The “Cultural Crossroads” exhibit shows how Native Americans, Anglo settlers, Tejanos and Black residents shaped the Central Texas we know today.
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A tiny home, a giant step: First residents of Mission Waco village leave homelessness for home
This week the first residents move into tiny homes at Creekside Community Village with the promise of peace, stability and community.
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Central Texas Food Bank hub in East Waco will help local hunger ministries scale up
The Central Texas Food Bank facility set to open in early June will help stock area pantries while preparing hot meals and offering job training.
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Turning Point headliner Benny Johnson tells Baylor crowd that deportation benefits gene pool
The YouTube conservative star also cheered Democratic men for getting vasectomies and said that 80% of the U.S. population would be the “progeny of conservatives” by the year 2100.
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Baylor’s dueling events peaceful as Turning Point casts blame over turnout
Student attendance for the Turning Point USA and “All Are Neighbors” events Wednesday each numbered in the hundreds. The conservative organization said Baylor forced it to turn away non-Baylor attendees, but the university said that was the original agreement.
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Photo Essay: Peace prevails as Baylor hosts TPUSA, progressive events
No conflict was evident Wednesday as hundreds of students attended competing political events by Turning Point USA and Baylor progressive groups.
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Surviving 31 below: Sci-fi scenes from ARKTOS, Baylor University’s Arctic research lab
Baylor University and military researchers are using a giant freezer to test what a soldier’s mind and body can endure during encounters with “Arctic adversaries”
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Competition enlivens Keep Waco Beautiful’s Brazos River cleanup
Some 200 volunteers set out on foot and on kayaks Saturday to see who could clean up the most garbage from the Waco riverfront.
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The last baptism: A farewell to Church Under the Bridge’s founding pastor
Jimmy Dorrell, the legendary urban minister, bade farewell Sunday to his outdoor urban congregation after baptizing a dozen people in the chilly waters of the Middle Bosque River.
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“Waco Voices Live” storytellers share what it means to be Hispanic in Waco
Remembering a landmark corner grocery store, a beloved newspaper, a grandmother’s house and the neighborhoods that defined Waco’s Hispanic community.
