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A tourist who went missing after she failed to return to her cruise ship last week has been found dead.Marites Buenafe, 62, of Kentucky, was visiting Alaska's capital city when she did not return from a hike.The Alaska Department of Public Safety said her body was found by an Alaska Army National Guard helicopter crew late Thursday below the ridge line of Gold Ridge.Buenafe is listed as a doctor at […]

Heavy rains in central North Carolina flooded roads and towns, prompting dozens of water rescues as residents were forced to flee their homes, officials said Monday.The Chapel Hill Fire Department and neighboring agencies completed more than 50 water rescues since Sunday evening, the town said Monday morning.Many of the water rescues in Chapel Hill happened where floodwaters entered or threatened to enter apartment homes and condos, officials said. Other water […]

Idaho student killer Bryan Kohberger's former friends from Pennsylvania and a classmate at Washington State University are baffled that the man they knew to be quiet and awkward pleaded guilty in the mass murder case that rocked the nation.Kohberger, a former WSU criminology Ph.D. student, pleaded guilty on July 2 to killing four University of Idaho students on Nov. 13, 2022, as part of a deal with prosecutors to escape […]

The short time it took the Llano River to overflow and flood central Texas on July 4 is illustrated in a sped up timelapse video, allowing viewers to see just how dramatically and quickly the water level rose.Unusually heavy rain decimated the state’s Hill Country region, triggering catastrophic flash floods that left at least 80 people dead over the weekend. Footage shows a section of the river situated near Kingsland, […]

JONESTOWN, TEXAS - A Texas man described what it has been like witnessing the worst flooding to hit his area since he started living there and vowed to keep his business running."We've been here 20 years and nobody's seen anything like this, not even close," David Abboud, an owner of a paintball facility and resident of Jonestown, Texas, tells Fox News Digital. Abboud shared details of what it has been like […]

A former appointee to a Houston city board recently came under fire for claiming that a Texas summer camp devastated by flooding was "White-only, conservative [and] Christian."Sade Perkins, a former member of the Houston Food Insecurity Board, made the claims about Camp Mystic in Hunt, Texas, in a TikTok video this weekend.The office of Houston Mayor John Whitmire confirmed to Fox News Digital that Perkins posted the video. She was […]

Police in the Turks and Caicos Islands have discovered the body of a man while searching for a New York man who went missing while vacationing in the Caribbean late last month.The Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force (RTCIPF) said in a press release that it had discovered the body of a deceased man in a "state of decomposition" just after 9 a.m. on Saturday, in the Grace Bay […]

The camp director and co-owner of Camp Mystic in Hunt, Texas, died in the catastrophic flooding as he reportedly raced to save the lives of his young campers.Dick Eastland, who purchased the camp in 1974, died after the wall of water crashed through the Christian summer camp, which is located along the banks of the Guadalupe River, Texas Public Radio reported. The report cited a Facebook post from Eastland’s nephew, though […]

Independence Day spirits were not dampened after a lightning strike prematurely set off the city of Sanford, Florida's fireworks display.On Friday afternoon, a large storm moved over central Florida and lightning struck the marina area "where all of the fireworks for the event were stored in preparation for the event," Bianca Gillett, Sanford's Strategic Communications Manager, said in a Facebook Live.As a result, a "chain of events occurred," which lit […]