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A beloved director of a Texas summer camp for girls. An Alabama elementary student away from home. These are a few of the ...

Flash floods in Texas have killed nearly 90 people, many of them children. Heavy rains fell quickly in the predawn hours ...

Former federal officials and outside experts have warned for months that President Donald Trump’s staffing cuts to the ...

Family members continue to search for a Mobile couple along with their daughter in law and granddaughter following this ...

Students will receive an email notifying when their scores are available. Students can access their scores online through the ...

Crews picked through mountains of debris and waded into swollen rivers Monday in the search for victims of catastrophic ...

Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said 75 bodies had been recovered from the area - with 48 of them adults and 27 children.