“Texas” on The Daily Caller

A city in Texas helped a little boy’s dream come true. (more)

Planned Parenthood has taken their Texas-sized grievance to court. (more)

The FBI arrested a Texas man earlier this week for attempting to hire illegal immigrants to kill two city officials in Arlington, Texas, after the strip club he owned was shut down. (more)

If you’ve ever asked your significant other to clean in the buff and you were rebuffed — and you happen to live in Texas — think about calling Lubbock Fantasy Maid Service. (more)

While GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum suspended his campaign Tuesday, the campaign to turn Texas into a winner-take-all primary continues. (more)

Overweight? Then don’t bother applying for a job at Citizens Medical Center, a Victoria, Texas hospital whose hiring policy prohibits the hiring of people who are obese. (more)

FARMERS BRANCH, TEXAS –  Local officials in a Dallas suburb say they plan to continue pushing for a ban on undocumented immigrants renting property within the city limits — a measure that has cost the city $5 million and remains unenforceable due to court challenges. (more)

Texas State Sen. Wendy Davis’ office was firebombed with at least one Molotov cocktail on Tuesday, causing no injuries, the Star-Telegram reported. (more)

Texas’s Women’s Health Program provides preventative health services to more than 130,000 low-income women a year. Today the program is in jeopardy, with U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announcing Friday that the federal government will stop funding it at the end of March. (more)

The Obama administration blocked Texas’s new law requiring voters to show government-issued photo identification at the polls, escalating a partisan dispute over voting restrictions. (more)

It has been nearly three years since the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the official arbiter of U.S. business cycles, declared an end to the Great Recession. But in spite of the agency’s proclamation, the labor market in many states remains stalled; in some cases, the jobs picture is getting worse. (more)

A court case filed by one animal rights group may cause three endangered species to become extinct. (more)

The Lone Star state is reminding the Obama administration of its unofficial motto: “Don’t mess with Texas.” (more)

A 2-year-old girl was tied up in a restraint attached to her bed. Nearby another 2-year-old child, a boy, was restrained to his bed, too. A third child, a blind 5-year-old girl who appeared to be in a daze, was tied up on a filthy mattress. An 11-year-old boy had a black eye and finger marks on his forearms, and one of his teeth had been knocked out. (more)

Texas Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton said Wednesday that he’s committed to figuring out why he had another alcohol relapse and is undergoing what he called a “Josh Hamilton makeover.” (more)

Texas Gov. Rick Perry may never be president, but at least he doesn’t have to pick up the full tab for his failed campaign. (more)

Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s dismal performance in the GOP presidential race appears to have hurt his popularity at home. (more)

Texas is one of only 13 states in which couples cannot simply fill out a form to begin ending their marriage. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court handed Texas Republicans a partial victory Friday, tossing a court-drawn electoral redistricting plan that favored minorities and Democrats but leaving the future of the state’s political maps – and possibly control of the U.S. House – in the hands of two federal courts with Texas’ April primaries looming. (more)

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas and a subsidiary of health care giant Johnson & Johnson reached a $158 million settlement in a Medicaid fraud lawsuit Thursday, allowing the drugmaker to pay a fraction of the potential $1 billion in penalties and fines that state officials had initially sought. (more)