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For most runners, 3 miles is nothing. What about a 3.24-mile race with water, fire and run-down trailers blocking your way? Yes, trailers. Now that’s a challenge.

No. 8 baseball increased its winning streak to 15 as the Bears swept their three-game series with Missouri in Columbia,…

No. 12 women’s tennis defeated Texas A&M 5-2 Thursday at the Hurd Tennis Center and then beat No. 18 Notre…

The Women’s Equestrian National Championships will be held all day Thursday through Saturday at the Extraco Events Center. The championship…

Baylor and the city of Waco will host a downtown parade along Austin Avenue starting at 5:30 p.m. Monday, moving…

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday that the Justice Department will respond “appropriately” to a federal appellate judge in Texas who demanded a letter recognizing federal courts’ authority to strike down laws passed by Congress.

The 2012 “Seminary Day” at Baylor will be held from noon to 4 p.m. Wednesday in the Bobo Spiritual Life Center and will feature at least 20 seminaries and divinity schools from around the nation.

Thousands of travelers were still facing delays and canceled flights Wednesday at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport a day after massive storms packing tornadoes rolled through North Texas, but the disruptions were mostly isolated and hadn’t rippled out across the country.

The senior recognition banquet honoring 2012 business graduates will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in 510 Cashion…

Softball will play Texas A&M from 6:30to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Baylor Ballpark. Tickets can be purchased at the…

Tornadoes and violent storms raked through the Dallas area, Tuesday, crumbling the wing of a nursing home, peeling roofs from dozens of homes and spiraling big-rig trailers into the air like footballs. More than a dozen injuries were reported.

A North Texas man is dead after he fell from a cliff while posing for a photograph with a landmark Austin bridge in the background.

In the four years since Texas authorities swarmed the polygamist ranch of sect leader Warren Jeffs, state prosecutors have spent more than $4.5 million racking up swift convictions against him and 10 loyal followers on child sex and bigamy charges, according to records obtained by The Associated Press.

Baylor softball will play a doubleheader against Kansas University at 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. Friday at the Baylor Ballpark.…

Women’s tennis will play Texas A&M at noon Saturday at the Hurd Tennis Center. Tickets can be purchased at the…

A gunman opened fire at a Christian university in California Monday before being captured hours later at a shopping center in a nearby city, authorities said. At least seven people were killed and three more sustained injuries in the shooting.