Cooke County News

Cooke County Republican Women elected their officers for 2010 During their Nov. 5 meeting.

Bonham Mayor Roy Floyd today encouraged citizens to volunteer to help our Senior Center with 'Meals on Wheels' delivery.

Students at Headstart Academy got a surprise Friday when volunteers from Coats for Kids delivered approximately 69 new winter jackets to the school.

The second annual Quality Counts workshop in Cooke County was held Oct. 24 at the Martin Trubenbach MISD Ag Center under the direction of Phyllis Griffin, county 4-H agent and her committee of volunteers.

While October usually brings rain - 3.96 inches on average - accumulations have piled up at an unseasonable pace this year.

Far from tea-party protests and talk-show blather, nobody was joking about Texas secession Saturday at a tiny cemetery in Cooke County.

The severe burning of four children in Woodbine last January and the subsequent conviction of the children's mother on charges of causing serious bodily harm to a child once again brought to light the plight of abused children in Cooke County.

Cooke County will now provide jail services to Hill County for a 12 month period, beginning Nov.

A special dedication ceremony was held Saturday, Oct. 24 to honor the Clark Cemetery where Nathaniel Miles Clark, a Great Hanging victim, and his family are buried.

For Cooke County Judge John Roane, restoring the courthouse is an act to preserve both the county's history and his own.

A semi truck loses control, careening off a major highway, onto private property in Oakridge Tuesday night, just after 6:30 p.m. Fire officials tell us the 18-wheeler was westbound on Highway 82, when it left the roadway, ran through some trees, and ended up on the property of 8387 Highway 82.

The Morton Musem of Cooke County will host its second annual Ghostin' Around Gainesville tour beginning Thursday, Oct.

A Cooke County mother is received a 10-year prison sentence for her role in the Jan.

Thanks to a $109,827.84 grant from Homeland Security, Cooke County Emergency Management Coordinator Ray Fletcher said the county will be able to purchase items such as radios, security cameras for the exterior of the courthouse, interview room enhancements for the Sheriff's office, a mass causality trailer for EMS and more.

With chemical burn scars on the right side of his face, Cynthia Stout's 15 year old son Brian testified in 235th District Court Wednesday about the acid burn incident which left him, his brother and two of his sisters seriously injured in Woodbine last January.

Board members voted 4-0 to approve the collection contracts during the Cooke County Appraisal District board of directors meeting Oct.

The Cooke County mother whose boyfriend spilled acid on her children back in a car back in January was in court Wednesday.

The trial of a mother accused of four counts of injury to a child is set to start in Cooke County.

Noah's Ark Animal Shelter is having its big annual fund raiser on Oct. 15 starting at 6 p.m. at the Gainesville Civic Center.

A man is trapped inside a semi following a three-vehicle crash on Highway 82 West in Cooke County.