PALMS PLACE POOL TURNS INTO A QUACKMIRE
June 8, 2012 - 7:32 pm
Models joined thousands of rubber ducks at the Palms Place Duck Party Thursday. (Photo courtesy Palms Place)
Authorities said the death toll was sure to rise as crews looked for the many people who were still missing.
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Families sifted through waterlogged debris Sunday and stepped inside empty cabins at Camp Mystic, an all-girls summer camp ripped apart by flash floods that washed homes off their foundations and killed at least 82 people in central Texas.
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In Kerr County, home to Camp Mystic and other youth camps in the Texas Hill Country, searchers have found the bodies of 68 people, including 28 children, Sheriff Larry Leitha said in the afternoon.
He achieved his goal of celebrating a historic — and divisive — legislative victory in time for the nation’s birthday.
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