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Baylor faculty members split over Sloan no-confidence vote WACO (AP) — As embattled Baylor University President Robert Sloan prepared to welcome incoming freshmen to the world's largest Baptist university on Thursday, dueling groups of professors clashed over a faculty leader's call for a no-confidence vote on Sloan. Even before basketball player Patrick Dennehy's slaying put the Central Texas university under an intense spotlight, Sloan had clashed with many faculty members over a reform plan that the official alumni magazine characterized as a "struggle for the heart and soul of Baylor." In the wake of Dennehy's death, revelations of major NCAA...

Posted on Fri, Aug. 15, 2003Bliss planned Baylor cover-upBy Danny Robbins Star-Telegram Staff Writer WACO - Before he resigned as Baylor University's basketball coach, Dave Bliss directed players to provide investigators with false information indicating that slain teammate Patrick Dennehy had paid his tuition by dealing drugs, according to conversations secretly recorded by an assistant coach. "What we've got to create here is drugs," Bliss said in one of the conversations, which were taped by assistant coach Abar Rouse with a concealed microcassette recorder on July 30 and 31 and Aug. 1. The tapes also reveal that Bliss knew some...

<p>WACO, Texas — Authorities found a body Saturday in an area they had searched for missing Baylor basketball player Patrick Dennehy (search), but they could not immediately say if it was him.</p> <p>"We can confirm that there has been a body found, but we have no further information about that at this time," McClennan County sheriff's Capt. Paul Wash said. "It was in the same general vicinity that other searches have been conducted this week."</p>

Police are investigating a Baylor basketball player in the disappearance of teammate Patrick Dennehy, according to court documents filed this afternoon. Patrick Dennehy An affidavit accompanying a warrant to search Dennehy's computer identifies Carlton Dotson, a junior forward on the Baylor basketball team, as a suspect. Waco Police Chief Alberto Melis said this afternoon that police are treating Dennehy's disappearance as a homicide. He also said that an unidentified person who may have information about the case was also a member of the Baylor community, but he did not mention the team specifically, nor did he identify any suspects. But...

WACO, Texas -- Some of Patrick Dennehy's teammates might be suspects in the disappearance of the Baylor basketball player, police said Friday. Dennehy, a 6-foot-10, 230-pound center, has not been seen or heard from in more than two weeks. While police have not found a body, department spokesman Steven Anderson said they "have received information from several sources that would lead investigators to believe that foul play was involved." In a written statement, Anderson said police were looking into whether Dennehy might have been killed in the Waco area. A sport utility vehicle belonging to Dennehy was found this week...

WACO, Texas -- Some of Patrick Dennehy's teammates might be suspects in the disappearance of the Baylor basketball player, police said Friday. Dennehy, a 6-foot-10, 230-pound center, has not been seen or heard from in more than two weeks. While police have not found a body, department spokesman Steven Anderson said they "have received information from several sources that would lead investigators to believe that foul play was involved." In a written statement, Anderson said police were looking into whether Dennehy might have been killed in the Waco area. A sport utility vehicle belonging to Dennehy was found this week...