De León, a Mexican merchant, soldier, and empresario, established the colony of 41 families in 1824 and ultimately supported Texas during the revolution. He named Victoria for a Mexican general ...

Texas, Florida and Louisiana have enacted laws ... his crusading zeal is unlikely to flag. Recently, when a Republican legislator led more than two dozen colleagues in a short-lived effort to ...

Texas is the USA’s second-largest state, with an area of 268,820 square miles (696,240 kilometres squared), making it larger ...

Louis Wigfall would represent Texas in the U.S. Senate, but his short fuse and alcoholism eventually wrecked his life and ...

Flags across the country will be lowered to half-staff until late January to honor former President Jimmy Carter, who died at ...

Flags across the country will be lowered to half-staff until late January to honor former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at the age of 100.

Shreveport is older than Caddo Parish, which was created on January 18, 1838. The very first sheriff of Caddo Parish was ...

Flags across Texas and the United States are to fly at half-staff until late January to honor former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at 100. This timeline will overlap with the Jan. 20 ...

SAN ANTONIO — Six Flags Fiesta Texas says that their steel inverted roller coaster Goliath is getting a "ride theme transformation," naming it Chupacabra. Few legends strike as much fear and ...