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A concert by the hip-hop band The Roots at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin was canceled because of a hoax bomb threat, local officials have confirmed.

A year-end study by Zillow, the real estate website, revealed that U.S. home values soared in 2017 reaching a record $31.8 trillion. Its list of the nation’s 35 largest markets included four Texas metropolitan areas that made impressive gains, notably Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston.

Authorities foiled a Texas man’s plan to fly to Florida to lure a 9-year-old girl into having sex with him, police say.

City councils are being harassed to approve new apartment developments by residents who are angry about spiking rents and screaming “Yes in My Back Yard” YIMBY) to generate competition to rein in greedy landlords.

A woman from the border city of Laredo, Texas, was arrested in Austin after authorities found more than $2 million in liquid meth inside her vehicle. The woman was traveling with her 4-year-old daughter.

Former Vice President Joe Biden is cashing in on his new book by charging hundreds of dollars to those who want an autographed copy.

Two years after the State threw out the sexual and satanic ritual abuse case against former Texas child day care owners Dan and Fran Keller, the Travis County District Attorney declared them “actually innocent” and dropped all existing charges, finally exonerating the couple who maintained their innocence since their 1992 convictions.

ACT for America, the nation’s largest grassroots organization devoted to promoting national security and defeating terrorism, organized marches “against Sharia and for human rights” in 28 U.S. cities. In Texas, the rallies took place on Saturday in Dallas, Houston, and Austin.

LinkedIn’s Workforce Report for June found that of the 20 largest U.S. metropolitan areas, Silicon Valley has plunged to 12th place in job attractiveness.

The anti-sanctuary city law in Texas, arguably the toughest in the country, has been incendiary and the fight to its passage has been emotional. Now, two Democrat-dominated cities in Texas are joining the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and other open border and pro-amnesty organizations to block the law.

In central Texas, authorities arrested a former assistant principal Monday for allegedly choking a 10-year-old boy at a roller staking rink.

A National Guard soldier headed home from a deployment to Afghanistan says he was charged a hefty fee to check his military bag.

An investigation in Waco, Texas, led to the discovery of a Chinese sex trafficking ring in that victimized 16 Chinese women.

Following a fight outside a Texas nightclub, an illegal immigrant is now being accused of killing a man over a parking spot.

Uber has suspended its multi-state testing program for autonomous vehicles after one of its self-driving Volvos flipped up on its side after an accident.

Sixty mayors from around the country on Tuesday held press conferences and other events to show their support for immigrants both legal and illegal.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper says his 7-year-old son has started using President Trump’s term “fake news.”

A United Airlines pilot was removed from a plane before a flight from Austin to San Francisco Saturday evening after going on a rant over the intercom system.

U.S. Marshals are searching for a tattoo-covered sex offender who failed to report to a transitional center after he was released from prison.

A sizzling residential real estate market fueled by incoming Californians, low supply, high demand, flat salaries, and local property taxes are pricing people out of homeownership in Austin.

Hundreds of protesters opposed to an anti-sanctuary city and campus bill descended on the Texas Capitol on Thursday. Shouts of “Governor Abbott is a fascist” and applause and shouts broke the normal decorum of the Senate Gallery.

A short investigation was launched after a Travis County judge wore a pink, knitted “pussy hat” in her courtroom late in January causing, some to doubt her impartiality from the bench.

Last weekend, Women’s Marches were held in cities all over the globe but pro-life women were not welcome. Pro-life activists in Texas will be convening at Texas’ Capitol this weekend to demonstrate their anti-abortion, pro-life convictions during the 44th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

FBI Director James Comey is set to speak at the South by Southwest (SXSW) music, art and film festival in Austin, Texas in March.

A Texas man is accused of killing his stepmom because he thought she was “gloating” about the Dallas Cowboys winning a football game, according to court documents.

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Demonstrators are gathering outside the Texas Capitol in hopes of persuading more than three dozen Republican electors to cast their ballot for someone other than President-elect Donald Trump.

Six Communist protesters were arrested in Austin, Texas after the scene turned violent against Trump supporters when hundreds gathered near the Capitol.

A medical examiner ruled the death of a 15-year-old boy burned alive in a Chicago alley a homicide Monday, The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office reported.

A Texas high school student has been invited to the White House by President Obama for his film that highlights a man who says “I want to live in a world where there are no guns” and where he does not “have to worry about getting picked on by the police.”

A man revealed to be part of a conspiracy to murder a Texas judge and commit banking fraud is now reported to be on the loose in the Houston, Texas region.

Failed gubernatorial candidate and former State Senator Wendy Davis hit the streets of Austin, Texas, to campaign for Hillary Clinton on September 17. She sees the races and the presidential election in the historically red state to be in jeopardy.

Donald Trump continued his appeal to African American and other minority voters on Tuesday during a campaign rally in Austin, Texas, and blasted his rival Hillary Clinton “who sees communities of color only as votes.”

The chairman of the Travis County Republican Party is leading the protest against GOP nominee Donald Trump. The county chairman dressed up in a jester’s hat and carried a sign calling Trump a “child rapist.”

A Texas-based active-wear company with an obvious name is seeing record sales of its signature item after a spate of assaults on female joggers.

Not since 1985 has San Antonio enjoyed a professional football team within its immediate media market. If the Oakland Raiders have their way, the Alamo City could be competing with Las Vegas for Texas’ third franchise, at the expense of local taxpayers according to a Breitbart Texas interview with Stanford University economics professor Roger Noll.

To address the “barrage of questions” that has hit Travis County Republicans after the election of their controversial chairman, the county GOP organization has armed itself with a public relations campaign titled “Travis County Republicans Are Bigger Than That.”