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The 20 states choosing not to expand their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act are forgoing billions of dollars in federal funds.

A parole officer learns her son has gone missing under shady circumstances, so she drafts an ex-con who was once her closest friend so close, folks said the two could "go for sisters" to help her hunt the underworld for him.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry may not be running for president yet, but he's sure doing a good impression of it.

In rapidly growing Texas, which is home to one in 11 children in the United States, child poverty has continued to increase despite an improving economy, according to a report released Tuesday.

The Obama administration "has taken lying to a new level," according to Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn.

Joe Glackin's book A Lone Star Weeps: An Inspector Gloria Mystery is a thriller set in Liberia and centres around Gloria Sirleaf, a detective inspector trying to establish herself as a young woman leading one of the country's renewal efforts following the end of a brutal civil war.

Cannon has a tremendous skill set, as he is a perfect fit for Baylor's spread offense.

Syndicated television series, "Bronco Roads," was recently honored with the 2013 Lone Star EmmyA Award in the Magazine Program Series category at the 11th Annual Lone Star Emmy Awards , which took place in San Antonio, TX.

Editor's note: This editorial, written by Rob Rivers, was published in the Watauga Democrat on Nov. 28, 1963, following the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination of John F. Kennedy.

On this 50th anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination, 8News is looking back at America's 35th president and why he's so revered today.

We've got all the details you need you need to cast your free vote - but hurry because voting ends at 9pm tonight It's Jukebox Week on the talent show and that means one thing - the song choices for the final five are in your hands.

Few tragedies loom as large in the American psyche as the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, who was gunned down in Dallas a half-century ago.

Tragedy stalked nakedly in Texas yesterday when an assassin's bullet took the life of President Kennedy as he pressed his previously triumphant speaking tour in the Lone Star State.

The silver pompadoured, baritone beltin', Lone Star beer drinkin', honky-tonk hellraiser Dale Watson finally gets his own Austin City Limits taping on Monday.

Hidden cameras expose problems in pet stores and flea markets, while shelters have hundreds of available puppies Dogs in the sweltering Texas heat in open-air flea markets, employees refusing to tell consumers information on the source of the dogs, and unhealthy and underage puppies pouring in from out-of-state puppy mills and brokers were among ... (more)

Suite 850 of the Texas Hotel in Fort Worth. It is the morning of November 22 1963 and John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, is preparing for his short flight to Dallas.

After Lou Reed 's death, the number of people sharing stories of his friendship or recalling a random meeting with him was astounding.

At the beginning of this month, when Texas' new omnibus anti-abortion law officially took effect, clinics across the state were forced to immediately halt their services .

The entire country of Spain is only about two-thirds the size of the State of Texas, but whereas the Lone Star State is home to eight distinct wine regions, Spain boasts about 80 -- it's the third largest wine producing country in the world! So when this columnist and her companion, the wine columnist from The Advice Sisters Beauty, Fasion and ... (more)

MUSIC : Joe Ely @ The Hangar , Troy. One of the finest Lone Star singer-songwriters to ever strum a guitar rambles into the Collar City for a long-overdue headline concert.