For many families, the most serious warnings about the deadly and raging torrent in Texas Hill Country on July 4 came too late. Many were asleep. Others, in a region long accustomed to extreme weather,

State and local officials said they did their best to coordinate evacuations and rescues, but better cellphone service might help in future floods.

A large percentage of people still unaccounted for were probably visiting the area, Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly said.

In a week dominated by talk of the upcoming college football season, Texas safety Michael Taaffe brought something different to SEC Media Days in Atlanta: perspective. Wearing a burnt orange tie stitched with the initials of the 27 victims at Camp Mystic,

Camille’s husband, Eddie Santana Jr. was found alive and discharged from a hospital on July 6, according to a previous post from his brother Michael Santana. As of July 15, the flood is reported to have killed over 120 people, about a third of them children, according to USA Today.

Peterson Regional Medical Center in Kerrville will receive $1.5 million, and the Llano Regional Hospital will receive $396,000, according to state officials.

Texas has sought to fine a New York-based doctor who prescribed mifepristone to a Dallas woman, in a case likely headed to the Supreme Court.

In what he called an effort to restore integrity to the office, state Sen. Nathan Johnson on Tuesday launched a campaign to replace Ken Paxton as Texas attorney general. “It is significant that Ken Paxton has abused the office,