Baylor News
The Baylor University Institute for Oral History hosted the Black History Month Walk to honor on the people in history that might have been forgotten. The annual event hosted about 100 people through the streets of Waco Saturday morning, beginning at the McLennan County courthouse.
Baylor earned its first ranked win of the season in an extra-inning thriller against No. 25 Ole Miss. The victory is the eighth ranked win in the Mitch Thompson era and proved to be the Bears’ highlight of the Bruce Bolt College Classic.
With the indoor conference season coming to a close in Lubbock, Baylor track and field earned 12 All-Big 12 honors and key qualifying marks as select Bears now turn their focus toward the final test, the NCAA Championships.
Baylor acrobatics and tumbling stretched its win streak to 54 consecutive meets Saturday with a 278.050-272.530 win over the No. 2-ranked Oregon Ducks.
Waco News
Twitter blurbs: Show support for ending heart disease in women by wearing red Friday; Join hundreds of thousands of organizations nationwide on National Wear Red Day
By Rylee Seavers | Staff WriterLocals met to discuss how to make Waco a welcoming…
By Rylee Seavers | Staff WriterWacoans gathered downtown to protest recent executive action to continue…
Twitter blurbs: Race for the Texas Police Chiefs Association Foundation this Saturday; Bound for the Brave takes off Saturday morning to support enforcement officers
Covid-19
“Since July 1st, Baylor’s campus has had nine positives out of 48 tests,” Stern said. “And in the last month alone, we have had seven positives out of 29 tests, which is almost a 25% positivity rate.”
State News
Tensions continued to grow over the summer between political adversaries as Texas state Sen. James Talarico called on Attorney General Ken Paxton to release internal records related to a controversial child sexual abuse case involving former Waco attorney and Baylor Law graduate Adam Hoffman.
