Baylor Relay For Life will host their annual 12 hour event this week themed “Compete to Beat Cancer.”
This year’s relay will feature a sports theme throughout the festivities in the form of tournaments and challenges from 7 p.m. Friday to 7 a.m. Saturday on Fountain Mall.
Browsing: Waco
Two Baylor professors will be attempting to opt their fourth grade son at Waco Independent School District out of taking the standardized State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness [STAAR] test.
Literary icons: masters of words, image and meter — poetry steps off the page and onto campus this week.
The 20th annual Beall Poetry Festival, beginning today and ends Friday, is full of events for poetry lovers. The 2014 festival features four award-winning guest participants: Andrew Hudgins, Valzhyna Mort, Christian Wiman and Ronald Schuchard.
An abandoned building on what was once the campus of Waco College, later called Paul Quinn College, is getting a makeover. On Thursday, Rapoport Academy Public School will begin renovating the dilapidated building that once hosted the students of a college founded to educate those newly freed from slaves.
Members of the Baylor Bear Foundation held a vote to dissolve the group’s non-profit status and formally incorporate with the university, around 1P.M., Saturay March 22.
Fire trucks and police cars lined the driveway of the Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center around 4 p.m Monday. The Waco Fire Department and campus police responded to a call about smoke coming out of the ceiling on the building’s second floor.
Photos: 2014 Bearathon
The 12th Annual Student Foundation Bearathon and 5K run took place this morning. This year, the race hosted nearly 2,300 participants, said director of Student Foundation Ashton Cooper.
Marina is Open for Spring from Baylor Lariat on Vimeo.
Baylor student Daniel Jones never finished Bearathon last year; he collapsed before the finish line. But his Kappa Omega Tau fraternity brothers are running on Saturday to honor his memory at this year’s annual race.
U.S. Rep. Bill Flores, R-Texas, and political director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Rob Engstrom discussed topics of national interest with Wacoans Thursday morning at Waco’s first State of the Nation Luncheon.
The city of Waco is pursuing legal action to force the improvement of three publicly unsafe buildings on 17th and 18th streets. The three buildings have been deemed unsafe for years, one dating back to 2007.
A 21-year-old Baylor student sustained significant injuries Wednesday after being hit by a car driven by a 20-year-old student off of Fourth Street and Daughtrey Avenue.
Good Friday will mark the 11th year Emily Mills has been ministering to an unsuspecting industry. She figured out exotic dancing isn’t just for men; it’s for showing the love of Jesus too.
Waco police took no bull Tuesday afternoon when a begrudged bovine ran through the neighborhood behind LaSalle Avenue in South Waco around 1:30 p.m.
The Baylor School of Music creates a unique garden once a week where the youngest in the community can grow. It is a garden of music.
Local businesses have the chance through the Cen-Tex African American Chamber of Commerce to be counseled and network with other businesses.
Spring breakers staying in Waco can travel not across the state, but through time and experience rituals of a past time at the Mayborn Museum.
The Gov. Bill and Vara Daniel Historic Village is holding daily activities from 1 to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday for their Spring in the Village event. The village, which is based on a 1890s community on the Brazos River, will hold activities that mirror early Texas settler life.
Never Say Die from Baylor Lariat on Vimeo.
With curiosity and excitement on the rise, it seems that Baylor students are salivating for the opening of Torchy’s Tacos in Waco.
Richland Mall is getting the first makeover it’s had in 18 years. By November, the mall’s owners will have made millions of dollars of renovations in an attempt to enhance customers’ shopping experience.
Larry Groth’s last day as Waco city manager will be Saturday, as he is retiring after 10 years of service in the position. His seat is now going to Dale Fisseler, the current deputy city manager. Citizens of Waco gathered Wednesday in the Waco Convention Center for a reception to eat, drink and celebrate memories of Groth’s time working with the city.
The city is rethinking conventional methods of helping the chronically homeless.
Ex-felon Edward Alvarado, 42, surrendered to a Waco Police Department SWAT unit Thursday night after a three-hour standoff on the 1400 block of 26th Street, said Sgt. Patrick W. Swanton, the Waco police public information officer.
Dr. Pedro Reyes’ dream of having an indoor sports facility in Waco has finally come to reality.
Waco firefighters responded to a fire alarm around 2 p.m. Thursday at Carroll Science Hall.
Chad Moegelin, a firefighter on the scene, said the alarm was triggered by dust on the system’s sensors.
Those driving down Bosque Boulevard might notice a large sign at the intersection of 25th Street that reads “Waco Baha’i Center” standing over what was, years ago, a pharmacy. Baha’is have been a part of Waco for more than 50 years, and to this day, people of the Baha’i faith are still active in the Waco community.
Hammers, nails and electric saws sounded as nearly 30 Habitat for Humanity volunteers and community leaders gathered for the first Harvest House Wall Raising Saturday morning at 408 Boyd Lane in Waco.
With hair teased bigger than Texas, earrings so large they have to be held on with glue and not one, but two pairs of fake eyelashes weighing down my eyelids, you probably would have judged me to be exactly what I looked like, a hopeful Texas beauty queen.
