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Alessandra Jerolleman, with Loyola University New Orleans, said buyouts make sense for some who can't be protected from floods.

The Odessa American is the leading source of local news, information, entertainment and sports for the Permian Basin.

The Houston area has one of the nations most robust property buyout programs for residents who live in low-lying areas. But flooding in Texas following back-to-back storms in April and

The Harris County Flood Control District wants to buy properties near the San Jacinto River to get people out of dangerously flood-prone areas.

The Houston area has one of the nations most robust property buyout programs for residents who live in low-lying areas. But flooding in Texas following back-to-back storms in April and

For decades the Harris County Flood Control District has been trying to clear out homes around the San Jacinto River by paying property owners to move and...

The Harris County Flood Control District has identified 2,400 properties it would like to buy out, but despite the flooding not everyone can or wants to leave.

A major North Carolina political donor and his associate have been convicted a second time of attempting to bribe the states insurance commissioner to secure preferential regulatory treatment for his

Gwen Knapp of the DNA Doe Project, a nonprofit that uses genealogy to identify unknown persons, said genealogists are "so excited that we can give Ronnie Kirk his name back and hope his family has some closure" decades after his bones were found in a Wisconsin chimney.

A federal jury on Wednesday convicted Greg Lindberg, who once controlled two life insurance companies, a reinsurance company and multiple other