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Once again Baylor students are stepping up to help the community.

On Saturday, Baylor students will head to various locations in Waco to volunteer for Steppin’ Out, a biannual day of service in its 27th year in which Baylor students serve the surrounding community.

More than 2,750 students from 102 student organizations will help at more than 55 sites across the Waco area.

Gabrielle Giffords limped to the front of the courtroom and stared silently Thursday as she came face-to-face for the first time with the man who tried to kill her.

The former congresswoman hadn’t been near Jared Lee Loughner since the deadly rampage outside a meet-and-greet at a supermarket that killed six people and left her partially blind, with a paralyzed right arm and brain injury.

Graduates of the Baylor School of Law won top honors for the percentage of first-time test-takers that passed the bar exam this past July. The law school reports that 92.59 percent of law graduates passed the July exam after their first attempt to take the test. The results were released Nov. 1.

And that, as they say, is that. President Barack Obama has been re-elected for another four-year term.

After months of campaigning in battleground states across the country and spending billions of dollars on not-so-subliminal commercials, the American people have spoken.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.