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Martin and Floyd had been camping at the HTR TX Hill County Campground with Martin’s father, Bobby, and stepmother, Amanda, ...

The Texas Department of Juvenile Justice said a West Texas juvenile probation officer was among the victims of deadly Kerr ...

The body of Jayda Floyd was recovered Thursday in Kerr County, days after a devastating flood washed through the area on the ...

ECTOR COUNTY, Texas — Jayda Floyd, an Ector County juvenile probation officer and the girlfriend of fallen Odessa Police ...

The body of Odessa Police Department officer Bailey Martin has been recovered in Kerrville. Bailey, his girlfriend Jayda ...

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

Bobby and Amanda Martin had been married 13 years. Their eyes lit up when they saw each other, family members said.

Mollie Sylvester Schaffer had been married to her husband, Randy, for 57 years when the Houston couple traveled to an annual ...

The waters didn’t just rise in the Guadalupe over the holiday weekend, they roared, and Odessa Police officer Bailey Martin, ...

The Fourth of July turned deadly when the water rose in Central Texas. Multiple people died and others were missing.

The death toll in Kerr County, Texas climbed above 100 Friday night as recovery operations continued in the county on a day when President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump toured the damage ...