Lonestar News

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.

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

Well, to be precise, Mexican Gen. Antonio Lpez de Santa Anna's leg. A group of Illinois soldiers stole it fair and square - back in 1845.

But thanks to soaring productivity and clusters of high-tech companies, the state remains the country's biggest manufacturing powerhouse, with the value added by its industries growing at twice the national rate.

Hailing from the Lone Star state, Sarah Jaffe bears a voice caked with a moody intensity that evokes dusky desert skies in the manner only an acoustic singer/songwriter can.

A bipartisan duo of lawmakers from the Lone Star State have joined forces to present a Texas-style solution to the nation's border crisis.

Wells Fargo Amphitheater, Misericordia University . $20 lawn ; $35 amphitheater seating.

As we try to grasp the enormity of the crisis involving at least 57,000 unaccompanied minors from Central America who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border looking for safe haven, Americans should stop casting blame and be realistic.

Summer is in full swing, which means uncommitted recruits will see their recruitment only heat up even more.

In Texas and across the country, the rate of teenage births has declined significantly since its peak in 1991.

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From the looks of things on social media, folks in the Lone Star State can't quite figure out exactly what they should be stuffing their faces with.

Workers on a drilling rig in South Texas' Eagle Ford Shale formation. Oil and gas extraction activity has pushed Texas' manufacturing job growth up 2.5 percent from a year ago.

The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit news outlet launched in 2009, now boasts the largest statehouse bureau in the Lone Star State at 15 full-time staffers.