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The death toll from catastrophic flooding in Texas over the July Fourth weekend has surpassed 100 as the massive search ...

The Texas Game Wardens of the state’s Parks and Wildlife Department have searched 26 miles of river since the start of the crisis and have conducted 444 rescues, said Lt. Colonel Ben Baker. The agency ...

Despite officials urging civilians to stay away, volunteers have joined the search for missing people and the cleanup on the ...

KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — Hope of finding survivors of the catastrophic flooding in Texas dimmed Tuesday, a day after the death toll surpassed 100, and crews kept up the search for people missing in the ...

Bud Bolton told FOX Weather Correspondent Robert Ray he lost his home to the Central Texas flooding on July 4. He describes trying to help people being swept away on the Guadalupe River and his son ...