For anyone wanting “two tickets to paradise,” this weekend, Indian Spring Park might just be the place, as Eddie Money will be headlining the Brazos Nights concert from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. today at the downtown venue. Opening for Money will be historic Waco musician Classie Ballou Sr. The concert is free and open to the public.
Baylor will host its seventh annual Heart of Texas Community Tailgate on Saturday.
The event is free and open to the Waco community.
Honors students will present their theses as part of a 21-year-old tradition known as Honors Week. The week long event will take place Monday through Friday.
The students will present the results of their theses that they have been working on for at least one to two years. Seniors in the program are required to present their thesis material to an audience of faculty and students during Honors Week.
When a gunman killed 26 children and staff at a Connecticut grade school, proposals to let teachers carry hidden guns into the classroom soon proliferated in many Republican-led states such as Texas.
We’ve discussed concealed carry on college campuses extensively within these pages, covering several petitions from students and faculty who have offered support or a lack of support for the idea.
We haven’t yet talked about arming elementary school teachers.
Concealed carry laws: They’re all over the news.
Congress can’t come to consensus on the issue. Here’s the answer: Texas should secede. Then we will be free to make our own laws. It’s the only logical solution.
I am writing in response to your April 11 editorial “Hypocrisy of PETA Gets Our Goat.” We’re grateful for the opportunity that this editorial—despite its deceptive intent—gives us to discuss the animal-overpopulation crisis. We’re on the front lines in the battle to help unwanted dogs and cats, and we need your readers’ help.
I fully agree with Coach Kim Mulkey’s assessment of the Louisville “assault” game on March 31. I said they literally “clawed” their way to the championship game, where they got what they deserved: a 33-point loss.
Students will kick it to cancer in the Ninth Annual Fiota Cup.
The all women’s soccer tournament will take place from 3:30 p.m. to sunset today and from 2:30 p.m. to sunset Sunday at Edge Field.
Art on Elm, an annual event that features local artists, aims to bring people in the Waco community together to promote local Waco artists and businesses. The event will be held Saturday by Neighbor Works Waco. The event will display local artists’ work and feature live music from local musicians.
March of Dimes will step up fundraising this weekend to help support research and programs dedicated to infant health.
The nonprofit is hosting a walking event from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday behind the Mayborn Museum at the Governor Bill and Vara Daniel Historic Village. The actual walk does not start until 9 a.m., according to Becky Goss-Shepherd, March of Dimes division director in Waco, Temple and Killeen.
At this year’s annual Texas Intercollegiate Press Association convention on April 4-6 in Fort Worth, The Baylor Lariat, the Round Up yearbook, Focus magazine and the Lariat Online won 70 awards in dozens of categories.
The state Senate on Thursday unanimously approved the Michael Morton Act, a measure named in honor of a Texan who spent nearly 25 years in prison for a murder he did not commit and designed to prevent future wrongful convictions.
A man accused of stabbing more than a dozen people at a Houston-area college told investigators that he had fantasized about cannibalism and necrophilia and about cutting off people’s faces and wearing them as masks, according to a court document made public on Thursday.
A week before Baylor’s Diadeloso celebration, no headliner has been announced.
Diadeloso chair Pauline Minnaar said the delay was a publicity strategy to draw attention to the other events. However, a tweet from the band may have ruined the surprise.
The Baylor Alumni Network will sponsor a community tailgate from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Baylor Ballpark. A…
The United States sent its most powerful airplanes to the Korean peninsula in recent weeks in part because it wants North Korea to know what the American military is capable of doing, the top U.S. Air Force commander in the Pacific said.
First lady Michelle Obama made a deeply personal entrance into the gun debate Wednesday, the eve of a showdown in Congress, by comparing herself to the honor student from her hometown shot to death a week after performing as a majorette in the presidential inaugural parade.
Banners promoting the event are up around campus, but no announcement has yet been made as to who will headline Baylor’s Diadeloso celebration.
With Diadeloso coming up in less than a week and no headliner announced, students are left wondering what their entertainment will be.
Softball season is more than halfway over and the No. 16 Baylor Lady Bears have three more series left against Big 12 teams.
The Lady Bears (30-10, 3-5 Big 12) are currently fifth in the Big 12, so there is a lot of work to be done if they want to compete in the postseason.
The Baylor Bears baseball team experienced unprecedented success last season by posting a 49-17 record. Even though it is still early in the season, this year’s Baylor team has a 17-16 record on the diamond and is already one loss away from equaling last season’s total.
Goats that previously appeared at Chicago’s Wrigley Field were alive and kicking.
But not Wednesday, when a goat’s head was left in a box outside the home of the Cubs addressed to team chairman Tom Ricketts.
The battle strategy for the 2013 W.R. Poage Lecture “Leadership and Lessons Learned from a Decade of Conflict” might need to change.
The lecture, scheduled for today, was originally set to feature retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. and former Fort Hood Commanding Gen. Pete Taylor and retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General and former Fort Hood Commanding General Paul Funk.
Tensions emerged Wednesday in a newly announced alliance between al-Qaida’s franchise in Iraq and the most powerful Syrian rebel faction, which said it was not consulted before the Iraqi group announced their merger and only heard about it through the media.
The 2013 State of the Media report shows that newsrooms have cut their staff by 30 percent since 2000.
With newsrooms at their lowest capacity since 1978, journalists are worried about job prospects and many avid news consumers doubt the quality of information.
A veteran rescue swimmer has been charged with desertion after he went missing for three months and triggered a massive search, the Coast Guard said Wednesday.
Petty Officer 1st Class Russell Matthews faces three other charges including being absent without leave, wrongful use and possession of a controlled substance, and causing the Coast Guard to conduct a search when there was no need, said Chief Warrant Officer Gene Maestas, a Coast Guard spokesman. An Article 32 hearing — the military equivalent of a grand jury hearing — will be held to determine if there’s enough evidence for Matthews to be tried in a court-martial.
Hypocrisy is something that rubs people the wrong way.
Currently standing atop the hypocritical power rankings is the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, more commonly known as PETA.