University boards appointed by the Texas governor soon could have new powers to control the curriculum required of students and eliminate degree programs.

Mecklenburg, North Carolina, is celebrating its own Declaration of Independence claiming it was signed a year before all the American colonies split from British rule. Here's a controversy that ...

DE LA CANAL: As the story goes, the men, in their fury, signed a local declaration of independence for Mecklenburg County. SYFERT: And they say, we are the first people. We are leaving the British ...

DE LA CANAL: As the story goes, the men, in their fury, signed a local declaration of independence for Mecklenburg County. SYFERT: And they say, we are the first people. We are leaving the British ...