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A request by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to set a new execution date for death row inmate Robert Roberson will be considered Wednesday in a state district courtroom in East Texas. The hearing is scheduled for 10 a.m. at the Anderson County Courthouse in Palestine, with Judge Austin Reeve Jackson presiding.
Follow for live updates in the Texas flooding as the death toll rises to 120, as rescue operations start to shift to recovery phase
A history museum event in Buffalo supporting local journalism was postponed after death threats against a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist.
Bill Nye claims climate change has worsened Texas flooding disasters, arguing that the U.S. government needs to take climate change more seriously.
Malaya Hammond, 17, was traveling to a Christian summer camp with her family at 5 a.m. Saturday when they drove off a bridge covered by flooding — sweeping their van into Marble Falls, according to a Facebook post from a family friend, Mikki Willis.
The psychological toll of recovering the bodies of flood victims in Texas is drawing increased attention as the death toll grows.
More than 100 people have died, including Pat Green’s brother, John Burgess, and his wife, Julia Anderson Burgess, a former Belton elementary teacher.
President Donald Trump has landed in Texas for a firsthand look at the devastation caused by catastrophic flooding that has killed at least 120 people, which the administration has characterized as a