Baylor News
After a fall filled with personal bests and breakout performances, Baylor cross country enters championship season with momentum. The Bears look to turn steady progress into postseason results against one of the nation’s toughest fields.
Baylor football has not met its lofty preseason expectations through the first half of the season. They are trying to regroup and find that spark for a late-season push.
Two of Baylor’s highest-impact players this season are former walk-ons. The now-stars had to earn their way to becoming household names among Baylor fans.
At Career Day, students were introduced to a variety of career opportunities. For those looking to the next step, the Career Center is offering resources for interview preparation.
Waco News
Brittney Griner watched the Olympics and wished she was there. Thanks to the WNBA draft lottery, she might know where she’s going.
Before Rio in 2016, or even getting started in the pros next summer, there is still the senior season with the Lady Bears for the fun-loving All-American who can dunk and broke her right wrist in a longboarding accident this summer. Baylor is coming off the NCAA’s first 40-win season and returns every starter from its undefeated national championship team.
As an artist swiftly moves her paintbrush along the rugged edges of the blank truck, she begins to see the Waco Tribune-Herald come to life and the small cup fill with coffee — only to be emptied again.
The drawings on the sketchbook appear, and the book “East of Eden” gazes back at her.
Two Waco crime scene technicians recently helped the FBI apprehend a serial bank robber suspect.
Crime scene technicians Joyce Marek and Laura Teamer assisted in apprehending Bradley Craig Kilmer, who has been charged with numerous bank robberies in Texas, Georgia, and South Carolina.
Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said the technicians worked together to find and identify a partial palm print on a napkin used as a demand note in a bank robbery.
Donated blood in the Central Texas area has tested positive for the West Nile Virus since the recent outbreak this past summer.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, humans can contract West Nile through mosquito bites. It is most often spread to humans when a mosquito feeds on an infected bird, then bites a human. CDC statistics show approximately 80 percent, or four out of five people, infected with the virus will not show any symptoms at all.
State News
Texas voters turned out in historic numbers Tuesday, delivering victories for State Rep. James Talarico and forcing a runoff between Attorney General Ken Paxton and incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in the state’s U.S. Senate contest that claimed national attention. The total early-voting turnout of more than 2.5 million marks the highest ever for a midterm primary election. The results also kicked off the 2026 midterm cycle.
