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

Follow for live updates in the Texas flooding as more than 160 are missing as rescuers continue a desperate search ...

Kerr County officials say they are still focused mainly on the search for survivors with hundreds still missing and weren't ...

Two days before flash floods on the Guadalupe River in Texas killed dozens of campers at a Christian girls summer camp, a ...

With more than 170 still missing, communities must reconcile how to pick up the pieces around a waterway that remains both a ...

Federal forecasters issued their first flood warning at 1:14 a.m. on July 4. Local officials haven’t shed light on when they ...

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

More than 100 bodies have been recovered, but another 160+ people are still missing after the flash floods days ago.

Julian Ryan’s final words to his mother as floodwaters quickly engulfed their trailer home were simply, “I love you.” He had made a split-second decision to thrust his arm through a window to help his ...