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Fort Worth, Texas

FORT WORTH, TX - APRIL 13: Tony Stewart, driver of the #14 Mobil 1/Bass Pro Shops Chevrolet, greets former wrestler Shawn Michaels during pre-race ceremonies for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series NRA 500 at Texas Motor Speedway on April 13, 2013 in Fort Worth, Texas.

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  • Passengers slog home after 'horrible' Gulf cruise

    home."It's going to be a very long day," said Dwayne McAbee, who says he'll drive from Galveston to his home in Fort Worth, Texas , a roughly six to seven hour drive.Tugs began pulling the ship away from the dock Friday morning, moving it backward down a waterway   Read more »

  • US Airways hopes to gain legitimacy with merger

    leading airline. He and the US Airways management team will move their headquarters from Tempe, Ariz., to American's home in Fort Worth, Texas.If the deal gets government approval and goes through, US Airways would -- for the first time in its history -- ascend   Read more »

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About Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth is the seventeenth-largest city in the United States of America and the fifth-largest city within the state of Texas. Located in North Texas and a cultural gateway into the American West, the city covers nearly 300 square miles (780 km2) in Tarrant, Parker, and Denton counties, serving as the county seat for Tarrant County. According to 2009 estimates by the North Central Texas Council of Governments, the city has a population of 720,250, with an estimated growth to 750,000 by the 2010 decennial U. S. Census . The city is the second-largest cultural and economic center of the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area (commonly called the Metroplex). Fort Worth and the surrounding Metroplex area offer numerous business opportunities and a wide array of attractions.

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