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Former President George W. Bush, who has turned up in a handful of out-of-the-way places since leaving office, was set to spend part of Independence Day speaking at a remodeled rodeo arena in northwestern Oklahoma.

Two cast members of the TV show "Dallas" say they will not participate in a fundraiser being planned New Year's Eve in Florida that has outraged some fans because of steep ticket prices.

A man is dead after shots were fired into a crowd of vendors setting up for a sidewalk computer street sale in downtown Dallas.

Some North Texas residents are going clucky over chickens, bringing the farm fowl home to raise in their backyards.

For Joe Kiely, the drone of thousands of trucks passing his Colorado plains town signals economic prosperity.  |   Ports to Plains Map (273.2KB)

Only 19 of 112 Texas state prisons are air-conditioned, leaving most of the state's 155,000 prisoners and those who guard them to face the summer heat with fans and primitive air-circulating systems.

The soldier who fought the Taliban in his boxers says he's glad to be back home in Fort Worth -- especially on the Fourth of July -- after his yearlong deployment to Afghanistan.

Lance Armstrong put in a solid performance in his comeback at the Tour de France on Saturday, finishing the first stage ahead of 170 riders many years younger and a respectable 10th behind winner Fabian Cancellara.

Former NFL quarterback Steve McNair has been shot and killed.

By all accounts, Shiner beer shouldn't have made it this long.