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Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy , and give us feedback . Heart O’ the Hills Camp for Girls, a historic summer camp in the Hill ...

A new chapter is in store for an historic Texas girls' camp severely damaged in this summer's deadly Fourth of July flood in Kerr County. Ragsdale, along with her family members, had been a co-owner ...

Los Angeles Police Department announced the arrest of two suspects in Mission Hills and the recovery of $50,000 worth of copper wire. The arrests comes the very same day the Los Angeles City Council ...

Bad news in the Baldwin household. Ireland Baldwin got candid on her famous parents, dad Alec Baldwin and mom Kim Basinger, days before her 30th birthday. Ireland took to Substack to write a blog ...

On Sunday at 5:50 a.m. a flood advisory was issued by the National Weather Service in effect until 9 a.m. for Baldwin County. The weather service states, "Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is ...

Tragedy struck in Eligbolo, Obio Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, as two teenage brothers, Miracle Peter, 17, and Emma Peter, 16, were swept away by floodwaters while attempting to rescue ...

The next morning, rescuers made contact with the hikers via emergency text and learned they were all right but “cold and wet,” deputies said. Getty Images/iStockphoto Two stranded hikers spent a “cold ...

Responding from a tough loss can go any number of ways for a talented football team, a description that certainly fits Wayne Hills. It was obvious pretty quickly that the Patriots were out to make a ...

Dennis M. Bender died last week as the result of a medical emergency, Ponca Hills Volunteer Fire Chief Joel Sacks said, while working in support of crews battling a large brush fire east of Fort ...

Los Angeles police are investigating a road rage incident near Baldwin Hills, where a man pulled another driver out of a car and beat him. The victim, Adam Berry, said he was driving on La Cienega ...