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At least 118 people are dead and dozens are still missing after devastating flash floods slammed Texas Hill Country, with ...

Texas inspectors approved Camp Mystic’s emergency plan just two days before devastating floods killed over 27 people, mostly children, at the Texas summer camp.

The family of Clark Hunt, the chairman and CEO of the Kansas City Chiefs, is mourning the loss of a 9-year-old cousin, Janie ...

Crews are using backhoes and their bare hands to dig through piles of debris that stretch for miles in the search for more ...

Several Kerrville Independent School District teachers and staff members drove school buses full of hundreds of campers from ...

An budding 8-year-old actress. Twin sisters from Dallas. A man who rescued his family, but died the effort. These are a few ...

The death toll from the July 4 flash flood that ravaged a swath of central Texas Hill Country rose on Tuesday to at least 109 ...

Virginia first lady Suzanne Youngkin and other family members were vacationing at the Youngkins' property along the Guadalupe ...

Search teams persisted in sifting through debris in Texas Hill Country on Wednesday as hopes of finding more survivors dimmed ...

The advisory, set to expire at 4:45 p.m., warns of urban and small stream flooding, with up to 1 inch of rain already fallen and another inch possible. Minor flooding is expected in areas ...