Collin County News

Sometime during the night of Dec. 3, the just-born infant girl was wrapped in a towel and left at the backdoor entrance to a 24-hour walk-in emergency room.

The other day the Washington Post ran this post featuring several maps created from data of the 2010 Religion Census , the work of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies.

Collin County jurors are deliberating the fate of a McKinney man accused in the brutal rape of a woman responding to a Craigslist ad to sublease an apartment from him.

Volunteer Dan Rippy fields a call from someone in need at the Assistance Center of Collin County office in downtown Plano.

Damage from this month's North Texas ice storm has reached at least $30 million in residential insured losses, according to an industry group.

Amy Campi says she was driving down US Route 75 southbound through Collin County when ice from an SUV in a neighboring lane flew onto her car.

The Collin County sheriff's office has concluded that no criminal offense occurred when a newborn girl was abandoned last week outside a Murphy emergency room.

Cold temperatures mixed with rain and precipitation combine to make any trip treacherous, and while the alternative of staying home is markedly safer, there are still some dangers at home that should be carefully avoided, according to Murphy Fire Marshal Perry Elliott.

Cozy evenings by the fireplace aren't quite as cozy when you're several days into a power outage and just trying to keep warm.

There were some passionate members, but even those focused much of their political energy beyond the seemingly hopeless local races.

You ran the Shutter Factory for years in Plano, selling shutters, draperies and curtains.

Our stockings are hung on the barbed wire with care during the "ice-pocalypse" at our house in Frisco on Friday, Dec. 6, 2013.

Authorities are advising people to avoid the roads as a mix of ice and freezing rain has swept across North Texas.

Flames shoot out from under a sidewalk outside the Joule Hotel early Friday morning in downtown Dallas.

A CBS 11 News crew saw a number of problems just east of Denton - in Collin County.

Roads in Collin County are under constant watch by NTTA. It started fully deploying salt and sand at roughly 4:15 p.m. on Thursday.

A 22-year-old Allen woman was sentenced to eight years in prison Thursday after she admitted causing a car wreck last year that killed a Frisco mother and her toddler.

A McKinney man was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in prison after a violent assault on his girlfriend over several days last year, according to the Collin County District Attorney's Office.

Live video from Chopper 5 will appear in the player above. From time to time the screen may go black.

According to our Valerie Wigglesworth, who was in Judge Ben Smith Judge's courtroom, judges ordered folks to take their personal belongings and leave not just the building but the property.