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Death toll in central Texas flash floods rises to 79 as sheriff says 10 campers remain missing
July 06, 2025 - 4:57 PM

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 79 people in central Texas.
Flash floods like the one that swept through Texas are the nation's top storm-related killer
July 06, 2025 - 4:46 PM

The monstrous, swift-moving flood that swept through the Hill Country of Texas on Friday, killing at least 79 people and leaving many more missing, was a flash flood, the nation's top storm-related killer. Among those missing are girls attending a summer camp.
A look at some of the deadliest floods in the US in the last 25 years
July 06, 2025 - 4:46 PM

Flooding has caused an average of more than 125 deaths per year in the United States over the past few decades, according to the National Weather Service, and flash floods are the nation’s top storm-related killer.
A young Alabama student, a grandparent and a camp director among those killed in Texas floods
July 06, 2025 - 4:28 PM

A small-town grandmother who disappeared on her way to work. A beloved director of Texas summer camp for girls. An Alabama elementary student away from home. These are a few of the dozens of victims lost in devastating flooding in Texas.
The places where deadly Texas floodwaters have killed at least 79 people
July 06, 2025 - 4:17 PM

Search teams are using helicopters, boats and drones to look for victims in flash floods that have torn across central Texas since the at the start of the July Fourth weekend. At least 79 people have died and many more are still missing, including at least 10 girls

What to know about the flash floods in Texas that killed at least 79 people
July 06, 2025 - 4:13 PM

KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — Flash floods in Texas killed dozens and left an unknown number of July Fourth visitors and campers missing, including many girls attending Camp Mystic. The devastation along the Guadalupe River, outside of San Antonio, has drawn a massive search effort as

King Charles III leads 20th-anniversary commemoration of 7/7 London bombings
July 06, 2025 - 4:03 PM

LONDON (AP) — King Charles III led commemorations Monday on the 20th anniversary of the 2005 London transit bombings, the deadliest attack on the British capital since World War II.
Quick action by one Texas summer camp leads to timely evacuations ahead of deadly flood
July 06, 2025 - 3:52 PM

It was about 1 a.m. on the Fourth of July when the facilities manager at a central Texas summer camp saw water from the Guadalupe River steadily rising amid a deluge of rain.
Russia and Ukraine trade drone strikes as Kyiv signs deals to boost drone production
July 06, 2025 - 3:49 PM

Russia and Ukraine struck each other with hundreds of drones on Sunday, throwing Russian air travel in disarray, shortly after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced deals with Western partners that would allow Kyiv to scale up drone production.
AP News in Brief at 6:04 p.m. EDT
July 06, 2025 - 3:04 PM

Death toll in central Texas flash floods rises to 78 as sheriff says 10 campers remain missing
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Death toll in central Texas flash floods rises to 79 as sheriff says 10 campers remain missing

Flash floods like the one that swept through Texas are the nation's top storm-related killer

A look at some of the deadliest floods in the US in the last 25 years

A young Alabama student, a grandparent and a camp director among those killed in Texas floods

The places where deadly Texas floodwaters have killed at least 79 people

What to know about the flash floods in Texas that killed at least 79 people

King Charles III leads 20th-anniversary commemoration of 7/7 London bombings

Quick action by one Texas summer camp leads to timely evacuations ahead of deadly flood

Russia and Ukraine trade drone strikes as Kyiv signs deals to boost drone production

AP News in Brief at 6:04 p.m. EDT

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