Cooke County News

During the City of Gainesville council meeting Tuesday evening members discussed and took action to move the fully automated solid waste collection program forward.

The Morton Museum of Cooke County kicked off its 14th annual bell sale with a reception Thursday evening.

A Gainesville organization is hoping for a crowded office again this year, as volunteers begin filling the Boys and Girls club with gifts for the county's Littlest Angels.

Crowds began gathering early for the annual Veteran's Day celebration at Leonard Park.

During Monday's Cooke County Commissioners Court, commissioners voted 5-0 to proclaim November as Home Care and Hospice Month in Cooke County.

A grand jury has indicted a Sanger man on a charge of murdering his estranged wife, nearly five years after she was last seen at his house and never heard from again.

Looking for a way to show appreciation for America's veterans while having fun with friends and family? Leonard Park is a good place to be when the city Parks & Recreation Department sponsors its annual Veteran's Day Celebration at the Cooke County Veterans War Memorial in Leonard Park Wednesday.

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.