On July 25, 1853, a group of California Rangers met a band of armed Mexicans near Coalinga, in central-California gold-mining country. In the ensuing skirmish, three Mexicans died. One corpse in ...

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“We do one book after state testing, and we did ‘The Great Gatsby.’ … A lot of kids had not read a novel in class before.” — Laura Henry, 10th-grade English teacher near Houston “My son in 9th grade ...

Kansas State hired Collin Klein as its new head football coach Thursday night. He landed his first recruit Friday morning. Klein worked fast as he convinced Josiah Vilmael, a three-star defensive back ...