Collin County News

Numbers released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau show Collin County cities are once again leading North Texas and the nation in population growth.

A couple in McKinney, Texas, has been together for nearly three years. They've been together following one's messy divorce.

Texas Department of Transportation officials met Thursday, April 25, 2013 with representatives of Texas Highway Maintenance, LLC, of Pearland, Texas in a pre-construction meeting devoted to traffic safety and construction procedures to be used during the full depth concrete repair on US 75 in Grayson County.

Update at 5:21 p.m., May 22, by Tristan Hallman: Alcocer has been arrested on an outstanding burglary warrant, police said Wednesday.

A grand jury has indicted a North Texas man who authorities say threatened his fiancee with a handgun and then set her home on fire during a police standoff.

A judge has ruled that a North Texas lesbian couple can't live together because of a morality clause in one of the women's divorce papers.

Every so often a divorce proceeding involves something called a "morality clause." They are meant to keep a divorcing parent's children away from new girlfriends or boyfriends, and a potentially unstable or unsafe environment.

An 82-year-old man is accused of killing his son and grandson in their home in a small Collin County town in Texas.

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A while back, before his father retired as district attorney against a backdrop of small-town political intrigue , Collin County District Judge John Roach Jr.

The land near Lavon Lake will be used for a 206-lot, luxury home community called Brockdale.

In the matter of just a few weeks, TAPS Public Transit has been designated to manage and operate the public transportation system for both Collin County's rural areas and in the City of McKinney.

LaRosiliere will be the first black mayor in the 260,000-person city's history. LaRosiliere held a commanding lead over Fred Moses after early voting, a lead he never relinquished.

Plano passed an a proposal to allow the sale of hard liquor and liquor stores in city limits.

McKinney residents turned out to cast their ballots in the general election to vote for the mayor and city council representatives for District 1, District 3 and one at-large seat.

The referendum to allow the stores inside Plano city limits is leading with more than 67 percent of the early vote.

TAPS buses are on track to travel more than two million miles this year, and with this new acquisition, their service population will multiply exponentially.

A North Texas junior high school teacher has been placed on leave after being arrested for allegedly having inappropriate physical contact with a child.

Clark Junior High School math teacher Matthew Pappas was placed on leave May 8, 2013 after he was arrested on a charge of aggravated sexual assault of a child.

A Plano man was sentenced Wednesday to 37 years in prison after a Collin County jury convicted him of sexually abusing his stepdaughter for years.