Texans warned to prepare for rising rivers as rain and thunderstorms move across the state. Emergency officials monitor for flooding.

Widespread storms rolled through North Texas late Wednesday causing localized flooding across parts of the region. Isolated showers and a few thunderstorms are forecast Thursday, though rainfall coverage is expected to be lower than Wednesday.

Repeated rounds of heavy rain and thunderstorms will bring a growing risk of flash flooding from Texas to the Ohio Valley, with some rivers rising to moderate flood stage into next week.

A Texas judge on Wednesday declined to fully close Camp Mystic — the tragic epicenter of the July 4 floods that inundated the Texas Hill Country last year — but prevented the part of the camp where the deadly flooding occurred from being altered.

A Texas judge has declined to shut down Camp Mystic, where 25 girls and two counselors were killed in catastrophic floods last year.

A judge has declined to close Camp Mystic after the family of one of the 27 campers and staffers killed in last summer's deadly Hill Country flooding sued to that end earlier this year.

A new lawsuit has been filed in connection with the deaths at Camp Mystic during the devastating flooding that hit Central Texas last July.

After flooding forced a shutdown, the Texas Energy Museum in Beaumont reopens with updated exhibits and a commitment to modernizing its historic collection.