Storm victims anxious to repair and clean-up damage quickly found more help than they imagined with many offers coming uninvited.

A line of severe storms spawned at least six tornados, injured at least seven and caused damage in southeastern Texas Tuesday morning, including near the Houston metro area. In Van Vleck, Texas, recreational vehicles were flipped and structural damage was reported along a path approximately a mile long.

A Texas insurance agent is suing Yahoo over the fallout from two breaches of user data, alleging that his credit card data was stolen in the hacks. Last year, Yahoo announced that it had been the victim of two data breaches — one in 2014 that obtained details of at least 500 million accounts, and one the year before of more than a billion accounts.

The northbound lanes of Interstate 37 were shut down on the Southeast Side Wednesday after a major accident involving two 18 wheelers and up to 20 vehicles, according to authorities.

On February 5, Lady Gaga will headline the Super Bowl halftime show and will require a substantial event insurance policy for the performance. She intends to perform on top of the NRG Stadium cover dome in Houston.

Flames engulfed the Victoria Islamic Center, destroying the building in the predawn hours Saturday as congregation members watched from the curb, overcome with emotion.

This emerging market is rapidly growing strength throughout the United States with legalized cannabis. The marijuana insurance industry has exploded since certain forms and uses of medicinal cannabis received approval.

New government estimates project that for the second straight year, the United States will see the largest leap in motor vehicle fatalities in 50 years. In the first nine months of 2016, the Department of Transportation estimates that 27,875 people died in motor vehicle crashes.

Severe storms and at least two tornadoes left behind damage in several parts of North Texas. The powerful storm system unleashed strong winds, heavy rain and lightning after the sun went down Sunday evening.

A strong thunderstorm that produced a tornado and strong wind gusts downed power-lines, trees, and caused damage to homes in Coryell, Bosque, and Hill Counties Sunday.

A 150-pound pet tortoise is being blamed for a fire that caused heavy damage to the home of a neighbor on the city’s far Northwest Side.

The United States experienced 15 “weather and climate disasters” last year — each with losses exceeding US$1 billion — for a total of US$46 billion, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported on Monday.

A storm system moving across the South has blown out skylights in a Wal-Mart in Marksville, Louisiana, sending water and glass cascading onto shoppers.

The Development Corporation of Abilene voted Wednesday to move forward with insurance claims related to property damage from the 2014 hailstorm.

For the third time in eight years, water gushed into Virginia Hammond’s northwest Houston home. It was 2 a.m. on April 18. Over the next several hours, her two granddaughters — ages 12 and 15 — perched on tables, scared to put their feet in the dark gray floodwater rising below them.