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The body of Jayda Floyd was recovered Thursday in Kerr County, days after a devastating flood washed through the area on the ...

ECTOR COUNTY, Texas — Jayda Floyd, an Ector County juvenile probation officer and the girlfriend of fallen Odessa Police ...

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

Martin and Floyd had been camping at the HTR TX Hill County Campground with Martin’s father, Bobby, and stepmother, Amanda, ...

The community is invited to a special gathering at Memorial Garden Park on Friday to honor the lives lost in the flooding.

A procession was held for Officer Bailey Martin in the city of Odessa. People lined the sidewalks to grieve and to honor the fallen officer.

ODESSA, Texas (KMID/KPEJ) — The body of Odessa Police Department officer Bailey Martin has been recovered in Kerrville, Texas.

The body of Odessa Police Department officer Bailey Martin has been recovered in Kerrville. Bailey, his girlfriend Jayda ...

These people are still missing or confirmed dead in Texas Hill Country floods  "I have had probably 20 or 25 of his friends, lifelong friends, reach out and tell me about how great of a friend ...

Bailey Martin, a police officer from Odessa, and his family vacationed on the Guadalupe River for the Fourth of July and got ...

The body of Odessa Police Department officer Bailey Martin has been recovered in Kerrville.  Bailey, his girlfriend Jayda Floyd, his father, Bobby Martin, and stepmother, Amanda Martin visited ...