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The community is invited to a special gathering at Memorial Garden Park on Friday to honor the lives lost in the flooding.

After tragic floods in central Texas killed over a hundred people with many still missing, families, communities, churches, ...

A beloved teacher from the Houston metropolitan area. Destructive flooding triggered by unrelenting rain that rapidly overwhelmed the Guadalupe River has killed at least 100 people across ...

Odessa Police Officer Bailey Martin is among the latest fatalities identified from the Texas floods. Odessa police say Martin ...

Sparta High School is hiring former Detroit Piston Lindsey Hunter — a first-round draft pick who spent 17 years in the NBA — as the next head boys basketball coach. (July 10, 2025) ...

Eight-year-old girls at sleep-away camp, families crammed into recreational vehicles, local residents traveling to or from ...

KERR COUNTY, Texas — A devastating scene unfolded in the Hill Country on the Fourth of July as dozens of people, including ...

At least 100 people were killed in the devastating Texas floods, and the death toll is expected to rise as dozens are still ...

The Odessa Police Department Honor Guard, along with several other law enforcement agencies, will escort Bailey Martin from ...

The death toll in the central Texas flooding is up to 119 people, 95 of them in Kerr County, including 36 children.

A procession was held for Officer Bailey Martin in the city of Odessa. People lined the sidewalks to grieve and to honor the ...