Plano, Texas, tops list of America's safest cities...

Overall wealth of a community is key to keeping violent crime down

(Dec. 28) Plano, Texas, has some pretty ho-hum claims to fame: It's home to junk-food headquarters Frito-Lay and the Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, for starters, as well as to retail giant J.C. Penney. But it's also America's safest city by our determination, and that's nothing to yawn at.

Plano, a city of 278,000 that's just outside Dallas, boasts the lowest violent crime rate of the cities we looked at and the sixth-lowest traffic fatality rate, putting it tops on our list for the second year in a row.  Read more