Crucial positions at the local offices of the National Weather Service were unfilled as severe rainfall inundated parts of central Texas on Friday , prompting some experts to question whether staffing shortages made it harder for the forecasting agenc…

In the United States, people often get away with murder. The clearance rate was 58% in 2023, the latest year for which FBI data is available.

Hunt, Texas. (AP) — This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.

Disastrous flash floods from a raging central Texas river have killed at least 51 people, a total that may increase.

President Donald Trump and other Republicans have long criticized states that take weeks to count their ballots after Election Day.

Hours before a massive wall of floodwater barreled down a river in the heart of Texas Hill Country before sunrise on Friday, forecasters with the National Weather Service warned people that dangerous conditions were brewing.

HUNT, Texas (AP) — A powerful flash flood swept through Texas Hill Country, causing widespread devastation and leading to the deaths of multiple adults and children. Search and rescue teams using helicopters, boats and drones are working nonstop to fin…

A group of more than 10 people were pulled far from shore and scattered along a “dog-leg” rip current, which bends and abruptly changes direction.

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, Alabama, for a memorial ceremony. Attendees, many of them dressed in white, gathered near Africatown Bridge on…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Fourth of July is about all things American: parades, cookouts, cold beer and of course, fireworks. Those pyrotechnics remain at the center of Independence Day, a holiday 247 years in the making. Massive fireworks lit up the skyli…