MONDAY LIVE RECORDED, IRIS BLUE TESTIMONY with Q&A Forum, 6:30 p.m. Aug. 3 at First Baptist Church of Danville. A light evening meal will be provided. Ms. Blue will use some of the excerpts from this live recorded session in her book, due out in October. Please RSVP to Teresa at 903- 926-5562. More...

Kilgore Rotarian Dr. Charles Whiteside gave highlights of his recent trip to the organization's international convention during the club's meeting on Wednesday. Whiteside attended the Rotary International Convention in Birmingham, England, and said the experience at his eighth Rotary International Convention was good and he really enjoyed himself. More...

DEVELOPMENTAL Panola County The Carthage (Pettit, Lower) Field will see the Sharp, Belle Well No.1 drilled by Texas American Resources Co. This well will be drilled 2.5 miles north from Beckville in the Hamilton, W Survey, A-272 with a depth of 6,800-feet. More...

Tires and old sofas appear to have found a communal burying ground on Swanson Street in North Kilgore. Hundred of old tires and a dozen or so old sofas, plus mattresses, televions, carpet scraps and more wind up on the barely-maintaained street that more-or-less connects Hwy. 135 with Fritz Swanson Road. the street, just north of the Tierra del Sol subdivision and behind the new emergency services bisects property owned by out of town families. Much of the land is owned by Alexander Conor, William Cobb and Joy Martin-Abst of California. Another tract is onwed by the Eddie Robinson family, of DeSoto, Texas. More...

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: My 15-year-old son returned from three weeks at a basketball camp with a sore leg. He says they told him it was shin splints and that all that was needed is rest. I would like to hear from a more official source about shin splints. What are they, and how are they treated? -- R.W. More...

As the final week of the Texas Collegiate League baseball season begins, the East Texas Pump Jacks are coming home, hoping for a great week going into the league's playoffs. More...

Funeral services for Mrs. Mona Lisa McMicheal Ervin will be held Wed. August 5, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. at the Red Oak Baptist Church under the direction of Stanmore Funeral Home, Longview, Texas. More...