Santa Anna News

Staff reports Saturday, June 27, the Era Masonic Lodge installed its 113th slate of officers for the coming year.

At 83, Lavern Haynes Evans is still working at the Santa Anna National Bank, just as she has been for the past 55 years.

In some rural communities, a nurse practitioner is the only health care provider.

The events of April 21, 1836, when the Texas army defeated Santa Anna's troops at San Jacinto, captured the attention of all Texans for weeks afterward, and for a time the man historian Clarence Wharton called 'The Phantom Dr.

Publisher: Scarletta Press and Aliform Publishing, 300 pages, $14.95. Review: A sensitive, multifaceted view of historical events that led to Mexico ceding nearly half of its territory to the United States.

Samantha Daviss receiving Citizen of the Month award for her work with Corsicana Education Foundation.

The first 'glimpse' of Dr. Benjamin Harrison's presence in Brazoria County during the days of the Texas Revolution came in 'The Diary of William Fairfax Gray, from Virginia to Texas, 1835-1837.' Gray's diary stated that Harrison, who had been reported to have been massacred at Victoria, instead had been taken prisoner, then released and actually ...

I played hooky with a friend recently and headed north to Clarksville, near the Texas-Oklahoma border, hurtling down the asphalt in the chili-pepper red convertible Mini Cooper we co-own. The air was dry and cool, the sky blindingly blue, the road inviting.

Summer is the most popular time for family vacations because the weather is great and the kids are out of school.

By ELIZABETH ZAVALA FORT WORTH - Nancie Wingo is home in Fort Worth. But when you talk to her about her life in Beirut, her hazel-green eyes show she's homesick for the people she loved for 17 years as an English teacher at a Baptist school.A Baptist missionary so loyal to her adopted home, Wingo was featured in a 1984 issue of Life magazine, ...

Houston's army defeated Santa Anna, at San Jacinto in 1836, two distinct and incompatible visions have competed for the future of Texas.

Reporter-News photos by Thomas Metthe Santa Anna's Kendra Coleman, right, falls behind Meridian's Kimber Koonsman, center, and Knox City's Shelby Gutierrez during the Region II-A track meet Saturday at Abilene Chrisian University's Elmer Gray Stadium.

Fundraiser results: The "Fill the Boot" program held recently by Abilene and Dyess firefighters raised a total of $46,532.24, according to a news release.

Recent rashes of vandalism at schools across the Big Country are likely the handy work of juveniles, school officials said.

Notable books by Edwin 'Bud' Shrake He wrote plays, screenplays and at least one teleplay, but Bud Shrake will probably be best remembered for a golf book he almost didn't write.

To the "hero" in this Mexico City-set historical novel, "to flee or not to flee" is the question.

This year marks the 180th anniversary of the birth of one of Cinco de Mayo's most revered heroes-Texas-born General Ignacio Seguin Zaragoza, who led his Mexican army to defeat French forces sent by Napoleon III in the critical Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862.

Before I left England to join The First Lady in sometimes sunny southeast Texas, a colleague at The Daily Express, the British national newspaper I was working at in those days, gave me two pairs of cowboy boots.

IF ELIZABETH GARCIA IS HERE TO DO THE "RIGHT" THING NOT THE "LEGAL" THING....THEN SHE NEEDS TO BE ARRESTED.

In downtown San Antonio, Texas, there is a hallowed space where the blood of four gallant Scots warriors helped to form a benediction for the United States of America.