Texas student Brenda Brinsdon, daughter of a Mexican mother and an American father, refused to recite the Mexican pledge as required by her teacher. For this she was disciplined. Her family is now suing the school

Police reacted in force as thousands descended on the luxury Galleria Mall to see NBA players and celebrities. The Galleria Mall and Adidas had promoted the event on Twitter.

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On a return voyage to Galveston TX, a Carnival Cruise line is now drifting near Mexico. Passengers have no power, A/C, hot food, or toilet facilities. Passengers are desperate.

A study of more than 1,500 years of tree-ring data and hundreds of years of fire-scar records were gathered from Ponderosa pine forests in a study.

Producers of 'Corpus Christi: Playing with Redemption' expect protesters at the screening of the movie in San Francisco homosexual-dominated Castro district.

El Paso, Texas, will have vigils this week to recall more than 10,000 victims of drug-related violence in Juarez - which lies just across the international border - and the rest of Mexico.

The famed Mexican-American labor organizer was "the last Catholic in America" to achieve "cultural/political synthesis" and bring Catholic social teachings into the public square.

Daniel Salinas, mayor pro-tem of Sunland Park, New Mexico, can't take offices because of criminal charges he is facing in a local court. State takeover of the town is imminent. The scandal has fingers in Texas, and into Old Mexico.

A basketball team from a Jewish high school in Texas faced the probability of being denied a change to compete with Christian and Catholic schools until a great defender came into the picture.

'Willie' apparently had adequate health insurance, but a Houston hospital removed hydration and nutrition.

Randy Travis, country crooner, sought solace at a local church following a fight with his girlfriend.

The Susan G Komen for the Cure Foundation had funded Planned Parenthood, ostensibly for breast health initiatives. Due to an ongoing investigation of the abortion provider, Komen has now cut its funding.

Born in Iran, Gelareh Bagherzadeh was studying at Texas Medical Center in Houston. She was shot dead, and her purse untouched.

Catholic priests constitute the most persecuted class of individuals in the U.S., and are often poorly treated by their superiors.