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Three major Republican candidates are vying to replace Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who's retiring after serving for nearly 20 years. The front-runner is the state's lieutenant governor, who's backed by the GOP establishment. Challenging him are a Tea Party conservative and a former mayor of Dallas.

Dallas standoff ends with fatal crane fall UNIVERSITY PARK, Texas (AP) — A man dangled from the cab of a 150-foot construction crane before falling to his death early Tuesday at a college campus in Dallas, ending a more than 14-hour standoff, police said. The man, whose name has not been released, had spent a sweltering afternoon on the crane at the Southern Methodist University campus at ...

Midyear releases from Texas recording artists include the national debut CD of the Royalty and Shawn Colvin’s first studio album in six years.

There is a saying that goes, "I wasn't born in Texas, but I got here as soon as I could." This adage could apply to Ricky Phillips, bass player for the legendary rock band Styx.

The Josh Abbott Band reached for the stars for their first-ever music video, "Touch." With a surprising Hollywood twist and a lovely leading lady (Melissa Rycroft from CMT's Melissa & Tye ), the cinematic clip has carried the Texas-based band to a national audience.

The Goodnight Middle School Beginning and advanced bands brought home two trophies from the Texas Lutheran Band Festival held Friday, May 18. According to band director Michelle Adam, the bands performed even more difficult pieces than they did at the UIL competition that earned them a Sweepstakes Award.

The Saints and Sinners stage at Bamboozle housed many acts this weekend, but one performance in particular stands well above the rest. Sundays Texas In July set was everything one can expect a Bamboozle performance to be.

A boy's plaid Western shirt bumps up against a row of rock 'n' roll radio-station Top 40 lists from the '60s, a business card from a long-gone South Side beauty shop and a small red date book. Sahm, the San Antonio-born and -bred musical mix master, the groover, the Texas Tornado, the fast-talking Scorpio, didn't quit moving until his death from a heart attack in 1999. San Antonio-raised Moser ...

MEXICO CITY — Declining to speculate whether any of the 49 mutilated bodies dumped on a highway leading to the Texas border were innocent victims or who killed them, Mexico's interior minister Monday implored citizens to help officials root out the bosses behind the violence. “These are absolutely condemnable acts,” Poire said in a brief news conference, repeating a mantra offered by Mexican ...

Signs line the streets of Queen City, Texas in support of an award winning band program, residents say is at risk. The movement of taxpayers comes after cuts to the high school band budget.