Washington-on-the Brazos had the opportunity to showcase its Barrington Plantation on Saturday as the state of Texas ...

SAN ANGELO, Texas (Concho Valley Homepage) — More than 2,000 people walked through the doors of the San Angelo Coliseum from Feb. 21 to Feb. 23 for the 16th annual West Texas Tattoo Convention.

Over the past five years, 33 counties in Illinois have voted to secede from the state ... They could end up being five states even or (let) Texas split up.” The proper question for Meier here is, “so ...

Secession has a long, contentious history in the United States. Particularly in states with a strong basis for independence, like Texas and California, the idea of functioning as self-sufficient ...

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The Indiana House gave a stamp of approval to Republican House Speaker Todd Huston’s bill that creates a commission to discuss how Illinois counties could secede from their state and join Indiana.

The South Carolina Secession Convention, forced from Columbia by ... Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed suit, and by February 1861, the Confederate States ...

When that state’s secession convention was called in 1861, it didn’t sit well with Winston County folks. So, they held their own convention on July 4, 1861, at Looney’s Tavern (I’m not ...

An Indiana House committee nearly unanimously approved House Speaker Todd Huston's only bill this session, starting a conversation about annexing some Illinois counties should they secede from ...

Tina Kotek did not respond to requests for comment. So far, only a few such movements regarding either secession or redrawing of state lines have been successful. The now-55 counties of West ...

But similar attempts at secession have produced mixed results in U.S. history. Earlier this month, state Rep. Mark Owens, R-Malheur, put forward HB 3844, the measure that creates and directs a ...

Following the federal government's potential overhaul of the U.S. Department of Education, a Texas lawmaker is seeking to eliminate the Texas Education Agency, responsible for overseeing public ...