Raymond Caldwell brings the Texas Shakespeare Festival to Rotarians
By GREG COLLINS Publicity Chairman
      Raymond Caldwell, artistic director of the Texas Shakespeare Festival since its beginning, was the guest speaker at the Kilgore Rotary Club on Wednesday. Caldwell talked about the upcoming festival, which begins July 3 and runs through August 3. This is a bit late on the starting point, but Caldw...
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Lions encouraged to mentor young men
By JIM EPPERSON News Herald staff
      Eugene Davis, executive director of the Kilgore Community Crisis Center, encouraged the Lion's Club last week to do their part in the community to help curb family violence. Davis said last year there were 67 cases of family violence in the Kilgore area alone. But the statistics are skewed becaus...
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Hotels seek workers on eve of summer travel season
By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press Writer
      CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - The shortage of workers at Ted Blair's three hotels near Yellowstone National Park is so severe that Blair himself might soon be busing tables and stripping beds.
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Clinton regrets RFK assassination remark
By DEVLIN BARRETT Associated Press Writer
      SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) _ Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton quickly apologized Friday after citing the June 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in defending her decision to keep running for the Democratic presidential nomination despite increasingly long odds.
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More tornadoes strike Kansas and Oklahoma
By DAVID TWIDDY Associated Press Writer
      KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) _ Emergency workers were picking through debris after tornadoes rampaged in western and central Kansas and northern Oklahoma for a second night in a row. The city of Protection in Commanche County took a direct hit from a tornado Friday, although the damage seemed mostly lim...
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