Texas wants ownership of Warren Jeffs’ massive ranch where prosecutors say the convicted polygamist sect leader and his followers sexually assaulted dozens of children, the state attorney general’s office said Wednesday.

Mark Carlson, senior creative director of U.S. McDonald’s Marketing, will discuss the ins and outs of marketing at 2:30 p.m. Friday in Bennett Auditorium.

Carlson’s lecture will encompass a summary of McDonald’s advertising from its small beginnings to its current global reach.

“He will talk about the challenges of marketing for the world’s most iconic brand and how that brand has evolved over all these years,” Cynthia Jackson, president of the Waco chapter of the American Advertising Federation, said.

The Baylor Round Table is hosting its annual Christmas luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday in Armstrong Browning Library.

“It’s been a yearly event for as long as I can remember,” said Carol Schuetz, one of the co-chairs for the Christmas Luncheon committee of the Baylor Round Table.

U.S. Department of Defense’s Office of Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs awarded Baylor two research grants to assist with research on Gulf War Illness.

The grants, which total nearly $1.6 million, bring the total amount Baylor has acquired for research on the illness to $2.3 million.

The illness, which affects an estimated one in four of the 700,000 military personnel who served in the Gulf War from 1990-1991, is a medical condition that seems symptom-specific to those soldiers.

Symptoms include chronic headache, widespread pain, memory and concentration difficulties and digestive abnormalities, according to an article published by Bio-Medicine.