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Check out our pics above of some of the best country songs by Texas country artists about the Lone Star State Real estate blog Estately set out to find which state in the union was most conducive to life inside a theoretical country song.

"Well, it seems that I've been here before/ So if this means that there is more bring it on."

Texas gets only a little vino love on a new list of the country's 101 best wineries.

A Maryland Democrat said her advice to President Obama would be that he should visit the Texas border Wednesday during his visit to the Lone Star State to get a first-hand look at the response to the children from Central American countries that are trying to cross into the country illegally.

The mass sell-off of loans books by Irish lenders could be used by a US private equity house to create the kernel of a third banking force, according to one of the country's leading corporate finance executives.

For the second year in a row, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and his Lone Star State corporate raiders are headed to Chicago this afternoon, and Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn and his boys already are shooting back.

The proof is in Whiskey Cake, 1845 Northwest Expressway, which arrived in Oklahoma City from Plano, Texas, from the Fork It Over restaurant group.

Shortly after getting into bed, she began getting a stomach ache, headache, chills and rash.

A recent tick survey out of Gaithersburg, Maryland, reveals a type of tick not common to the area inhabits a Montgomery County park and that there are numbers of tick varieties infected with pathogens capable of making people sick.

Charmaine Carbs thought that she would be the only senior at her high school to walk across the stage pregnant at graduation.

Too little rain and too much heat equals drought. Right now the United States Drought Monitor shows that 99% of Texas is under drought conditions.

The Kimbell Art Museum and Blue Bell Ice Cream present "Ice Cream Sunday" on Sunday, July 20, from noon to 3:00 p.m., in the Piano Pavilion, to celebrate National Ice Cream Day.

Forget politics - the issue that really divides the country is barbecue. In states like Texas and North Carolina, the residents can't even agree on which style should reign supreme.

After Slacker and Dazed and Confused but before Bernie , Before Midnight and the soon-to-be-released Boyhood , Richard Linklater made a charming little movie called The Newton Boys .

Nearly every city in America will roll out the red-white-and-blue carpet this weekend, but a recent survey reveals Texas towns are patriotic year-round.

The San Jacinto Monument Cam will join other prestigious U.S. landmarks documented by EarthCam including the Statue of Liberty, Niagara Falls, Dealey Plaza, Washington Monument, Time Square and Mount Rushmore.

Though Kentucky and Tennessee have long been considered the whiskey and bourbon capitols of the country, Texas is increasingly making a name for itself as a whiskey producer.

On tonight's episode of " Man Fire Food ," Roger Mooking , chef, musician and lover of all things smoky and delicious, went to the Lone Star State to get some tastes of the "Global Flavors of Texas ."

Golden State-Lone Star Blues Revue featuring Mark Hummel, Little Charlie Baty & Anson Funderburgh is a cross country meeting of the minds between California and Texas musicians.

When it comes to the oil and gas drilling boom in the country, Texas is king. Actually, make that crown a global one: over a quarter of all the active drilling rigs in the world are right here in the Lone Star State.