Local First Responders Head To Texas To Help With Tropical Storm Harvey Rescues
New York City has sent 120 emergency personnel to Texas to assist in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced early Sunday.
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New York City has sent 120 emergency personnel to Texas to assist in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced early Sunday.
The most powerful hurricane in more than a decade continued to cause widespread destruction and drenching rain in southern Texas Sunday morning.
The fiercest hurricane to hit the U.S. in more than a decade made landfall Friday night about 30 miles northeast of Corpus Christi as a Category 4 storm with 130 mph winds. By midday Saturday was downgraded to a tropical storm.
The eye made landfall around 10 p.m. Friday about 30 mph east-northeast of Corpus Christi between Port Aransas and Port O'Connor, Texas, bringing with it 130 mph sustained winds and flooding rains.
A hurricane warning was in effect Thursday for much of the Texas coast, as Tropical Storm Harvey gained strength at the Gulf of Mexico.
20 other people in extremely critical or serious condition and eight more with lesser injuries including heat stroke and dehydration were found inside the truck in what police are calling a horrific human trafficking case.
A Texas police officer was trying to free two people from a crash involving a train and an SUV when the train suddenly started moving.
Roy Oliver turned himself in Friday night, just hours after the Dallas County Sheriff's Office issued a warrant for his arrest in the April 29 death of 15-year-old Jordan Edwards.
Several fatalities have been reported and dozens of people were taken to hospitals after a tornado hit a small city in East Texas, authorities said.
The Texas Department of Public Safety reports the lone bus survivor remains hospitalized in critical condition, and the pickup truck driver is in stable condition.
New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer has teamed up with a group of 40 global investors to fight against a "bathroom bill" under consideration in Texas.
Kayla's mother Christine Rainey, who is based out of Shaw Air Force Base, had been deployed in Qatar and the two hadn't seen each other for six months.
Authorities in Texas are searching for a Connecticut boy who's been missing since Thursday afternoon.
Though no specific locations are mentioned, it is believed New York, Texas and Virginia are all possible targets, CBS News reports.
The local sheriff said a student has died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot after shooting and injuring another student at West Texas high school.
The justices voted 5-3 Monday in favor of Texas clinics that protested the regulations as a thinly veiled attempt to make it harder for women to get an abortion in the nation's second-most populous state.
The largest health insurer in Texas wants to raise its rates on individual policies by an average of nearly 60 percent, a new sign that President Barack Obama's overhaul hasn't solved the problem of price spikes.
At least two people are dead and five others are missing after this week's torrential rains in Texas and Kansas, officials said Saturday, noting that though the threat of severe weather had lessened in Texas over the long holiday weekend, the focus is now on swollen rivers and waterways that are slowly rising and could flood homes.
A wave of intense thunderstorms is rumbling from Louisiana to Alabama and bringing intense hail and tornadoes to the south.
Paul Jesperson banked in a halfcourt shot at the buzzer to give 11th seeded Northern Iowa a 75-72 win over No. 6 seed Texas.
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Even though Patricia is weakening, the heavy flooding is expected to continue through the weekend.
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