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The community is grieving the loss of Fallen Officer Bailey Martin, who died in the Texas flooding disaster and was positively identified in Travis County.
The Odessa Police Department officer and the Ector County juvenile probation officer lost their lives in the devastating July 4 floods.
Odessa honors Bailey Martin and Jayda Floyd, who died in the Texas floods, by lighting up the Spire blue until July 31.
ODESSA, Texas — The City of Odessa invited the whole community to Memorial Gardens Park on Friday to honor the flood victims, and one Camp Mystic camper joined to pay tribute.
ODESSA, Texas — An Odessa police officer has been confirmed missing on Saturday amid the devastating floods in the Texas Hill Country.
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For more than a decade, a North Texas community’s Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints members got along fine with their neighbors. Then their plans for a new house of worship were unveiled.
At least 15 children were among those killed by flooding in Central Texas. Some two dozen girls from a camp on the Guadalupe River remained unaccounted for.
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Texas Flood Victims: What We Know A young police officer, a beloved teacher, and young and adult campers are among at least 111 people who have died in the flooding in Central Texas.
The 22-year-old woman was found several feet up in the Cypress tree, desperately clinging to the branches as the roaring floodwaters rushed below her.
The death toll in the central Texas flooding is up to 119 people, 95 of them in Kerr County, including 36 children.