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"I couldn't fall back asleep because, like, I just had a gut feeling that something bad was about to happen." Lucy Kennedy ...

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 ...

The camp, nestled between the banks of the Guadalupe River and its Cypress Creek tributary, had just begun its monthlong term for hundreds of girls. Attending Camp Mystic is a summertime ritual for ...