Santa Anna News

In the fall of 1835, angered by the rebellion in the Texas colonies, the president of Mexico, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, organized an army of more than 5,000 soldiers and marched north.

In 1835, Texans tired of Mexican rule and revolted when Mexican dictator Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna began curbing provincial rights.

An elderly woman was killed while trying to cross a Northwest side road late Monday evening.

Sandwiched between two respected Texas historians on a hard church pew, the compact Englishman looks nervous, stroking his stubbled chin as he eyes 60 or so people crowded into the Buffalo Gap Chapel waiting for the sound of that voice they couldn't have escaped hearing over the last 40 years.

As Walter Lord noted in 1961 in 'A Time to Stand,' the epic of the Alamo caught America's imagination almost from the day the mission fortress fell.

Phil Collins, who collects artifacts from the Alamo, has written a book, ""The Alamo and Beyond, A Collector's Journey." It keeps me off the streets.

When the folks who control the College Football Hall of Fame picked the 2012 class and announced it to the world this past week, it was a big deal in Texas that four of those players to be inducted grew up in one city: San Antonio.

One of the foremost experts on the Battle of the Alamo has just released a book about his artifact collection, entitled "The Alamo and Beyond: A Collector's Journey." His name is Phil Collins.

"Shhh...be quite everyone. It's a hideout," said Leonard Orozco, guitarist and lead vocalist of local indie rockers Lazy Comet during a recent performance at one ofA San Antonio's newest downtownA additions to it's live music scene.

The British singer and drummer's fascination with the historic battle site has turned into a quest for its artifacts.

President James K. Polk issued a secret order on May 13, 1846 granting an infamous exile safe passage through U.S. lines.

Phil Collins will speak about his new book at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the Hall of State, Fair Park, 3939 Grand Ave., Dallas.

For the one-year anniversary that a drunken-driver took the life of their son, the Mantanona family is planning a 5K run/walk on Sunday at Redbud Park in Abilene to continue to "honor Jarrett." On May 13, 8-year-old Jarrett Paul Mantanona was killed in a vehicle accident police say was caused by James Morgan Gilger on CR 256, south of Santa Anna.

Mexicans are celebrating the sesquicentennial of the Cinco de Mayo 1862, when at the Battle of Puebla, their troops defeated a veteran French invasion force.