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Ortiz says money coming from the National Endowment For the Humanities U.S. Rep. Solomon Ortiz (D-Corpus Christi) has announced that the National Endowment For the Humanities has awarded a $24,964 grant to Texas A&M University at Kingsville to support Hispanic studies in South Texas. The title of the project is Hispanic Studies in South Texas. Ortiz said the funding will support a yearlong series of workshops in Hispanic Studies for faculty from four Texas A&M campuses with the aim of developing a cooperative doctoral program in Hispanic Studies. "The Hispanic population in the United States is exploding. It is long...

Ricardo Sanchez rose from poverty in Starr County to become an Army general RIO GRANDE CITY - When Ricardo Sanchez was 13, he and an older brother told his mother they didn't want to go to school anymore. OK, she said. They could pick cotton instead. "I woke them up at 5 in the morning and sent them off in one of the trucks," said Maria Sanchez, the 77-year-old mother of the highest-ranking military official in Iraq. "They came home and they were very tired, but I just gave them some dinner and told them, 'Go to bed because tomorrow...