The Waco Star’s talent show and karaoke contest, benefiting the Family Abuse Center, will be…

Baylor Opera Theatre presents Gaetano Donizetti’s “Rita” or “The Beaten Husband,” a one-act comic opera…

Felix Baumgartner stood poised in the open hatch of a capsule suspended above Earth, wondering if he would make it back alive. Twenty-four miles below him, millions of people were right there with him, watching on the Internet and marveling at the wonder of the moment.

A second later, he stepped off the capsule and barreled toward the New Mexico desert as a tiny white speck against a darkly-tinted sky. Millions watched him breathlessly as he shattered the sound barrier and then landed safely about nine minutes later, becoming the world’s first supersonic skydiver.