Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas, has become a staging ground for state forces, the epicenter of a standoff with the federal government and a stark symbol of dysfunction at the border. Former ...

EAGLE PASS, Tex. — A century and a half ago, Confederate Gen. Joseph Orville Shelby splashed into the wild waters of the Rio Grande off this border city and fled to Mexico, refusing to surrender ...

A Confederate flag flies with other flags that have flown over American soil at the Veterans Memorial Park in Wichita. (June 23, 2015) Mike Hutmacher The Wichita Eagle A national discussion ...

An article on the Confederate battle flag being among 13 flags at a pavilion at Wichita’s Veterans Memorial Park mentioned two opposing viewpoints (June 24 Eagle). One is that the flag ...