Lonestar News

The liquidators of IBRC are examining bids for the 1.8bn mortgage portfolio after final offers were received in advance of a deadline today.

Animal rights groups sued "The Great Bull Run" and the rodeo company that supplies it with bulls, claiming they stage dangerous, and illegal, events, in which "as many as three dozen panicked bulls ... stampede down a narrow track" behind hundreds of people, "many of whom have been drinking alcohol."

A stringent new law in the Lone Star State requires abortion doctors to have admitting privileges with a local hospital, a medically unnecessary requirement that's often impossible for doctors to comply with.

We fully understand the mandate to work with the board and management to enhance value for the benefit of all shareholders.

Texas is always synonymous with oil, but even by Lone Star State standards what's happening now is something truly special.

Circuit of the Americas and Bell Helmets have partnered to create a limited quantity of commemorative Texas-themed Star Carbon helmets.

Texas and Texas A&M are two of the best recruiting programs in college football.

Are you looking for work? Maybe it's time to head to the Lone Star state. Three of the top cities for job seekers are in Texas with Fort Worth earning the top spot, according to a new study by the finance social network WalletHub.

Despite large-scale efforts by leftist groups such as Enroll America to push Obamacare in the Lone Star State, new statistics confirm that uninsured Texans are not accepting health care mandates.

Next weekend, March 21 - 23, 2014, the Central Motorcycle Roadracing Association is back in action at Texas World Speedway in College Station, Texas.

Five U.S. private equity funds have expressed interest in the "bad bank" unit of Italy's Banco Popolare , according to sources, in a sign of growing appetite from foreign investors for real estate and distressed credit in the country.

This week in 1990, Jackson scored her sixth of 15 leaders on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.

Millions of college students across the country are gearing up for spring break.

Welcome to Austin! We're not going to follow up with any of that "please don't move here" nonsense because, frankly, we're glad you're here for SXSW.

Governor Rick Perry , now in charge of the Lone Star State, was quite the hit at the recent CPAC convention.

ENJOY Bates College - Schaeffer Theatre 3/6-3/10/2014 A contemporary Japanese play about Japan's Lost Generation.

Yellow roses are plentiful in Texas, but so are the hundreds of different species of flowers in the state's abundance of botanical gardens and arboretums.

MSNBC's Chuck Todd on Friday eagerly promoted "rising star" Joaquin Castro, a liberal Congressman from Texas.

Perhaps the governor had too much Red Bull. Whatever got Gov. Rick Perry fired up Friday at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference in Maryland, please give him some more.

Dante Chinni writes Politics Counts every Friday. Mr. Chinni is the director of the American Communities Project at American University , which examines different types of communities across the U.S. The Lone Star State is a Republican Party stronghold, and also is home to a growing number of Hispanics, who tend to vote Democratic, as 2012 showed .