Last night was the first Tuesday night in five months that American Idol wasn’t on television. To be honest, I didn’t know what to do with myself. What is on TV on Tuesday nights? my ...

In a dramatic two-ballot vote Tuesday, Republican state Rep. Dustin Burrows of Lubbock clinched the title of speaker of the Texas House.

Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, was elected speaker of the Texas House on Tuesday, concluding a bitter and intense power struggle within the Republican Party that came down to an extraordinary floor ...

Or so they keep telling us. So here they are, the top 24 contestants that will now sing for their supper and our votes. Do you have any early favorites? Who will you be casting your votes ...

Lubbock Republican state Rep. Dustin Burrows clinched the Texas House speakership Tuesday in the culmination of an unusually long and unusually public mudfight for the role.

Dustin Burrows or Rep. David Cook. Imagine the Texas House of Representatives as a conclave of cardinals, each with their own agendas, alliances and ambitions. The selection of the Speaker of the ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — In less than two weeks the newest Texas Legislature will be sworn in at the state Capitol and the first important item on the to-do list for state representatives will be ...

David Cook, a founding member of Northern Ireland's Alliance Party and the first non-unionist lord mayor of Belfast since partition, has died. Cook, who has been described as a beacon of ...