"God be with us. This is bad." That's what Texas bus drivers were saying to each other as they navigated destroyed roads to ...

So even though head coach Steve Sarkisian rightfully called Taaffe’s ascension from walk on to second-team All-American “probably the coolest story on our team right now,” the Austin Westlake product ...

About 1,000 miles away, Texas Longhorns safety Michael Taaffe stood before reporters, wearing a tie with the initials of the 28 victims from Camp Mystic.

Taaffe called the counselors at Camp Mystic “heroes” and wore a tie to honor them and the young girls who died during the ...

California recognized five Caltrans employees with the Governor’s State Employee Medal of Valor, the highest honor bestowed to public servants who performed extraordinary acts of heroism above and ...

Young campers and a dad saving his family were among the dozens killed in the historic flash floods that tore through central Texas over the holiday weekend.

About the Gold Star This honor is awarded for an extraordinary act of heroism by a state employee extending far above and beyond the normal call of duty or service, performed at great risk to his or ...

Mollie Sylvester Schaffer had been married to her husband, Randy, for 57 years when the Houston couple traveled to an annual ...

A few specific sounds punctuate summer evenings in rural Iowa. A chorus of spring peepers, for example, or the shrill conk-la ...

President Donald Trump toured the devastation from catastrophic flooding in Texas and lauded local officials amid mounting ...

Hero Texas camp director Richard “Dick” Eastland battled floods for decades and even saw his pregnant wife once airlifted off the grounds to a hospital because of a deluge.