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April 16th, 2008
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Karp Festival 16 years strong
Kilgore College held the 16th Annual Karp Festival on Saturday at the Anne Dean Turk Fine Arts Center. Sandra Siler, KC piano instructor wanted to honor her teacher/mentor while at Southern Methodist University, Dr. David Karp, by establishing a piano festival in his honor. More...
Talk continues on downtown design

Main Street has been a subject discussed in many forums since the program was re-introduced nearly a year and a half ago. This week the Main Street Design Committee plowed through another list of discussion items and further refined the to-do section of the plan. More...

Oil hits new record as investors flee the falling dollar

Oil prices surged to record highs Wednesday as the weakening U.S. dollar drove up investments into commodities. Light, sweet crude for May delivery rose as high as $114.53 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange before retreating to $114.46 by midday in Europe, up 67 ce... More...

Obama says Clinton criticism not racial, it's just politics

WASHINGTON, Pa. (AP) - Democratic Sen. Barack Obama on Tuesday dismissed a voter's suggestion that when Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton called him elitist it "bordered on uppity." "It's politics," the presidential candidate told a town-hall meeting on veterans affairs. "This is what we do political... More...

GAME, SET AND ADVANCE

The Kilgore High School tennis team will be sending five players to regionals this year. In girls singles it will be Haley Smith. In the doubles division Kilgore will be represented by Callie Cunyus and Trevor Compton in mixed doubles and in boys doubles it will be Josh Bailey and Jody Madding. Regi... More...

KILGOROUND

"Oh, yes," she laughed. "I have lived in the same house and slept in the same bed for 57 years. Not many people are able to say the same thing. We started building the house in April and it not until August when James completed his coaching school did we get to move into it," said Yvonne Kennedy... More...

 News
•Kentucky latest state to prohibit alcohol vaporizers
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - The state that claims to produce the world's best bourbon has banned at least one way to consume it: vaporized for easy inhalation. Gov. Steve Beshear signed a bill on Tuesday prohibiting the sale, purchase or use of alcohol vaporizers, which are devices that resemble asthm... More...
•Trooper wins discrimination lawsuit against Texas DPS
•Bush revises strategy on greenhouse gases
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 Advice & Entertainment
•DEAR ABBY
DEAR ABBY: For most of my life, I have parted my hair on the right. I am now being told that men should part their hair on the left. Is there a correct side for men? HARRY W., MORRO BAY, CALIF. DEAR HARRY: I relayed your question to my hair design consultant, Bob Cox. More...
•YOUR HEALTH
•HOROSCOPE
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 Sports
•Sharpe homers, strikes out 11 as KHS wins
The cool zone has turned into a hot zone. The Kilgore High School Bulldogs baseball team lost two in a row to Whitehouse and Nacogdoches the first week of April. Those losses seemed to have galvanized the team somewhat, awakening them to the point that they've won two straight at a very good time... More...
•PT outlasts scrappy Lady 'Dogs
•Rangers' skid now at five
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 Obituaries
•ASHLEY RENE' ALLISON
Ashley Rene' Allison, 25, passed away April 12, 2008 in Carrollton. She was born on August 03, 1982 in Lafayette, LA., to Roger and Robin Allison. She was the accounts payable manager and inventory control specialist for Exterran Compression. More...
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