“You can’t replace memories”: Volunteers seek to return personal items after Texas floods
Volunteers are hoping to find the owners of stuffed animals, photographs and other keepsakes salvaged from the debris. Full Story
Jessica Shuran Yu will be a reporting fellow based in Austin. She earned a master’s in journalism from the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University, where she covered a variety of beats, including education, health care, and gender-based violence for Columbia News Service and her master's thesis. She earned her bachelor’s degree in English from Fordham University, where she freelanced sports stories for The Guardian US and reported for her campus newspaper, The Observer. Her reporting also has been published in Documented NY. Before studying journalism, Jessica was a competitive figure-skater for more than a decade. She speaks Mandarin.
Volunteers are hoping to find the owners of stuffed animals, photographs and other keepsakes salvaged from the debris. Full Story
Officials removed nearly 100 from the list of the missing Saturday, saying many had been found safe. There was no update on the death toll, which was most recently 135 statewide. Full Story
A Collin County judge’s reported decision could keep details of the divorce from spilling into Ken Paxton’s U.S. Senate race. Full Story
The four friends are among the hundreds of victims. The bodies of three of them have been found. Their families have searched for their loved ones since Friday. Full Story
About two dozen people were still missing. Many more people could still be unaccounted for, officials warned, noting that visitors to the area for the July 4th weekend make it difficult to assess an exact number. Full Story
After three sessions, Texas lawmakers passed a bill last month that defines consent and fixes what advocates called a loophole in Texas sexual assault laws. Full Story
A North Texas man charged with capital murder after slipping mifepristone into his girlfriend’s food signals another attempt to rein in abortion pills. Full Story
Demonstrations in McAllen, Midland, Odessa, Austin and elsewhere in Texas were largely peaceful, as some protests went well into the night. Full Story
Demonstrations against immigration raids began in Los Angeles last week and have spread across the country, including to Texas. More are planned this weekend. Full Story