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The tragic flood in Central Texas was on the minds of the Longhorns that traveled to Atlanta for the SEC Media Days.

After the devastating Texas flood, former Mystic campers have been making Tweety Cookies for first responders, fundraisers and comfort.

The flash flooding deluged summer camps in Kerr County, dotted along the Guadalupe River, and also left families in Burnet, Kendall, Tom Green, Travis and Williamson Counties looking for family ...

A select few Texas Longhorns players and coaches are proudly representing the program at SEC Media Days in Atlanta this week, but considering recent events, it ...

A Camp Mystic camper will be escorted home to Bellville today by law enforcement agencies. Virginia Hollis, 8, was "a pure, ...

Single parent McLeod McCrory, 50, has shared notes her daughter Blakely, eight, penned during her final days at the doomed Christian camp for girls in Hunt, Kerr County.

Virginia Hollis was among the campers missing from Camp Mystic after the Guadalupe River flooded over the Fourth of July weekend. According to Bellville Police Chief Jason Smalley, Virginia, who is ...

Blakely McCrory, an 8-year-old from Bellaire, wrote her mom a letter from Camp Mystic before she died in the July 4 flood.

The mother of an 8-year-old girl who died during catastrophic flooding at Camp Mystic in Texas received something “very special” after her death. In one of two letters written to her mother, Blakely ...

Days after floodwaters swept through Camp Mystic and other parts of Central Texas, rescuers recovered the body of camper, ...

For many families, the most serious warnings about the deadly and raging torrent in Texas Hill Country on July 4 came too ...