Sixteen-year-old Eli Heacock was alone in his Kentucky bedroom when the photo appeared on his phone. It was an image of him, and he was naked. Send $3,000, the accompanying message said, or the nude ...

The first drops of rain had yet to fall when Ainslie Bashara, a counselor at Camp Mystic, noticed that one of the younger girls had begun to tear up. They were walking back to their cabin, Giggle Box, ...

A retired nurse, her son and a family friend were lucky to survive last week’s flash floods in Texas that killed more than 100 people.

What looked like a simple, one-story beige cabin near the banks of the Guadalupe River held the stories of generations of young girls marking a rite of passage.