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Baylor has its own version of the Barden Bellas from “Pitch Perfect” called VirtuOSO.

There was something different about the 62nd legislative session of student government, but Rockwall senior Forrest Davis couldn’t pinpoint exactly what it was.

It was 10:40 a.m., five minutes before the lunch hour started. Students were lining up at the entrance of Penland Crossroads dining hall. John Mercer, in his black hat, black chef uniform and black frame glasses, was giving final reminders to his staff.
“Tomorrow is the game day,” he said with a serious face. “We need to make sure that we do continuous service.”

Dr. Heidi Marcum’s two starkly different worlds keep her peaceful and give her a sense of purpose.

Eight years ago in Richmond, a Habitat for Humanity chapter was erecting the frame of a structure soon to be someone’s house. It was Framing Day, as Habitat volunteers call it. Now, Richmond junior Allison Carrington is the president of Baylor Habitat for Humanity and still remembers the day of her first experience as a volunteer.

At the start of the semester, each dorm room was a generic, empty space with nothing to set it apart from the rest. The only thing to distinguish one from another was a name taped to the door. On the inside were just naked mattresses and empty dressers waiting to be claimed by new occupants.

When Beeville sophomores Claire and Paige McKinney went on family road trips as children, it wasn’t exactly the most pleasant time. They were shoved in the back seat, not because they wanted to, but their other four sisters occupied the rest of the seats.

Baylor game days can be hot with cheering fans enduring temperatures well into the 90s and sometimes the 100s.

For decades, not only on Baylor’s campus but across the nation, rumors have permeated the minds of the masses and spread as fact with little credibility.

Action. Reality TV shows generally feature a cast of people who do interesting things. Typically unscripted (for the most part), these shows portray people who perhaps weren’t widely known before the show premiered.

The American Diabetes Association is making efforts to educate the public about the widespread disease during November.

Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion has joined forces with a Dallas nonprofit, faith-based organization to transform and improve at-risk communities in West Dallas.

Nonprofit organizations in Waco are helping to keep the homes of the elderly and disabled warm, as temperatures dropped substantially.

Every year in cemeteries across the country, people gather to pay respect to veterans who have died since the founding of the United States. This Christmas, the tradition will continue in Waco.

The St. Louis region is on edge in anticipation of an announcement from the grand jury that is weighing whether to charge police officer Darren Wilson in the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown.

Roofs began to creak and collapse and homeowners struggled to clear waist-high drifts atop their houses Thursday as another storm brought the Buffalo area’s three-day snowfall total to an epic 7 feet or more.

French authorities have found a mysterious stone sculpture at the bottom of the River Seine, which may have been there for centuries.

Spurning furious Republicans, President Barack Obama unveiled expansive executive actions on immigration Thursday night to spare nearly 5 million people in the U.S. illegally from deportation and refocus enforcement efforts on “felons, not families.”

A Florida State University alumnus and attorney who shot three people at the school’s library early Thursday believed the government was targeting him for persecution, detailing his thoughts in a journal and in videos detectives obtained, authorities said.

After three trips with Baylor Missions in Ghana as an undergraduate studying social work, Bartlesville, Okla., master’s candidate Emily Hood fell in love with the orphanage All Nations Charity Home.

Baylor police officers have their eyes in the sky through the use of a SkyWatch surveillance system after repairs were made to cameras this week.

After a reported disturbance Tuesday night, twenty-two-year-old Michael Ross Parker was arrested Wednesday morning on weapon and drug charges near the southwest edge of Baylor’s campus.

In a broad test of his executive powers, President Barack Obama declared Wednesday he will sidestep Congress and order his own federal action on immigration — in measures that could spare from deportation as many as 5 million people illegally in the U.S. and set up one of the most pitched partisan confrontations of his presidency.

A Maine logger helped save an infant from drowning when he crawled into a car that was upside-down in water and used a knife to cut the straps off her car seat and pull her out, police said.

President Barack Obama called on local school officials Wednesday to help meet his goal of bringing high-speed Internet to virtually every American student within a few years.

Twenty-two-year-old Michael Ross Parker is in McLennan County Jail tonight after his arrest on weapon and drug charges this morning at the southwest edge of Baylor’s campus.

Food, fellowship and fun are on tonight’s agenda for Baylor students.

Nearly 10 years ago, life for the Tuohy family was forever changed with two simple words. Those two words became the foundation of a new mindset that changed not only their own lives, but the lives of many.

Jessica Cox was born without arms, but it wasn’t a limitation in life, just another way to distinguish herself.