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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, ...
Odessa Police Officer Bailey Martin is among the latest fatalities identified from the Texas floods. Odessa police say Martin ...
KERR COUNTY, Texas — A devastating scene unfolded in the Hill Country on the Fourth of July as dozens of people, including ...
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 ...
The flash flooding deluged summer camps in Kerr County, dotted along the Guadalupe River, and also left families in Burnet, ...
Young campers and a dad saving his family were among the dozens killed in the historic flash floods that tore through central ...
Hopes of locating some of the 170-plus missing individuals following the devastating floods along the Guadalupe River in ...
The couple is survived by three children, Ethan, Austin and Addison, two of whom were rescued from the flooding. Linnie attended Casis Elementary in Austin. The 8-year-old loved dance and gymnastics, ...