A Baylor engineering professor and Mission Waco are partnering to form Six Eight Technologies, a new program of Mission Waco-Mission World that will offer training and opportunities for people who want to serve in a technical capacity in developing countries.

Changing light bulbs every few months can be a hassle. Using light emitting diodes (LEDs) can decrease the number of light bulb changes, because LEDs have a longer lifespan compared to traditional lighting.

This fall, Baylor Facilities will hire an intern to determine the most cost- and energy-efficient lighting for campus.

A Florida man’s bid to become the first illegal immigrant to obtain a law license in the United States met skepticism Tuesday from most of the state’s Supreme Court justices.

Jose Godinez-Samperio came to the U.S. with his parents on visitors’ visas when he was 9 years old, but the family never returned to Mexico. He graduated from New College in Florida, earned a law degree from Florida State University and passed the state bar exam last year.

“He’s somebody who has done everything he’s supposed to do. He complied with every rule,” Godinez-Samperio’s attorney and former American Bar Association president Talbot “Sandy” D’Alemberte, said after the hearing.

A North Texas man was looking for a car to steal “like a predator seeking prey” when he came upon a church, where he killed the pastor and beat the secretary before stealing her car, a prosecutor told jurors as the man’s capital murder trial began Monday.

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 25, faces the death penalty if convicted in last year’s death of the Rev. Clint Dobson, a 2008 graduate of Truett Seminary.