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Imagine taking a yearbook photo and ending up with someone else’s body — or a stretched neck — in the final product. Yearbook photos for nearly 600 McKinney High School students were altered by a national photography company. The yearbooks were printed and delivered Monday.

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas is becoming less and less concerned about the prospect of tight electricity supplies.

A Plano megachurch minister was taken into custody Thursday after authorities say he drove to Bryan, Texas, to have sex with a person he thought to be a 13-year-old.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals gathered at the Dallas Zoo on Friday to ask zoo officials to close its elephant exhibit and send the zoo's only elephant, Jenny, to a sanctuary in Tennessee or California.

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. said Friday it will begin investing in global infrastructure assets, and hired a man who advised TXU Corp. on the buyout by KKR.

Carmela Valdez is one of 16 people, mostly Fort Worth residents, charged with using false weddings to help immigrants get legal permanent residency.

The pricey headpiece is part of an exclusive agreement between the school and New York-based jewelry company Bailey Banks & Biddle.

Texas officials have at least temporarily canceled a bid request for a border video camera network aimed at allowing the public to help spot illegal immigrants and drug smugglers.

National Power Co., a small Houston-based electric retailer that found itself in hot water for announcing plans to break fixed-rate deals with its customers, says it will honor those contracts after all.

School officials say students are showing up sick at nurse stations with symptoms that include vomiting, chest pains, tremors, palpitations, and diarrhea.

High gas prices affect everyone who drives. With gas prices breaking records every week, even a little savings can go a long way. So, CBS 11 News went to check out some of the ways you can really save.

A North Texas teenager nearly died from an overdose of alcohol and drugs. Osman Munoz was found by his middle school principal, unconscious and with a blood-alcohol content level nearly three times the legal driving limit.

Three houses in McKinney are in ruins after a quick set of three fiery explosions. Live video from Chopper 11 showed several houses in flames on Friday evening. Some nearby homes also appeared to have suffered extensive damage.

He's been a leading pastor in South Dallas for the past 25 years and Friday evening Dr. Frederick Haynes learned he will not be the next national president of the NAACP.

Popular drinks among North Texas teenagers are now causing concern for one local school district. Some school officials in Arlington want energy drinks to be banned from campuses.

One person is hospitalized early after apparently being shot, NBC 5 reports.

McKinney school officials say they are appalled by altered photos -- including heads on different bodies -- in hundreds of high school yearbooks delivered this week.

Firefighters battle a large house fire after a gas line exploded in the 600 block of Fenet Street in McKinney, NBC 5 reports.

Two toddlers are hospitalized after nearly drowning in their backyard pool, NBC 5 reports.

A Dallas family practice doctor is in jail accused of killing his wife, police say.

Imagine posing for a yearbook photo and ending up with someone else's body – or looking nude – in the final product. Yearbook photos for 583 McKinney High School students were altered by a national photography company.

Relatives of Sara Werner said they never believed that she took her own life at the Farmers Branch home she shared with her new husband.

Few formulas spark as much debate in Dallas as 14-1, the system in which the city elects its council and the mayor.

1988 – Roy Williams and Marvin Crenshaw file a federal voting rights lawsuit, contending that the city's election system dilutes minority voting strength. The Ledbetter Neighborhood Association, representing Hispanic residents, joins the plaintiffs.

Underneath the war in Iraq, there's an unseen battle raging at home in the United States. It's the struggle of wounded veterans to pay their bills.

The Chinese Community in North Texas is doing its part to help victims of Monday's 7.9 earthquake in the Sichuan Province. KERA's BJ Austin reports.

The debate was intense, and not everyone agreed, but in the end, the Dallas City Council voted 11-2 in favor of a Convention Center Hotel. KERA's BJ Ausin reports

Dallas City Hall wants to know WHY a local towing company is charging a fee that no one's ever heard-of. The city calls the inquiry a prosecution in progress. KERA's BJ Austin reports.

We seemingly have a day, week or month honoring anything that appeared to be a good idea. That said, commentator Matthew Broyles offers a counter proposal.

The state will begin using a car insurance data base to determine whether a driver has coverage - as required by law. But as KUT's Ben Philpott reports - the system is not without its critics.

A Mesquite officer who was pursuing a hit-and-run suspect flipped his squad car Friday afternoon. He was not injured, but the suspect got away.

A woman was shot Friday night in an apparent carjacking in the parking lot of Nordstroms outside Dallas' Northpark Mall.

At least three people were injured when two homes exploded in McKinney Friday evening. Medical helicopters transported the victims to area hospitals.

A woman in the parking lot of Nordstroms outside the Northpark Mall in Dallas was shot Friday night in an apparent carjacking.

A police cruiser chasing a suspect crashed in a Mesquite neighborhood Friday. FOX 4's James Rose explains what happened.

BH Properties LLC, a private real estate investment firm, has bought nine office and retail properties in the Dallas-Fort Worth area from Puget of Texas Inc.

James Nelson, founder of Mayday Manufacturing Co. and father-in-law of State Sen. Jane Nelson, R- Flower Mound, has died at the age of 78.

With new payday lending regulations a few short steps from becoming law in Ohio, some in the industry are moving to vacate the state as they vowed they would. (CSH)

Macy's Inc. has inked a deal to open FAO Schwarz toy stores in 275 of its locations this year, with plans to expand the partnership into 685 Macy's stores over the next two years. (M)

The board of Exco Resources Inc., an oil and natural gas producer, has approved a $123 million increase to its capital budget, raising its total budget to $923 million for 2008. (XCO)

It would be totally irresponsible to provide additional money for DISD when they can't provide an adequate reporting of their current financial status.

DSM says CPA will cannibalize other theaters. CPA says DSM is afraid of competition. We say 'bout time rich people fought rich people.

Opponents of a city plan to publicly fund and own a convention center hotel are talking about—but so far not acting on—a last-ditch option to derail the project: Let voters decide for themselves if they want to invest up to half a billion dollars to become hoteliers.

King Henry VIII was on the throne, working his way through Anne Boleyn on his wife-littered path to notoriety. The village of Scarborough, England, was under siege, not from power-hungry French or Spanish kings but from a virus of unknown origin.

Having just read Great Scot's question and your response, I can't help but think that he is one of those Americans who calls himself Scottish because his surname starts with Mc or Mac or his great-great granny once drunk a whisky.

Lawyers for Pilot Point and Celina will be back in district court Thursday, even though 362nd District Judge Bruce McFarling issued a final order on their long-standing boundary dispute two months ago.

James Howard Nelson, patriarch of Denton County’s Republican Party, died early Friday morning in Denton after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 78.

A grand jury indicted George Henry for murder Feb. 23, 1897, the same day he bashed in jailer Floyd Coberly’s head with a length of cordwood.

Police arrested a man early Friday after seeing him apparently trying to pull down a fence in the 100 block of Fry Street. According to a police report, bicycle officers rode up about 2:25 a.m. to the intersection of Fry and Hickory streets where buildings have been razed and a fence installed.

The city of Denton sued Biodiesel Industries Inc. and its local affiliate for breach of contract Thursday, saying the company failed to produce enough biodiesel fuel and ceased production at least twice without warning.