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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 ...

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

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

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

At Memorial Gardens Park in Odessa, the whole community was invited to honor the victims of the devastating flood in Central ...

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

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

ODESSA, Texas — Author's Note: In a press release sent around 2:00 p.m., the City of Odessa said Ector County Juvenile Probation Officer Jayda Floyd died in the Texas flooding disaster. They ...

Family members confirmed that OPD officer Bailey Martin, his girlfriend Jayda Floyd died in the flood, but no official word was released by local authorities.