MONDAY TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) meets 5:30-6:30 p.m. Mondays at St. Luke's United Methodist Church. For more info call Linda Myhand at 903-834-6794 or Linda Brotherton at 903-736-8837. Come lose something you don't want to find! More...

Two weeks before the official kick-off of the 2009-10 United Fund drive, donors have already pledged almost $10,000. Carol Hinton, executive secretary of United Fund of Kilgore board of directors, said Monday that she has received payments and pledges totaling $9,876 — 16 percent of the UF's $60,000 goal for the coming year. More...

DEAR ABBY: I'm a 16- year-old male high school sophomore in what I think is a pretty common predicament. A lot of my friends have had sex, and some are having it pretty regularly. Abby, I've never even kissed a girl! How can I deflect attention from myself when my friends ask me how far I've gone? And what can I do to make sure I am not in this spot forever? More...

If the Kilgore High School football team isn't ready for the season to start, it certainly didn't appear that way Friday night in their only preseason scrimmage. Kilgore scored three touchdowns to Mount Pleasant's two in the timed half portion of the scrimmage, played here at R.E. St. John Stadium. More...

Funeral services for the Rev. Kent R. Jackson, 68, of Paducah, Ky. will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at Lone Oak First Baptist Church with burial following at Woodlawn Memorial Gardens. He died Tuesday, August 25, 2009 at his home. More...