Three killed after being swept away in severe flooding
(CNN) -- The body of a missing teenager was found Sunday, a day after he was reported missing in floodwaters that struck south Texas, bringing the death toll from the severe weather to three.Two women died Saturday in San Antonio, including one who was swept away after rescue workers nearly reached her.The body of 18-year-old Avron Adams was found Sunday near Cibolo Creek, where he was last seen with friends, said David Harris, an official with the city of Schertz, near San Antonio.At one point Saturday, a storm and subsequent flash floods had knocked out power to about 12,000 customers and spurred the closure of dozens of streets in San Antonio and the surrounding county, authorities said.The worst of the rainfall is over, according to CNN's weather center, as cloudbursts are disappearing from the area's weather forecast.River levels are expected to make a quick retreat, according to the National Weather Service.Scores of people had to be evacuated due to floods and other issues, and San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood noted there had been about 250 water-related calls in the first 15 hours of Saturday.The first confirmed fatality -- a woman around age 30 -- was reported around 7:30 a.m., and her body was found about three hours later, San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said.Some time later, an older female driver went into water that was 4 feet above flood markers.
Texas teenager bags record-sized alligator
(CNN) -- Braxton Bielski didn't have a 5-pound bass on his mind when he recently took his cane pole to a reservoir in south Texas.Instead, he and his father were looking to bag a big alligator.
Officials: Multiple fatalities, 100 injuries in severe Texas storm
(CNN) -- Several people were killed and more than 100 were injured Wednesday night when a possible tornado cut a wide swath through north Texas, officials said.Kathy Jividen, a spokeswoman for the Hood County sheriff's office, said there were "multiple fatalities" in the wake of the storm that touched down in Granbury.Matt Zavadsky, spokesman for MedStar Mobile Healthcare, said there were reports of at least 100 people being injured.
Records: Texas plant hadn't told feds about explosive fertilizer
(CNN) -- The fertilizer plant that blew up in Texas last week warned state and local officials but not federal agencies that it had 270 tons of highly volatile ammonium nitrate on site, according to regulatory records.The April 17 fire and explosion at West Fertilizer Co.
Officials: Texas blast left nearly 100-foot-wide crater
WEST, Texas (CNN) -- Walls warped or blown off entirely, even ones made of brick.
West, Texas copes after lives lost in plant explosion
WEST, Texas (CNN) -- Since they were little boys growing up West, Texas, brothers Doug and Robert Snokhous did everything together.
Texas man witnesses Boston bombings, Texas blast
AUSTIN, TX (WITI) -- A Texas runner who was in Boston for the marathon narrowly avoided injury in the bombings on Monday, April 15th.
Report: As many as 35 killed in Texas plant explosion
(CNN) -- Some 35 people -- including 10 first responders -- died in an massive explosion Wednesday night at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, Mayor Tommy Muska said, according to USA Today.The number included five volunteer fire fighters, four emergency responders and an off-duty fire fighter from Dallas who lived in West, the mayor told the newspaper.Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings identified the off-duty fire fighter as Kenny Harris, a captain in his city's fire department.
Explosion hits fertilizer plant north of Waco, Texas
(CNN) -- An explosion ripped through a fertilizer plant Wednesday night in the town of West, Texas, sending a massive fireball into the sky and causing dozens of injuries, officials said.A hospital in nearby Waco, Texas, has been told to anticipate 100 injured people coming in from the fertilizer plant area, an official at the medical facility said.Glenn Robinson, CEO of Hillcrest Hospital, said a field triage station was being set up on a football field near the plant some 18 miles north of Waco after the Wednesday night explosion."We have had a steady flow of patients coming in by ambulance as well as by private vehicles," Robinson told CNN's Anderson Cooper.
Wife of former official charged with murder in Texas DA killing
(CNN) -- The wife of former justice of the peace Eric Williams is being held on a capital murder charge in connection with the killings of a Kaufman County District Attorney, his wife, and a top prosecutor, the Dallas Morning News reported Wednesday.CNN could not immediately confirm the report.
Driver in Texas bus crash was involved in fatal 1998 accident
(CNN) -- The driver in Thursday's bus crash in Texas was investigated but not indicted in a fatal accident 15 years ago, according to court documents.Two people were killed and dozens rushed to hospitals after a charter bus bound for Oklahoma overturned on a Dallas-area turnpike Thursday morning.The driver is 65-year-old Loyd Rieve, the Texas Department of Public Safety said.
Two dead, dozens sent to hospitals after Dallas-area bus crash
(CNN) -- Two people were dead and dozens of others were taken to hospitals after a charter bus bound for Oklahoma casinos overturned on a Dallas-area turnpike Thursday morning, officials said.At least 44 people were transported to hospitals after the crash on President George Bush Turnpike in Irving, Texas, Department of Public Safety Sgt.
Who's killing Texas prosecutors? Chilling mystery leaves county on edge
KAUFMAN, Texas (CNN) -- Kaufman County is on edge.
Texas DA killed two months after his deputy is gunned down
(CNN) -- "We are taking precautions to protect elected officials in the county," Kaufman County, Texas, Sheriff David Byrnes said at a news conference Sunday after District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, were found dead Saturday in their home.Two months ago, a Texas district attorney vowed to put away the "scum" who had killed one of his top deputies.Now, the district attorney and his wife are dead.
Prosecutor gunned down outside Texas courthouse
(CNN) -- A Texas district attorney vowed Thursday to catch the "scum" who gunned down one of his assistant prosecutors outside his office near Dallas on Thursday morning.
Three wounded in shooting at Lone Star College in Houston
(CNN) -- Students ducked under desks and ran for cover during a shooting at a community college in Texas on Tuesday.
No charges in Midland, Texas, train wreck that killed 4 veterans
(CNN) -- The driver of a parade float involved in a deadly crash with a train in Midland, Texas, will not face charges, a city official said Friday.
Security guard opens fire, kills replacement at Houston shopping center
HOUSTON, Texas (CNN) -- Texas deputies say a security guard who recently lost his job opened fire and killed his replacement Saturday at a shopping center in Houston.
Fog suspected in 100-vehicle Texas wrecks
(CNN) -- At least two people were killed and as many as 120 injured in Thanksgiving pileups involving an estimated 100 cars on a foggy stretch of highway in southeast Texas, authorities said.
Fog suspected in 100-vehicle Texas wrecks that claim at least two lives
(CNN) -- At least two people were killed and as many as 120 injured in Thanksgiving pileups involving an estimated 100 cars on a foggy stretch of highway in southeast Texas, authorities said.