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December 31, 2008  RSS feed
News Herald photo by KATHRYN PENROSE Richard Till, city parks worker, maneuvers the city's new grapple truck and picks up a discarded Christmas tree found curb-side on Tierra Del Sol Street. The new fleet addition uses one to two city workers to do a job that used to require three to five men. Mike Green, director of community services, said requests for tree pick up may be called in to city hall at 903-984-5081. Trees may also be dropped off at the city yard between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. More...

Though it must have seemed like 45 minutes until firemen arrived, a review of 911 calls regarding a fire outside Kilgore city limits reveals the response time was one-third of that time. Sheriff Maxey Cerliano said he has reviewed his 911 call records out of concern that emergency calls may have been improperly handled from the J.D. Edney residence on the morning of Jan. More...

EL PASO (AP) — With the death toll in the Mexican city of Juarez mounting, the increasingly bloody struggle for control of the city across the Rio Grande from El Paso can now count one more victim: charity from its American neighbor. More...

HOUSTON (AP) — A man recently freed from prison after being wrongly convicted of the sexual assault of an 8-year-old boy will receive facial reconstructive surgery at no charge from a renowned Houston surgeon. Ricardo Rachell spent five years in prison and was freed Dec. More...
MONDAY 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 a group well known for losing and loving it. More...
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DEAR ABBY: My problem is unusual, but I'm hoping if you address it in your column it will help. I'm a married man, confident in who I am, who wears skirts for comfort. I feel skirts are more comfortable than pants, which I find tight, restrictive and uncomfortable. I wear skirts around the house, when I'm out running errands and when I attend church. More...
Imagine how good the Dallas Cowboys would be if they generated half as many headlines on the field as off. More...
Memorial services for Bland Dick "Dickie" Mallett, 66, of Kilgore, will be 2 p.m. Saturday, January 3, 2009, in the Chapel of Rader Funeral Home. Rev. George Spruell will officiate. Mr. Mallett died Friday, December 26, 2008, in Tyler. More...

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