Lonestar News

Music legends especially so. Fail to tune into the character, the voice, the instrument skills and your career could be yesterday's grits.

Jackson Hole, Wyoming - Despite the Braun brothers being born in Idaho and having founded the band Reckless Kelly in Bend, Oregon, before moving to Austin in 1997, they more or less define the "Texas country" tag.

Gosh, the 2016 primaries are a long way off, but look out: Here comes Texas Governor Rick Perry -- riding his state's taxpayer dollars into another GOP presidential bid.

5 - Missouri has the famous Kansas City barbecue. But the state also has the highest number of charcoal producers in the country, and some believe they consume more barbecue sauce.

Organic food sales keep growing, but Texas is not reaping the benefits that might be expected from the country's second-largest agriculture producer.

Richie McDonald has made some tough decisions when it comes to his music career but rejoining Lonestar wasn't one of them.In 2007 McDonald chose to walk away from Lonestar, at the time one of the top groups in country music, to spend more time with his young family.

For those of you who don't know me, my name is Major Killing. And, killing is my business.

As some of you may be aware, I recently joined the well-respected US based No Fluff Just Stuff Tour.

Ask photographer Neil Johnson about Shreveport's identity as a city and he says: "Shreveport is where the South meets the West."

The Midwestern State cross country squad is picked to finish as runner-up in the race for the 2014 Lone Star Conference Championship according to league coaches, sports information directors and selected media members as released Thursday afternoon.

Texas has had more new home sales over the past year than any other state in the country, according to housing data and consulting firm Metrostudy.

Smith took the lead on sending a letter to Obama on the border crisis The House and Senate Republicans of the Texas congressional delegation are the contingent to stake out a position on the border crisis as time left to act on the issue before the August recess recedes.

The lads will be busy on July 26, as they perform at 2 p.m. at Redwood City's PAL Blues, Arts & BBQ Festival then at 8 p.m. at Antioch's El Campanil Theatre.

Texas Governor Rick Perry is publicly welcoming the Texas International Firearms Festival to Austin, Texas, on Nov. 8-9, 2014.

They're back! The popular country group Lonestar will headline this year's 36th Annual Deerfield Township Harvest Festival set for Oct. 10-12 on the grounds of Frank LoBiondo, Sr. Park on Morton Avenue, next to the Rosenhayn Fire Hall.

Responsibility for national border security legally - and logically - belongs to the national government.

The stories tell us, and historians apparently agree, that Texans have a history of extraordinary bravery.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry is sending up to 1,000 National Guard troops to the Lone Star State's border with Mexico in an attempt to contain the flood of illegal immigrants entering the U.S. Perry can do this because under the Constitution , state governors are the commanders in chief of the guard, which is the modern equivalent of colonel militias.

Bluestone Energy Services LLC plans to gain traction in the Lone Star state with its new office in Forth Worth, Texas.

A weaker iron ore price has weighed on mining stocks but some strength among the banks has helped shares move higher.