Baylor News
Tiriah Kelley delivered a top-10 national time in her outdoor 200 debut, while Molly Haywood reclaimed the pole vault podium. Baylor backed it up with relay improvements and personal bests across a loaded field at the Tom Jones Memorial meet.
Baylor held the advantage heading into a Sunday doubleheader against TCU, taking game one 11-4 on Friday night. the Horned Frogs spoiled the Bears’ chance at a series win with a two-game sweep on Sunday.
No. 2 seed TCU took care of business against No. 3 seed Baylor men’s tennis, sweeping the Bears 4-0 in the Big 12 Championship semifinals.
Coordinated by Computing for Compassion, the Association of Computing Machinery and Baylor Cyber, the 24-hour Wacode Hackathon challenged contestants to develop software with a positive social impact and a solution to a real humanitarian problem, all in the time-constrained environment of a hackathon.
Waco News
Truett Theological Seminary and Texas Baptist Women in Ministry have created virtual opportunities to connect people from around the globe through webinars.
The south end of 10th Street flooded with people celebrating the national championship win Monday night as the Waco police department and the fire department supervised the masses from afar.
The Waco Police Department responded to a shooting that killed 18-year-old Damon Morgan Jr. of Waco Sunday.
Dr. Sheryl Victorian makes history as the first female and Black Waco PD police chief.
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.
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