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Former U.S. first lady Laura Bush is going public about a car crash in Midland, Texas, that claimed the life of a high school friend when she was 17....

More than 20,000 people gathered at tailgate parties and other spots Sunday to watch fireworks go off one last time over Texas Stadium before a ton of dynamite lit up the Dallas Cowboys' longtime home and brought it to the ground....

A Republican congressman from Texas on Monday admitted he shouted “baby killer” from the House floor as Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak defended his change of position on health care legislation.

The 24th annual SXSW filled every available space in downtown Austin with musicians clamoring for attention.

A tour bus carrying at least 35 people rolled over Tuesday near Campbellton, Texas, killing two people and injuring more than a dozen, an official told CNN.

A judge in the Texas county that sends more inmates to death row than any other in the U.S. is facing a torrent of high-profile criticism after he declared the death penalty unconstitutional.

The family of a Dallas police officer who died in a crash two years ago while escorting then-presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton in a motorcade has sued her, the city of Dallas and the maker of the helmet he was wearing.

Two arrests have been made in a string of deliberately set church fires in east Texas, a fire official said Sunday.

Authorities are investigating a reported plane crash into a seven-story office building in north Austin.

A hospital spokeswoman said the former congressman from Texas, chronicled in the movie “Charlie Wilson's War,” died of cardiopulmonary arrest.