By Laurean Love Staff Writer One Baylor alumna is closing orphanages in Ukraine by helping children find families among Christian couples interested in adoption. Baylor alumna Deneen Turner, who graduated with a bachelor of business administration in marketing and management, co-founded the nonprofit organization HopeHouse International, which assists Christian couples in adopting orphans within Ukraine. “I know this is what God has called me to do,” said Turner. “Therefore, there is great fulfillment in living within his calling for my life.” Turner currently serves as the organization’s president. Yuri Yakovlyev, a Ukrainian citizen, co-founded HopeHouse International with Turner and has…
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A federal court judge exceeded her authority by granting a reprieve to a Texas man sentenced to death in the slaying of a 12-year-old girl near Houston 12 years ago, the state attorney general’s office said Tuesday.
A nude University of South Alabama freshman had taken LSD and assaulted others before he chased the campus police officer who fatally shot him, authorities said Tuesday, though the student wasn’t armed and didn’t touch the officer.
I’ve lost loved ones, but I’ve never had to go through what the Ledet family is facing right now.
A plane crash over the weekend took the lives of Leonard Ledet, 60, his 62-year-old brother, Gregory Ledet, and his sons, Mason Ledet and Paul Ledet.
They were on their way to the Texas A&M game against Ole Miss.
Most of us have it — in the form of student aid, though we have yet to feel the effects. In fact, outstanding student loans in the U.S. equal a total of more than $1 trillion. Baylor is an expensive school – many of us are undoubtedly contributing to that sum.
The Tip-off Club will host a welcome back dinner for the women’s basketball team today in the Ferrell Center. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. and dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.
For those interested in becoming lifelong leaders and expanding educational opportunities, the Office of Career and Professional Development Events will host a Teach For America information session at 6 p.m. Wednesday in 109 Cashion Academic Center.
Waco composer Kurt Kaiser will perform at the Sweet Sounds fundraiser benefiting Meals & Wheels from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the Lee Lockwood Library and Museum at 2801 W. Waco Dr. For more information, visit mealsandwheelswaco.org.
Gil Collar was a guy everybody wanted to be around in high school, friends said: The girls liked his good looks, even his opponents on the wrestling mat became buddies, and adults knew him as courteous and kind.
The nude 18-year-old who was shot to death Saturday by a police officer on the University of South Alabama campus wasn’t the young man they knew. School officials said the slightly built freshman took a “fighting stance” and chased the officer, though Collar’s mother said she was told he never touched the officer. Acquaintances said he appeared to be intoxicated, because of alcohol or something else, as he took his clothes off, ran through the streets, screamed obscenities and claimed he was on a “spiritual quest” in the moments before he was killed.
Steven Lawayne Nelson, age 25, was convicted Monday in the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clinton Dobson, a 2008 Truett Seminary graduate and pastor of Nort Pointe Baptist Church in Arlington.
Nelson was found guilty of capital murder on Monday and could face either life in prison without parole or the death penalty.
As many as 13,000 people received steroid shots suspected in a national meningitis outbreak, health officials said Monday. But it’s not clear how many are in danger.
Officials don’t know how many of the shots may have been contaminated with meningitis-causing fungus. And the figure includes not only those who got them in the back for pain — who are most at risk — but also those who got the shots in other places, like knees and shoulders.
Two Waco crime scene technicians recently helped the FBI apprehend a serial bank robber suspect.
Crime scene technicians Joyce Marek and Laura Teamer assisted in apprehending Bradley Craig Kilmer, who has been charged with numerous bank robberies in Texas, Georgia, and South Carolina.
Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said the technicians worked together to find and identify a partial palm print on a napkin used as a demand note in a bank robbery.
A Dallas woman who super-glued her 2-year-old daughter’s hands to a wall also beat the girl so badly that she suffered bleeding on her brain, a doctor testified Monday during the mother’s sentencing hearing.
Elizabeth Escalona faces up to life in prison after pleading guilty in July to attacking her daughter, Jocelyn Cedillo, last September. Police say the 23-year-old mother attacked the toddler due to potty training problems.
Wednesday marked a monumental day in baseball history. Miguel Cabrera, the Detroit Tigers third baseman, accomplished what baseball players only dream about. He won baseball’s coveted Triple Crown. Cabrera became the first player in forty-five years to accomplish this feat, leading the American League with 44 home runs, a .330 batting average and 139 RBIs.
As a fifth-year senior, Baylor receiver Lanear Sampson has witnessed the transformation of Baylor football first-hand. From the 2008 season when the Bears went 4-8 in head coach Art Briles’ first season to winning 10 games and being Alamo Bowl champs, Sampson has helped usher in a new era of Baylor football.
There are no easy games in conference play.
The No. 25 women’s soccer team has played three conference games so far, and all of them have come down to the wire.
The most recent game was a 3-2 win over Texas Tech to move the team to 11-1-2 overall and 2-0-1 in conference play.
Baylor announced a new multiyear agreement with Fox Sports to televise Baylor athletic events on Fox Sports Network’s platforms, beginning the 2013-2014 school year. The agreement will allow Fox Sports to televise one Baylor football game, all available men’s basketball games and a package of women’s basketball games annually.
After taking a shot to his helmet while scrambling to try to avoid a sack, Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III stayed face-down for a few moments Sunday, then eventually staggered to his feet with what doctors determined was a concussion.
Army veteran Don Matyja was getting by all right on the streets of this city tucked in Southern California suburbia until he got ticketed for smoking in the park.
Matyja, who has been homeless since he was evicted nearly two years ago, had trouble paying the fine and getting to court — and now a $25 penalty has ballooned to $600.
Two scientists from different generations won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for the groundbreaking discovery that cells in the body can be reprogrammed into completely different kinds, work that reflects the mechanism behind cloning and offers an alternative to using embryonic stem cells.
Sometimes the stress of school and life can be more than students can bear.
The third annual More Than We Can Bear forum will be held at 6:30 p.m. today in D110 Baylor Sciences Building. It is free and open to the public.
Baylor offers more than 120 majors within its eight undergraduate colleges, ranging from aviation sciences to interior design.
With all of these options, it’s easy for students to get overwhelmed.
Several Baylor students will have their clothes cut off at 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
The event, in Jones Theatre in the Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center, will recreate Yoko Ono’s iconic performance entitled “Cut Piece.” Interviews, audience reactions and a reception will follow.
Ono, famous for her marriage to John Lennon of The Beatles and for her social activism, first performed the piece in Japan in 1964. Ono remained still and silent while audience members, who were hesitant at first, came up and cut increasingly larger pieces of her clothing off.
Wednesday’s Baylor Percussion Group concert will pay tribute to the life and work of American composer John Cage.
Todd Meehan, assistant professor of percussion at Baylor, said he’s looking forward to the concert.
Let me just say that love and agreeing are two totally different aspects of life. I may disagree with my family on occasion, but I don’t love them any less.
Some people would argue that because I disagree with someone that means I don’t support that person—some would go so far as to say I’ve expressed dislike of the person because of my disagreement.
A friend of mine posted a Facebook status about halfway through the presidential debate on Wednesday saying, “This debate is a waste of time.”
She’s wrong.
With more than the usual amount of parking being eliminated this year by construction, remodeling and a giant freshman class, we would be remiss if we neglected this ongoing rant in this week’s editorial schedule. In fact, on-campus parking problems have become a favorite subject of ours in board meetings, simply because the lack of improvement we have seen on this issue has brought the level of discontented grumblings among the student body up to full fledged battle royals in the parking garages — day and night.
