A new burger joint plans to offer students a fresh atmosphere, job opportunities and special university-spirited foods, a city official said.

Smashburger, a Denver-based restaurant, will open a new franchise across from University Park Village in the beginning of October, Managing Director for the Fort Worth Market Chris Fleming said.

Lani Reeves, an official from Smashburger's public relations agency, said the restaurant would feature burgers named to suit the Texas region and unique items related to the university.

TEHRAN, Iran 8212; Iran will free Sarah Shourd, one of the Americans jailed for more than 13 months, as an act of benevolence to mark the end of Ramadan.

The imprisonment of the Americans has deepened tensions between the U.S. and Iran, a relationship already strained over Washington's suspicions that Tehran is trying to manufacture nuclear weapons 8212; something Iran denies.

At the age of 10, junior math major Clara Ramirez arrived in the U.S. from Apaseo el Grande, Mexico with no knowledge of the language of her new home. After witnessing her parents' struggles with the...

The Horned Frog volleyball team heads to New Brunswick, N.J. for the Rutgers Invitational this weekend concerned more with its own performance than with upcoming opponents, head coach Prentice Lewis said.

The volleyball team also has to worry about how to cope with the injury of its main setter, Megan Munce, and utilize the back up setter, she said. Munce will not play in the tournament due to a knee injury received last week against LSU.

Award-winning country band Lady Antebellum will take a break from its fall tour schedule to perform on campus, a Brown-Lupton University Union administrator said.

Student Government Association President Marlon Figueroa said SGA members wanted to bring in someone big to commemorate the university's 100th year in Fort Worth as well as the university's recent athletic and academic success.

While most Horned Frog fans are probably complaining about Boise State University getting a little, um, "help", from the refs against tenth-ranked Virginia Tech University on Monday, few are really realizing how this Boise State win is awesome for TCU down the road.

Thanks in large part to the Boise State win, for the first time in BCS history, two teams that are not in a BCS automatic qualifying conference are ranked among the top five in the nation.

Saturday the Horned Frog Football team will play its last home season opener in Amon G. Carter stadium before the stadium is renovated at the end of the season.

The Horned Frogs open play Tennessee Tech, a team that Head Coach Gary Patterson has a personal history with. Patterson received a master's degree in educational administration from Tennessee Tech in 1984 and was the linebackers coach for two seasons. However, Patterson said he didn't have many positive memories during his time at Tennessee Tech.

The exceeding of the campaign goal and the ranking of the school among the 100 best colleges of 2010 will be featured in the university's 138th annual Fall Convocation. Chancellor Victor Boschini will...

I've been writing these opinions for two years and a lot has changed around TCU. The university added Scharbauer Hall, and Milton Daniel Hall is now a pleasure to live in. One thing I've noticed, however, is that environmentalism has changed on campus. Instead of being pushed in my face like it was freshman year, the issue has, thankfully, softened up. The change made me think back to a column I wrote as a freshman but never got published. I thought recalling it would make a statement to environmentalists or those who have environmentalist tendencies.

Certain types of films are inherently formulaic. Whether it's a Western, a cop flick or, in this case, a certain sub-sub genre: the heist film. In such cases, it is not what the director does as much as how he or she does it. Although this is true for plenty of films, it is especially true with a heist flick.

This is why I can forgive "Takers" for its formulaic plot, to some extent. Beyond this grace, it is hard to absolve a film so trite and clichéd. The film places style firmly above substance 8212; and the style is not that interesting.