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The demolition of a state-designated historic home near Baylor may have violated the state’s government code, said Chris Florance, director of communications at the Texas Historical Commission.

With midterms approaching, the fitness department has opportunities for students to work off their stress, including a free weights series. After the New Year’s resolution surge of gym attendance, the next peak comes at this time of the semester, said Clint Patterson, coordinator of fitness at the McLane Student Life Center.

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott predicted Wednesday that Texas and 25 other states would keep prevailing against President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration but refused to put a deadline on when National Guard troops will leave the border with Mexico.

The Baylor University Student Court began its hearing of the McCahill, Hardy v. Kinghorn lawsuit Tuesday, in courtroom 127 of the Law School.

After struggling through my financial accounting class, I gained an immense respect for those who choose to make a career out of accounting. I also realized the importance of practicing ethical behavior.

Orange is the new green for Baylor business students and prisoners in the Prison Entrepreneurship Program.

For the first time in the Baylor Mock Trial Team’s 15-year history, two teams are headed to compete at the national level.

St. Louis area authorities planning for a grand jury announcement had proposed stationing Missouri National Guard troops and armored Humvees in a Ferguson neighborhood where Michael Brown had been shot by a policeman, according to records released Tuesday detailing the state’s preparations.

A suicide bomber trying to enter a police complex in eastern Pakistan killed five people Tuesday, officials said, in a rare attack on the relatively peaceful city of Lahore.

While savoring a major court victory from his old job, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday gave marching orders at his new one in a State of the State address that abandoned the fiery flair and defiant rhetoric on social issues that his predecessor had.

Oil cars were still burning more than a day after a train carrying 3 million gallons of North Dakota crude derailed in a West Virginia snowstorm, shooting fireballs into the sky.

Following a campaign to engage students in the minority community and break stigmas associated with counseling, the counseling center’s Let’s Talk program has seen a dramatic increase in the number of students who use its services, said Monique Marsh-Bell, a psychologist at the center.

Egypt bombed Islamic State militants in neighboring Libya on Monday and called on the United States and Europe to join an international military intervention in the chaotic North African state after extremists beheaded a group of Egyptian Christians.

It’s the South’s turn to suffer from the snow, freezing rain and sleet in a storm that brought back memories of one from the same time a year ago.

Despite drizzling weather, people seeking health insurance under the Affordable Care Act streamed into some Texas enrollment centers Sunday, the final day they could sign up this year.

Authorities have increased to $75,000 the reward for information to a Texas murder. Officials are seeking information leading to an arrest in the slaying last year of a family of four, including two children, in their suburban Houston home.

Texas is proud of its part-time Legislature, where many lawmakers make non-political livings and only pass laws on the side. That’s why their annual pay is only $7,200 plus expenses, and sessions come just once every two years.

European creditors issued Greece with an ultimatum Monday, saying the country must accept a key condition in bailout talks by the end of the week or face having to meet its debt commitments on its own — a prospect that many in the financial markets think would leave Greece little option but to leave the euro.

Baylor students gathered to mourn the loss of three University of North Carolina students for a candlelight service at 8 p.m. Sunday at the Bill Daniel Student Building.

Student Senate voted not to ask Woodinville, Wash., senior Gannon McCahill to resign in an executive session Thursday at the Student Senate meeting, said Port Barre, La., sophomore Lindsey Bacque, the public relations committee chair for the internal vice president.

President Barack Obama wants members of the private sector to share information about threats to cybersecurity with each other and with the federal government.

Baylor’s McLane Stadium has been nominated for “Stadium of the Year 2014” by Stadium Database, an entity that presents stadiums in unique ways, according to their website.

A court ordered two Al-Jazeera journalists freed on bail Thursday after more than a year in detention on terrorism charges in a case that human rights groups have called a sham.

Gun rights are again a focus at the Texas Capitol after drawing attention over rallies outside and confrontations inside.

Greece and its creditors in the 19-country eurozone took visible, if modest, steps Thursday to bridge their differences over Athens’ demands to lighten the load of its bailout, but an imminent deal appears still to be some way off.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who is weighing a presidential bid, made his first hire in the key early voting state of New Hampshire on Thursday, bringing aboard political strategist Rich Killion.

Dr. Ryan King, biology department graduate program director, will counsel the Scenic River Joint Study Committee, which will finalize the phosphorous level of Oklahoma’s scenic rivers, a central point of numerous legal battles between Oklahoma and Arkansas.

After 57 years of teaching at Baylor, Dr. Roger Kirk, distinguished professor of psychology and statistics, said he received what he considers the most important award of his career.

BRUSSELS — Talks between Greece and its creditors in the 19-country eurozone broke down Thursday without agreement or even a plan of action on how to move forward on the country’s debts and bailout.

After ten years of preparation, Prosper Waco will host their inaugural event from 3:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday at the Waco Convention Center in an effort to introduce themselves to the Waco community.