ROTARY CLUB STUDENT OF THE MONTH
     Pictured at Wednesday's Rotary Club are Shelia Kelly, Ashia Kelly, Rotary's student of the month and daughter of Shelia, Pam DeCeault and club president David Castles. Ashia is a student at Kilgore High School. DeCeault presented a program about Hettie Green, "the Witch of Wall Street."
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New monuments at Normandy, Cantigny shaped by American
By GARRY MITCHELL Associated Press Writer
      FAIRHOPE, Alabama (AP) - Sculptor Stephen Spears is turning history into bronze with the first monument to the U.S. Navy's D-Day heroes at Normandy and a statue of a World War I doughboy at the site of a landmark American victory in Cantigny, France.
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Fort Worth Stock Show
     Paige Weiss took third place overall with this heifer at the recent Fort Worth Stock Show. Other Kilgore 4-H members who won at the show included Landon McElyea, who took second place with his Shorthorn heifer, and Dustin Craine, who won a $500 certificate in the calf scramble.
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Judge says negotiate before border seizure
      BROWNSVILLE (AP) - A federal judge has ruled that the government must first try to negotiate a price with a South Texas landowner before seizing her property for the border fence. The ruling by U.S.
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Students of the Month
     Students of the Month in Pre-K at Kilgore Heights Elementary School for February are Jessica San Juan, Keyara McKee, Juan Luna, Arturo Jimenez, Grant Brown Abel Mason, Keyara McKee and Ezekiel Boone-Walker.
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Bush: bill banning CIA waterboarding would weaken war on terror
By JENNIFER LOVEN Associated Press Writer
      WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush said Saturday he vetoed legislation that would ban the CIA from using harsh interrogation methods such as waterboarding to break suspected terrorists because it would end practices that have prevented attacks.
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Thousands protest poor security in southern Iraqi city of Basra
By BUSHRA JUHI Associated Press Writer
      BAGHDAD (AP) _ Thousands of people took to the streets Saturday in Basra, protesting deteriorating security in the southern city where Iraqi forces assumed responsibility for safety last December.
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