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Before heading to bed before the Fourth of July holiday, Christopher Flowers checked the weather while staying at a friend's ...

The girls from Camp Mystic, a riverside Christian camp in Hunt, Texas, still were unaccounted for about 36 hours after the ...

At least 32 people are dead and dozens remain missing after flash floods overwhelmed communities along the Guadalupe River in Texas Hill Country.

KERR COUNTY, Texas — A devastating scene unfolded in the Hill Country on the Fourth of July as dozens of people, including ...

Anguished parents waited for word on the more than two dozen children still missing from Camp Mystic, a Christian girls' camp ...

Rescuers scoured a devastated landscape in an increasingly bleak mission as they searched for missing people, including 27 ...

NPR has compiled a timeline of when local, state and federal officials posted warnings on social media as well as the ...

A Texas father's courageous final act has captured national attention as he sacrificed his life to save his loved ones from a devastating flash flood. Julian Ryan, just 27 years old, died in the early ...

Rescuers scoured a devastated central Texas landscape of mangled trees, overturned cars and muck-filled debris Saturday in an ...

Kerr County has reported 28 adults and 15 children deceased, Travis County has counted four deaths, Kendall and Tom Green ...