Texas flood toll tops 100 as camps mourn loss
Kerrville Texas authorities say more than 100 killed in July Fourth weekend floods. Camp Mystic losses total 27 campers and counselors. Ten campers and one counselor remain missing in Kerr County as search and rescue continue amid expected rain. Debris, bodies recovered in multiple counties include 28 children. victims span Dallas and Hill Country communities. Local officials warn death toll will rise with further storms.
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Salvation Army breaks ground on Wadsworth community center
In Wadsworth on Monday the Salvation Army began construction of a new community center. Ashley Smith, the local envoy, said the group offers education, financial aid and food, noting 139 years of presence and growth in the city. The project, started in 2018, faced pandemic delays after an earlier attempt about 25 years ago.
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Salvation Army
Ashley Smith
College St
Smith
Madisyn Woodring
Corps
Slices on the Square cake picnic aids Sawyer's Wish
Medina residents gathered at Medina Square on Sunday for a cake sharing event to benefit the nonprofit Sawyer's Wish. Organizer Callie Geringer encouraged participants to bring a cake or donate to provide colorful themed bed sheets for pediatric hospital patients. Sawyer's Wish, founded after Sawyer Riggenbach’s Make a Wish request, now serves 62 U.S. hospitals.
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Sawyer
San Francisco
Pediatric Hospital
Devel
Opment
Kayla Scalf
Sawyer Riggenbach
Burkitt
Akron Children’s Hospital
Scalf
Wadsworth names Dorland police chief in swearing ceremony
Dave Dorland was sworn in as Wadsworth police chief in City Hall with Dan Chafin, the former chief, now public safety director, introducing him. Dorland joins from a long career starting in 1994, including SWAT, detective bureau supervision, and eight years as lieutenant, credited with improving agency technology, grants, and the digital radio transition.
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Dan Chafin
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Dave
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Detention at Hinckley Bar Prompted FBI File Review
Medina County prosecutors will review FBI case files after off duty federal officers detained a man at Buzzard's Roost Tavern in Hinckley on April 26, 2024. Officers were seen on Brunswick body camera footage questioning participants while a DEA agent called the man a terrorist and claimed he was in the United States illegally. The man held at the scene had a valid Texas ID, Brunswick police said.
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Forrest Thompson
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Drug Enforcement Administration
ATF
United States
Brunswick
DEA
Texas
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