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

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

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

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.

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

Family members have identified more than a dozen people who are presumed missing after severe flooding in the Texas Hill ...

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

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 ...

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