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“Oh my God, we’re floating,” Ruffin Boyett realized. The campers had to make a quick decision. “The flood started getting ...

The suspicion that the family was practising occult rituals grew so strong among the villagers that it drove them to brutally ...

A family of 33 and a woman who escaped with her dogs on a kayak are among the survivors of the Texas flooding tragedy, ...

The 33 family members were staying at the hotel Friday when the Guadalupe River rose more than 25 feet in under an hour. In ...

The family of Kansas City Chiefs owner Clark Hunt is grieving the loss of a 9-year-old girl who died in the flash floods in ...

Oswego trustees as a committee of the whole recently discussed relocating the village’s dog park to prepare for the future ...

Families sifted through waterlogged debris Sunday and stepped inside empty cabins at Camp Mystic, an all-girls summer camp ...

Camp Mystic confirmed Monday it was “grieving the loss of 27 campers and counselors” after deadly flooding in central Texas.