Dad tried to kayak in Texas floods to save his young daughters, whose last texts were ‘I love you’

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The Guadalupe River in Texas surged 26 feet in just 45 minutes. It caught everyone off guard

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In photos: Rescuers scour flood debris in Texas as hope fades for survivors

10 charged after ambush at Texas' ICE detention center

The Department of Justice filed a criminal complaint on Monday against 10 people who allegedly "organized an ambush" at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Texas on the Fourth of July. Each individual has been charged with …

Asheville volunteers send aid after catastrophic flooding in Central Texas

Helping hands from Western North Carolina are traveling nearly 20 hours to provide comfort in the wake of Kerr County’s deadly flooding catastrophe.Beloved Asheville, a nonprofit organization located in Western North Carolina, spent Tuesday afternoon …

Carl Wayne Buntion: The Oldest Person Ever Executed In Texas

Who was the oldest person to ever be put to death in Texas? As it turns out, he set this dubious record just three years ago. His run as Texas's oldest living death row inmate came to an end in 2022. Carl Wayne Buntion spent 31 years on death row in …

Tuscaloosa Fire Department’s Swift Water Rescue on standby to help Texas

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WBRC) - Some Alabama firefighters are on standby to help in the search and rescue operation in Texas, following the deadly flooding that killed so many people. The Tuscaloosa Fire Department got the initial call Monday, July 7 to start …

Extreme flooding in central Texas has left at least 82 dead

6 A total of 41 people remain missing, Texas Gov. Greg Abbot said on Sunday, July 6th. 10 girls from a summer camp are among those still missing, he said. On what should have been a festive Fourth of July, disaster struck in central Texas. Flash flooding …

Texas Rangers bullpen keeps shouldering heavy workload: ‘They’re just ready to pony up’

ANAHEIM — Texas Rangers manager Bruce Bochy laughed at a question about the availability in his bullpen Tuesday afternoon. It’s a bit of a loaded one at this stage. The bullpen had thrown an American League-high 46 innings since June 26 — a span that …

Death toll from Texas flood hits triple-digits

The death toll from the July Fourth flash flood that ravaged a swath of central Texas Hill Country rose on Tuesday to at least 109, many of them children, as search teams pressed on through mounds of mud-encrusted debris looking for scores of people still …