Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The State Fair of Texas wouldn’t be the same without the 55-foot-tall animatronic cowboy Big Tex greeting fair goers with a ...

The event on the National Mall has drawn criticism and mockery online, but visitors this week praised the Lone Star State's ...

DALLAS, Texas (KXII) - He was “born” in 1952, stands 55 feet over the Texas State Fairgrounds, with a 95-gallon hat to top it off. It’s the iconic, Big Tex. Every Fall, the voice of Big Tex booms into ...

Big Tex, the beloved State Fair of Texas icon, returns to Fair Park on Friday. (If you’ve been under a rock lately, the big guy burned down last October in spectacular fashion, attracting national ...

An early morning fire all but destroyed the iconic "Big Tex" statue at the Texas State Fair on Friday. The news reached all the way in Nairobi, Kenya, where John Burnett is currently based. There is ...

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Friday's fire that destroyed Big Tex, the 60-year-old icon of the State Fair of Texas, quickly became international news. Saturday saw more makeshift memorials put up for Big Tex ...

Big Tex is a fashionista, but he is a one-brand kind of guy. For the last 20 years, Dickies has been outfitting the 55-foot-tall animatronic cowboy that greets visitors at the State Fair of Texas.

DALLAS - Big Tex might have burned down, but he lives on in our hearts and minds - and in Wayne Smith's driveway. There Tex was on Halloween, sitting on a trailer bed, his 6-foot head grinning, his ...

Flames consumed the exterior of the 52-foot-tall, cotton-eyed cyborg around 10:15 a.m., say Dallas firefighters, who didn't immediately know the cause of the blaze. Fair officials told the Associated ...

DALLAS (CBS 11 NEWS) - Big Tex wasn't always Big Tex. He got his big start as "Big Santa" in Kerens, Texas November of 1949. The novelty wore off and "Big Santa "was out of a job. The State Fair of ...