Cooke County News

A severe thunderstorm warning has been issued for northwestern Collin County, southern Cooke County and northeastern Denton County until 11:30 a.m. Storms that swept through North Texas overnight and into the early morning brought hail and led to power outages across the area.

Plainview's Rep. Jim Landtroop will have to wait two months to find out whether the voters in the drastically redrawn Texas House District 88 send him to Austin for a second two-year term.

Dr. Susan Thomas, Executive Director of Texoma Council of Governments , has announced that TCOG hosted the 2012 Texoma Regional 9-1-1 Telecommunicator Awards Banquet to recognize 9-1-1 call takers and their exemplary skills in handling emergency communications.

What do you get when your new legislative district has 17 counties, and only one of them is in your old district? If you're Rep.

It's a crowded primary on the Republican side of the ticket with one Democrat waiting to find out who he will challenge in November.

They may not be out where the action is, but when every second counts, lives depend on 911 dispatchers.

For the four Republican candidates running for the open seat in Texas House District 68, campaigning in the 22-county district is a major hurdle because it covers more than 300 miles from east to west - including eight counties in the South Plains - and almost the same distance from north to south.

Tonight we'll have some clouds moving in form the west with a steady south wind.

The Texas House primary that impacts most of the central and eastern Texas Panhandle is in District 88, but Republican voters in 14 other regional counties also will vote in an equally important election in neighboring District 68.

Early voting for the May 29 Democratic and Republican primaries begins Monday, and for GOP voters in 14 rural counties in the Texas Panhandle and in the South Plains, it is time to decide who should represent them in Austin for the next two years.

He's a young rancher trying to grow a cattle operation while many producers are hanging up their spurs or Craigslisting their all-terrain vehicles.

A trial date has been set for one of four people charged in the death of a 4-year-old Gainesville boy last September.