sister told her that the only reason she existed was because her dad had been trying for a boy after having three girls. Tell her to trust me -- this is a rite of passage. More...

The Kilgore College Rangers put up 42 points on one of the nation's best defenses on Saturday in a hard-fought Southwest Junior College Football Conference playoff game. Unfortunately, the Rangers came out on the wrong end. More...

Graveside Services for Louise Tillman, 82 , of Kilgore will be ten o'clock a.m., Wednesday, November 12, 2008, at Garland Cemetery in Annona, Texas, with Reverend Charlotte and John Austin officiating. Family will receive friends at the funeral home Tuesday, November 11, 2008, from 6 until 7 p.m. Mrs. Tillman died Saturday November 8, 2008, in Longview. More...