On Dec. 31, 1945, West University Place’s City Council passed a series of ordinances attempting to annex Bellaire, Southside ...

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The 45th was the only "green" division in the invasion with no combat experience. Its 180th Infantry Regiment struggled badly ...

Key hires and grants have the West Texas Water Research Center at Sul Ross State University ready to take the plunge into delivering solutions to West Texas’ most pressing water issues. “We’re making ...

PECOS — For Joe Keese, nothing had been out of the ordinary about that Wednesday last December. A teacher from the nearby elementary school had stopped by the Chamber of Commerce to pick up some ...

Written by Marty Robbins, “El Paso” was first released on his Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs album in September 1959.

Hundreds of Allied prisoners of war were held in Japanese camps in Nagasaki when the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb 80 years ago ...

On Jan. 3, 2026, President Trump authorized an attack on Venezuela that resulted in the capture of President Nicolás Maduro ...

Fort Gates, a key 1849 U.S. Army outpost in Texas, illustrates the complexities of frontier defense and settlement ...

I meet Bob Dylan down an alleyway in Fargo. He looks at me, his back to the wall, brow furrowed. A cigarette hangs between his fingers and a newspaper is folded beneath his arm. I stop and stare back.

PECOS, Texas — One person is dead and four people are injured after a train derailed and hit the Chamber of Commerce building in Pecos, according to Pecos City Manager Charles Lino during a press ...

Palestinians who have worked the ‘breadbasket’ area for generations face being replaced by Israeli settlers The death knell for the Palestinian village of Atouf, on the western slopes of the Jordan ...