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Mountain Brook girl killed in Texas flash flood
MOUNTAIN BROOK, Ala. (WIAT) — Mountain Brook Mayor Stewart Welch confirmed a girl who was a student at Cherokee Bend Elementary School died in a flash flood in Texas on Friday. Welch posted on Facebook 8-year-old Sarah Marsh was as a camper at...

AP News: A 2nd grader from Camp Mystic is among the latest victims of the horrific Texas floods
Three newly minted second graders, including 8-year-old twin sisters from Dallas. A camp director who served as a surrogate father to the girls under his care. These are a few of the scores of victims lost in devastating flash floods in central...

Camp Mystic 'grieving the loss' of 27 campers and counselors after Texas floods
KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — Camp Mystic says it is "grieving the loss" of 27 campers and counselors as the search continued Monday for victims of catastrophic Texas flooding over the Fourth of July holiday weekend. The statement adds another layer of...
Death toll from catastrophic flooding in Texas surpasses 100
KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — The death toll from catastrophic flooding in Texas over the July Fourth weekend has surpassed 100 as the massive search continues for missing people. The number of deaths reached 104 on Monday. In hard-hit Kerr County, home...

7 Things: Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ has big, beautiful impact on Alabama; Mountain Brook girl dies in Texas flood; Musk starts America Party; and more …
7. Protests in Mexico City against American-driven “gentrification” turned violent, with demonstrators vandalizing businesses and harassing tourists. 6. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall emphasized the state’s leadership in challenging...

Death toll in central Texas flash floods rises to 82
Officials on Sunday search on the grounds of Camp Mystic along the banks of the Guadalupe River after a flash flood swept through the area early Friday in Hunt, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — Families sifted through...

The Weather Authority: Classic summer weather pattern ahead for Alabama
From James Spann and the ABC 33/40 Weather Blog: RADAR CHECK: We have random, isolated showers and thunderstorms across Alabama this afternoon that are moving little. Otherwise we have a partly to mostly sunny sky with temperatures in the low to...

Death toll in central Texas flash floods tops 80 as sheriff says 10 campers remain missing
KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — Families sifted through waterlogged debris Sunday and stepped inside empty cabins at Camp Mystic, an all-girls summer camp ripped apart by flash floods that washed homes off their foundations and killed at least 82 people...

Death toll in Texas flash floods rises
KERRVILLE, Texas — Families sifted through waterlogged debris Sunday and stepped inside empty cabins at Camp Mystic, an all-girls summer camp ripped apart by flash floods that washed homes off their foundations and killed at least 78 people in...

Camp Mystic, hit by deadly floods, was summer girls' camp for thousands of Christian families in the South
Camp Mystic in Hunt, Texas, was hit by the second-worst flood ever on Texas' Guadalupe River on July 4. At the time of this report, 82 people are dead. Eleven girl campers and one counselor remain missing from Camp Mystic. One of the campers who...

Texas at risk of more flooding as death toll surpasses 80 people
With more rain on the way, the risk of life-threatening flooding was still high in central Texas on Monday even as crews search urgently for the missing following a holiday weekend deluge that killed at least 82 people, including children at...

Tragic faces of girls confirmed dead or still missing after Texas floods devastate Camp Mystic
Families across the state are grieving after the Guadalupe River rose to 26 feet (7.9 meters) within about 45 minutes during the night A tragic list makes up the victims at Camp Mystic in Texas after floodwater surged through the riverside...

More than 100 dead in Texas floods, with dozens still missing
1/24 The death toll from catastrophic flooding in Texas over the July Fourth weekend surpassed 100 on Monday as search-and-rescue teams continued to wade into swollen rivers and use heavy equipment to untangle trees as part of the massive search...

Alabama Law Enforcement Agency competing to win national cruiser contest
Alabama Law Enforcement Agency competing to win national cruiser contest YOUR PLANS. YEAH. JOINING US NOW IS FIRST WARNING CHIEF METEOROLOGIST JASON SIMPSON AND TAYLOR SARALLO. SO GUYS, WHAT ARE WE TRACKING TONIGHT? AND OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS?...

The number of dead in Texas flooding passes 100
Dozens of people remain missing after Friday and Saturday's devastating floods. TEXAS, USA — A July Fourth weekend deluge in Texas caused catastrophic flash flooding that has killed at least 102 people. Camp Mystic in Hunt said Monday morning that...

Everything we know about Texas flooding victims: Girl ‘living her best life’ at camp and man who saved his family
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Species of ‘killer bees’ spotted near Alabama-Georgia border
ATLANTA — A hybrid bee spawned from a combination of African and European honeybees have been sighted close to Georgia. Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture Tyler Harper told Channel 2’s Linda Stouffer that the sighting was “obviously a concern,”...

Death toll in central Texas flash floods rises to 80 as sheriff says 10 campers remain missing
Families sifted through waterlogged debris Sunday and stepped inside empty cabins at Camp Mystic, an all-girls summer camp ripped apart by flash floods that washed homes off their foundations and killed at least 80 people in central Texas....

Death toll from catastrophic flooding in Texas over the July Fourth weekend surpasses 100
With additional rain on the way, more flooding still threatened in saturated parts of central Texas. Authorities said the death toll was sure to rise. KERRVILLE, Texas — The death toll from catastrophic flooding in Texas over the July Fourth...

Texas continues desperate search for missing, more rain on the way as flood’s death toll tops 80
By JIM VERTUNO and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — With more rain on the way, the risk of life-threatening flooding was still high in central Texas on Monday even as crews search urgently for the missing following a holiday...