For the first time after more than a century, officials and residents of this central Pangasinan town celebrated Nov. 11 as "Battle of San Jacinto Memorial Day." In a commemorative program held on ...

History aficionados will be intrigued by the San Jacinto Battleground. The State Historic Site is where an important, if not the most important, battle for Texas' independence took place in 1836.

Just a few years after Texas won its independence from Mexico at the Battle of San Jacinto in April 1836, a young doctor from ...

Having heard of Santa Anna's defeat at the Battle of San Jacinto, he returned to Texas without any promises in hand in June of 1836. Generous Soul Offering himself to the Texas Republic as its ...

Riverside County Fire Department firefighters were battling a 250-acre brush fire in San Jacinto Sunday. The fire was reported around 2:20 p.m. Sunday near the intersection of Soboba and Gilman ...

John Wayne was under incredible pressure directing, producing and starring in The Alamo, a film released 64 years ago this week, which Duke partly financed out of his own pocket, and had to deal with ...

Texas in the early 19th century wasn’t exactly a place for a retired general of Napoleon’s stature. It was a land of chaos ...

Dallas Historical Society plans to use some of the $7 million donation — its largest single gift ever — to put new exhibits ...

San Jacinto brush fire burns 650 acres as evacuation warning issued Evacuation warnings were issued as a hillside brush fire grew to at least 650 acres near San Jacinto on Sunday. Video shows man ...

the Battle of San Jacinto, and Texas’ independence from Mexico. Houston’s sizeable Latino community was not exactly pleased. Luck took the backlash seriously from the outset, recalls Chris ...

Steve Fryer’s analysis and predictions for some of the top games this week in the CIF Southern Section football playoffs.