The Homeland Security Department says more than 200,000 Salvadorans who have lived more than two decades in the United States ...

Why is Houston, Texas called the energy capital of the world? The oil industry started partly because of oil gushing at Spindletop in Beaumont 124 years ago.

In recent years university presidents have been facing growing political pressures, student and faculty pushback and an ...

The veteran orchestra manager, who abruptly resigned from his post as the New York Philharmonic leader last year, said he was ...

Colin Porter's 17 points helped Liberty defeat Sam Houston 76-68 on Thursday night. Porter had five assists and three steals for the Flames (14-2, 2-1 Conference USA). Taelon Peter shot 6 for 10 (1 ...

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

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

Texas president Jay Hartzell, one of the key figures in the Longhorns’ move to the Southeastern Conference, will be the ...

Texas formally became a state of the United States. Significantly, in anticipation of that grand event, John O’Sullivan, a ...

The aspiring lawyer was the first immigrant to ever win the Miss Texas title on her way to competing for the Miss America ...

Cavazos, the nation's first Hispanic four-star general, was honored for bravery during the Korean War. Texas' Fort Hood was ...