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Sgt. Kenneth May comes home

Hundreds of Kilgore-area residents lined the streets of Kilgore this afternoon to welcome Marine Sgt. Kenneth May home. Sgt. May was killed in Afghanistan last week and will be laid to rest here Friday afternoon. More...

Agency helps foster ‘kids’ transition to adulthood

By J. LOUISE LARSON news1@kilgorenewsherald.com

When a child is removed from his home and placed in a foster home, a larger problem looms in the distance in East Texas and around the country. More...

Martin’s achievements cited by UT business school

By J. LOUISE LARSON news1@kilgorenewsherald.com

Decades of work came into the spotlight when Kilgore businessman Reuben S. Martin was recognized recently by UT Tyler’s Beta Gamma Sigma. More...

Daily Digest

DAILY DIGEST

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. TOPS people just love to lose. TUESDAY More...

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Advice & Entertainment

Readers provide remedies for night-time leg cramps

YOUR HEALTH DR. DONOHUE

To Readers: A recent discussion of nighttime leg cramps brought an avalanche of readers' remedies, as it always does. I can't submit all for publication, but I'll try to include more throughout the year in future columns. More...

HOROSCOPE

FORECAST FOR THURSDAY, MAY 20, 2010
JACQUELINE BIGAR

ARIES (March 21-April 19)  Your strong sense of direction drives you through your day. You will have to plow through a cloud of confusion. Others need your insightful questions to help clear their mind as well. Opt not to work late. More...

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Obituaries

MARINE SGT. KENNETH B. MAY, JR.

Funeral services for Sgt Kenneth B. May, Jr. 26, of Kilgore, will be 2PM, Friday, May 21, 2010 at the First Baptist Church of Kilgore with Reverends John Gradberg, and Mike Brook officiating. Interment will follow at Danville Cemetery. More...

MONETTA DRAEMER NOBLE

Services for Monetta Draemer Noble, 100, of Kilgore will be Ten O’- Clock in the Morning Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at the Rader Funeral Home Chapel with the Reverend Dudley J. Plaisance, Jr. More...

HOWARD B. DORRIS

Services for Howard B. Dorris, 89, Kilgore, were Tuesday, May 18 at the Cottle-Pearson Funeral Home Chapel, Overton with the Reverends Atwell Hankins and Charles Scarborough officiating. Entombment followed in Rusk County Memorial Gardens. More...

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Public invited to pay tribute to Sgt. Kenneth May

Patriot Guard invites community to line procession route

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City honors fallen hometown hero

By J. LOUISE LARSON News1@kilgorenewsherald.com

Hometown tributes are planned as the body of Sgt. Kenneth May Jr. is brought home to Kilgore on Wednesday. More...

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Students, above, scurry to find their place in line in advance of last Friday’s graduation ceremony at Kilgore College. More...

KILGOROUND

BILL WOODALL

THE FINE FOLKS at 4 Star Cinema are donating a vintage movie projector to Kilgore Historical Preservation Foundation. AND they’re having it shipped from California. More...

News

Arrests made in Gregg County cases

Since May 17, three suspects in separate Gregg County Sheriff’s Office investigations have been arrested. Suspects in these cases remained in the Gregg County Jail on Thursday. More...

Massive drug-trafficking enterprise busted in East Texas

Of 44 in custody, several from Kilgore, Overton, Longview

TYLER -- U.S. Attorney John M. More...

Rusk County honors fallen peace officers

By AARON MAY news2@kilgorenewsherald.com

Officers from more than six law enforcement agencies attended the sixth annual Law Enforcement Day memorial service at the Rusk County Courthouse Friday morning. More...

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Sports

Gadson wins; Morgan third

Venegas, Pauley, Waggoner and Dean compete at state as well
By MITCH LUCAS sports@kilgorenewsherald.com

Many high schools in the Kilgore News Herald’s coverage area were represented at the 2010 University Interscholastic League’s State Track and Field Championships in Austin last weekend, and while only one of those area athletes brought h More...

Overton advances, will face CRHS next

HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL / CLASS 1A PLAYOFFS
By MITCH LUCAS sports@kilgorenewsherald.com

Their fans expected them to do well, and they’re living up to expectations. It’s on to round three for the Overton High School baseball team. More...

LOCAL SPORTS IN BRIEF

BENEFIT Benefit for McNaughton family Saturday There will be a benefit for the family of the late Jae Michael “Jae Jae” McNaughton this Saturday, May 22 at Sittin Bull Saloon from noon until 2 a.m. More...

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School news

Gill tops TCU’s MBA/accounting class

Madison Gill graduated May 8 with a masters degree in accounting from the M.J. Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University. More...

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