Kilgore News

According to an arrest report, they were arrested Friday in the 2801 block of Bill Owens Parkway and jailed on charges of possession of a chemical with intent to manufacture.

A Gregg County Grand jury indicted 15 people this week, including two men charged with murder.

Longview News-Journal business editor Mike Elswick, fickle fleeting fingers racing across his keyboard, updates East Texans on business and consumer issues affecting them and the region in his blog -- BizBuzz.

According to an arrest report, the store manager at the Walgreens on East Marshall Avenue said Spearman took several items and tried to leave without paying.

Several businesses in downtown Kilgore may get a face lift after the city's Main Street Design Committee divvied up funds for its Facade Improvement Grant program.

Winona residents go to polls again Tuesday to decide whether spirits can be sold inside the city limits.

Funeral services for Mattie Laura Medders, 95, of Kilgore, formerly of Mexia will be held on Monday, October 26, 2009, 11:00 am, at Northcrest Church of Christ in Mexia with Chris Vidacovich of Kilgore officiating.

The groundbreaking ceremony in Tyler for a $67 million academic center at the University of Texas Health Science Center is good news for the entire region.

A Huntsville man was held in the Gregg County Jail Wednesday after investigators found him with 161 pounds of marijuana, Kilgore police said through a news release.

Davis, an Army specialist during his July 2008 fight in Afghanistan, has risen to the rank of sergeant while recuperating from his wounds.

By KENNETH DEAN Staff Writer KILGORE - Police continue their investigation into a Friday accident that killed a Kilgore man and injured a family from Winona.

Northeastern A and M suffered its third straight loss, falling to Kilgore College 68-36 Saturday in Kilgore, Texas.

The Kilgore College Radiologic Technology Club is planning 5K and 10K fun runs to help with expenses for an upcoming trip.

Sitting in the Rusk County Courthouse, a three-judge panel from the Sixth Court of Appeals in Texarkana heard arguments Wednesday in Darnell Hartsfield's appeal of his capital murder conviction in the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant killings.

Testimony continued Wednesday in the capital murder trial of a 22-year-old Tyler man accused of killing the 2-year-old son of his girlfriend while the child's mother was at work.

A Kilgore police officer who was struck while directing traffic is recovering and the man who hit him faces felony intoxication charges.

With the traditional Latin music, girls dancing in tricolored costumes and generations-old enchilada dishes up for judging, passers by could have mistaken Kilgore City Park on Monday for a Cinco de Mayo festival.

Kilgore police officer Mitch Autrey was struck by a vehicle Saturday night while making a traffic stop at the intersection of Stone Street and Campbell Road.

The Pine Tree Education Foundation is offering a way to honor a student's graduation year by purchasing an engraved brick to be placed in Pirate Plaza on the high school campus.

By Dec. 31, Kilgore College expects to restore emergency radio communication between its Longview campus and local police.