Baylor University’s vice president for student life Kevin Jackson announced three gatherings hosted by Spiritual Life this week. Each is open to Baylor faculty, students and staff and remembers a student who died over Christmas break.

Down by 18 at one point, it appeared the magic of Baylor football’s 2011 season would end Thursday night in San Antonio against Washington. A team with a Heisman winner, however, did not give up that easy, and at the end of the night, confetti and balloons were raining down on head coach Art Briles and the Bears.

No. 6 Baylor improved to 13-0 with a 54-52 win over No. 14 Mississippi State.

A single-engine plane crashed in central Texas, killing five people aboard including two children, and the victims were likely related, officials said Tuesday.

NWAonline.com, a local news site for northwest Arkansas, has reported that one of the deceased in what local officials called an apparent murdered suicide, was a Baylor student.