Collin County News

Swamped by voters in the spring presidential primary, Texas election administrators are looking to recruit more poll workers for the big showdown in November.

Forbes.com has rated "America's best places to raise a family," and Collin County comes in at No.

Rachelle Trevino is loading up for the Fourth. "That's pretty good for $26," she says of a 12-shot artillery shell, her latest had-to-have from Lafon's fireworks stand in Collin County.

By JENNIFER EMILY and STEVE McGONIGLE / The Dallas Morning News jemily@dallasnews.com smcgonigle@dallasnews.com DNA testing could have freed Patrick Leondos Waller seven years ago from a life sentence for armed ...

Call it the $26 million typo. Collin County today released the terms of a severance agreement with Teen Court Coordinator Justin Nichols, who said earlier this year his job was targeted because he is gay.

Homophobic Math Pew Report - Religion and Homosexuality At first glance, David Benkof appears to be a young gay man who believes that same-sex marriage will damage the institution of marriage, that there are ...

Tears streamed down Tawnia King's face before she even got to the front door of her Celina home.

The execution clock is ticking again for condemned inmate Charles Dean Hood, whose scheduled trip to the Texas death chamber last week was aborted by state prison officials who ran out of time because of ...

We've been hearing a lot about homeowners associations lately. Critics argue they have too much power.

Janet Zamudio, 19, mourns her older sister Ivonne. 'She didn't deserve to die like that,' she says.

Condemned inmate Charles Dean Hood doesn't dispute he drove from Texas to his native Indiana in a $70,000 car that belonged to the man he's convicted of killing.

You wouldn't have wanted to be Charles Dean Hood last night. Hood waited in a holding cell adjacent to the death chamber in Huntsville for hours while lawyers with the Collin County district attorney's office ...

Garland police detectives raced an oncoming storm to collect evidence linked to the violent deaths of two men early Thursday.

Charles Dean Hood avoided death Tuesday night, at least temporarily after a volley of appeals cleared the way for his execution, but left state prison officials without enough time to perform the execution ...

A fast-moving line of thunderstorms rolled into North Texas late Tuesday morning with inch-an-hour rainfall and straight-line winds gusting into the 70 mph range, the National Weather Service said.

Dena Schlosser, the Plano mother who killed her baby by cutting off her arms, has told a judge that she believes she's ready to be released from a state mental hospital.

Lawyers for a convicted North Texas killer facing execution next week have filed an appeal, alleging his prosecutor and trial judge were having an affair at the time of his trial.

Police arrested a driver involved in an accident that took the life of a McKinney teacher and mother on Saturday.

By ELIZABETH LANGTON / The Dallas Morning News elangton@dallasnews.com A Dallas County jury took just over 30 minutes today to convict former Rockwall County District Attorney Ray Sumrow of theft by a public ...

McKinney City Council at-large candidates Pete Huff and Sherry Tucker David raked in a combined total of $21,798.50 in contributions from May 2 to early June.