David Jimenez was so elated over his wife’s recovery from cancer that he offered to clean the large crucifix outside the Hudson Valley church where he spent many hours praying for her to beat the disease.
On Memorial Day 2010, he was scrubbing grime off the cross when the 600-pound marble statuary toppled over, crushing his right leg.
A nor’easter blustered into New York and New Jersey on Wednesday with rain and wet snow, plunging homes right back into darkness, stopping commuter trains again, and inflicting another round of misery on thousands of people still reeling from Superstorm Sandy’s blow more than a week ago.
Asian Students Association is hosting its eighth annual AsianFest Culture Show and banquet on Friday and Saturday.
The event, which showcases multicultural acts from across the university, is aimed at celebrating Asian culture.
Incumbent Bill Flores earned a second term in the U.S. House Tuesday defeating Libertarian Ben Easton. Flores received 85 percent of the vote.
No Democrat ran opposed to the incumbent. Flores was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for his first term in November 2010.
President Barack Obama won re-election Tuesday night despite a fierce challenge from Republican Mitt Romney, prevailing in the face of a weak economy and high unemployment that encumbered his first term and crimped the middle class dreams of millions.
Texas overwhelmingly elected tea party-backed Republican Ted Cruz to the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, completing the former state solicitor general’s once seemingly impossible rise from virtual unknown to the first Hispanic to represent the Lone Star State in the Senate.
At Baylor, the fall signals the clashing of helmets on the gridiron, cooler weather and for ProSales students, the launch of sales competition season.
Here are the winners:
U.S. Senator,
REP Ted Cruz 63.70%
DEM Paul Sadler 33.97%
President Barack Obama was projected the winner of the presidential race over Mitt Romney on Tuesday night.
By Curtis Schroeder Guest contributor At Baylor University, the fall signals the clashing of helmets on the gridiron, cooler weather…
As of today, it has been 72 days since the No. 14 Baylor women’s soccer team has lost a game. The most recent victory was the 4-1 win over the TCU Horned Frogs in which they clenched the Big 12 Championship.
A caped figure captured on surveillance video came running out of the darkness to the edge of a remote Army outpost in southern Afghanistan. Blood was smeared on his face, prosecutors said, and soaked into his clothes.
The Spiritual Life department will hold two prayer services this week in the Foyer of Meditation in the Armstrong Browning Library in addition to a prayer service which took place Monday.
Beginning at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday and Friday, students will have the opportunity to rest, worship and pray at this free event designed for young adults. The events are facilitated by Brother Emmanuel of the Taize community.
The Baylor Board of Regents added two new doctoral programs to the university’s School of Music and a joint master’s degree in divinity and business administration on Saturday at the board’s annual Homecoming meeting.
Former U.S. congressman Chet Edwards, W.R. Poage Distinguished Chair for Public Service, made an appearance Monday to speak to students about the ins and outs of political ads and their effectiveness in elections.
Baylor won its first Big 12 Conference Soccer Championship in a 4-1 victory over TCU on Sunday.
The second-seeded Bears (17-1-4) have earned the Big 12’s automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament.
The Baylor football team finally recorded a win in conference play with a 41-14 victory over the Kansas Jayhawks.
“This is the first time I’ve felt good in a month,” head coach Art Briles said. “I wish I was being funny.”
It was a coming out party for sophomore running back Lache Seastrunk had 105 yards on the ground and 95 yards through the air.
The Baylor University Board of Regents met today for its annual Homecoming meeting. During the meeting, the addition of two new doctoral programs to the university’s School of Music and a joint master’s degree in divinity and business administration were approved. University stadium founders and recipients of last night’s 2012-2013 Baylor Meritorious Awards were also honored.
For many families, a Christmas tree represents joy, holiday spirit and precious memories. For others, a tree represents unsafe curiosity, potential danger and added stress.
Killeen native Jessica Mann’s 5 year-old son, Jayian, was diagnosed with autism in Febuary 2010. For her, having a large Christmas tree in the home poses multiple problems.
Violence that sometimes borders the University of Southern California crept onto campus when an argument outside a Halloween party escalated to a shooting that critically wounded one man and injured three other people and led administrators Thursday to reassess policies of the school near high-crime neighborhoods.
The “conspiracy of silence” that protected Jerry Sandusky extended all the way to the top at Penn State, prosecutors said Thursday as they charged former university President Graham Spanier with hushing up child sexual abuse allegations against the former assistant football coach.
Prosecutors also added counts against two of Spanier’s former underlings, Tim Curley and Gary Schultz, who were already charged with lying to a grand jury.
Students looking for the latest Baylor news and beyond, now need to look no further than their pocket.
The Baylor Lariat has recently released a free app on numerous platforms that brings news and headlines directly to readers’ iPhones, iPads and iPods and will soon be available on any device running the Android operating system.
Fill your empty shoeboxes for children.
Every year, the freshman class does a project to benefit the community through service and ministry.
This year, Kingwood freshman class and president Jay Fields and the other class officers chose Operation Christmas Child for their class project.
The mission of Operation Christmas Child is to bring gifts and the gospel to children who would not normally receive a present on Christmas.
Planned Parenthood will continue to receive funds from a joint Texas and federal program providing health care to low-income women, despite the state’s promise to exclude its clinics by Nov. 1 because they are affiliated with abortion providers.
A grand jury will consider the case of two Guatemalan immigrants killed when a Texas state trooper in a helicopter opened fire to stop a tarp-covered truck that authorities thought was ferrying drugs near the Mexico border, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
The Baylor-Waco partnership is still going strong.
Waco Independent School District, the City of Waco and Baylor University are collaborating with other local organizations to create a new community-wide position that will tackle poverty in Waco: the chief administrative officer for community and family outreach.
Baylor students living in New York as a part of the Baylor Communication in New York program said the wind and rain from Hurricane Sandy were nothing — compared to the disruption in the public transportation system.
Dr. Alan Jacobs, currently the Clyde S. Kilby chair professor of English at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill., has accepted an offer to become a new distinguished professor of literature at Baylor. Beginning next fall, Jacobs will lecture for the Honors Program, a program located under the umbrella of the Honors College designed to supplement the university’s undergraduate honors degree.
Suddenly, after drifting through months of confusing finger-pointing and iffy economic theory, the presidential candidates are getting walloped by an October surprise. Superstorm Sandy is a real-world, gut-level test.
The force of nature threw cold water on the campaign bickering just as President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney were charging into a final week of man-made rancor.
“It’s sort of like Mother Nature is intervening and calling a timeout,” said historian and presidential biographer Douglas Brinkley.
Following an armed robbery that occurred near campus Monday night, Baylor students, faculty and staff received emergency alerts that have led to the refinement of Baylor’s emergency notification system.
The notices, which were sent at 11:18 p.m. by Leigh Ann Moffett of Baylor Emergency Management, alerted readers to an incident that occurred near the intersection of Eighth Street and Bagby Avenue.
