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The Boys & Girls Club in Sallisaw, Oklahoma - near the Arkansas border - was forced to evacuate as heavy rain fell and flooded the River Valley.

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

The deadly flash floods in central Texas that claimed more than 100 lives over the July Fourth weekend in the United States ...

Fears grew Wednesday (Jul 9) that the death toll of 110 in the Texas floods could still surge as hopes fade of finding ...

A public backlash is enveloping Kerr County over the local steps taken after the National Weather Service warned of a ...

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company took action against its Grok chatbot on Wednesday, removing a post it had made ...

As calls for accountability continue surrounding the deadly flood in Kerr County, state inspection reports show a recent history of safety compliance at a girls’ summer camp that has become the ...