Santa Anna News

Ronald W. Erdrich/Reporter-News John Morris, a former Santa Anna City Council member, addresses the council Monday evening about lease land at Lake Sealy.

Good morning, it's Tuesday, May 14, the 134th day of 2013. There are 231 days left in the year.

The Sam Houston Statue in Huntsville looms large over Interstate 45 in Walker County and is approaching its one millionth visitor.

The hero of Mexico's symbolic 1862 Battle of Puebla was a third-generation Texan from a family that was already in San Antonio during the American Revolution.

An obscure occasion has passed into history once again. Most Americans remember the Alamo especially if they are old enough to remember Fess Parker clubbing the soldiers of Santa Anna in the old Walt Disney portrait of Davy Crockett.

Well! It's been a while, and I've got loads of new books lining the shelves of my dear Kindle.

For over 3 years InParisTexas.com has given you coverage and content from everything happening in our city.

But this weekend, former Gov. Mark Sanford referenced the epic battle in a full-page newspaper advertisement in the Sunday edition of Charleston's The Post and Courier.

Thousands rush to claim land in Oklahoma, the first nationwide Earth Day takes place, Richard Nixon dies, federal agents seize EliA n GonzA lez, and the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig sinks while spewing oil, all on this day.