[2] In 2018, Bluebonnet Publishing sold the newspaper to M. Roberts Media,[3][4] as part of a strategic move to enhance local news coverage and facilitate a transition into a digitally integrated noting the newspaper's "historic roots stretching back to the early days of the East Texas oil boom," highlighting its longstanding role and its important history.

[6] In the Kilgore News Herald from February 6, 1934, there are two intriguing stories about Bonnie and Clyde.

One details how former Police Chief Bob Goss of Kilgore,[7] and a man named Will Fritz once arrested Clyde Barrow.

Former News Herald reporter Bob Cone describes Clyde Barrow as an "elusive, event phantom-like desperado."

When asked if he thought Barrow would confront officers with his guns, Goss replied without hesitation, {{cquote|"Yes.