News in brief

By The Associated Press

Child dies in Texas after being swept away in floodwaters

HOUSTON | Storms in Texas brought additional rain Sunday to the already saturated Houston area where hundreds of people have been rescued from flooded homes and roads, while to the north in the Fort Worth area, a child died after being swept away when the car he was traveling in got stuck in floodwaters.

Over the last week, areas near Lake Livingston, located northeast of Houston, have gotten upwards of 23 inches of rain, National Weather Service meteorologist Jimmy Fowler said on Sunday afternoon. Meanwhile, he said, areas in northeastern Harris County, the nation’s third-largest county that includes Houston, had a range of 6 inches to almost 17 inches of rain in that same period.

Scattered showers in the Houston area on Sunday brought light to moderate rainfall, he said.

Thieves apparently killed Australians and American to steal truck

MEXICO CITY | Mexican authorities say thieves apparently killed two Australians and an American on a surfing trip in Baja California to steal their truck.

State prosecutors released grisly details of the slaying, but have not yet officially confirmed the identification of the bodies. They said family members of the victims are viewing the bodies to see if they can be identified by sight. The corpses were decomposing after the thieves dumped them into a remote, 50-foot deep well. If relatives can’t identify them, further tests will be conducted.

The three men went missing last weekend during a camping and surfing trip.

The well also contained a fourth cadaver that had been there much longer.

Driver dies after crashing into security barrier around White House complex

WASHINGTON | Police in the nation’s capital say a driver has died after a vehicle crashed into an outer perimeter gate of the White House complex. The police say the incident late Saturday night is being investigated as a traffic crash.

President Joe Biden was spending the weekend in Delaware, and the Secret Service says there was no threat to the White House.

The Secret Service says the driver was found dead in the vehicle following the crash shortly before 10:30 p.m. Police say the vehicle crashed into a security barrier at the intersection of 15th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW and that the matter is being investigated as a traffic crash.

—From AP reports