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The ninth-ranked Ole Miss men’s tennis team is preparing for a busy holiday weekend as the team gets ready to travel to Auburn, Alabama, to compete against the University of Auburn on Friday, April 2. Just two days later, the...

One case of the B.1.1.7 United Kingdom COVID-19 strain and one case of B.1.427 California COVID-19 strain were reported on Friday in Lafayette County, according to a tweet from the Mississippi State Department of Health. “Like other previously identified COVID-19...

The University of Mississippi will begin offering appointments for the single-dose Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine starting Thursday, March 31. The Office of the Provost sent a campus-wide email on Tuesday, giving students, faculty and staff the opportunity to sign...

A part of Chucky Mullins Drive, from South Poole Drive to Fraternity Row, will be closed to traffic from March 29 to April 2 due to a construction project, according to an email from University of Mississippi Facilities Planning. The...

Many of Mississippi’s more than 25,000 state employees will get a 3% pay raise under an agreement reached between House and Senate leaders as they work to finalize a budget this week and conclude the 2021 legislative session. Under the...

The Daily Mississippian and Newswatch Ole Miss won awards in the Southeastern Journalism Conference Best of the South Competition and the state Mississippi Press Association competition this past weekend.  The Best of the South Competition recognized students and their bodies...

While Gov. Tate Reeves and the Oxford Board of Aldermen decided to lift statewide and local mask mandates on March 2, the number of active COVID-19 cases in Lafayette County has decreased over the past two weeks.  According to the...

The Associated Student Body senior class officers are responsible for choosing and fundraising for the senior gift.  Jake Fanning, the current ASB attorney general, said although the elected officers do not have many required responsibilities, they are ultimately responsible for...

Though the university canceled spring break this year as a safety precaution, many students are still planning to travel this month.  Adeline Dunn, a junior communication sciences and disorders major, decided to take her break from school a few weeks...

Vaught-Hemingway Stadium will be adding a Flex Dollar portal to concession stands for the football season next fall.  Robert Hughes, a sophomore computer science major and Associated Student Body vice chair of the athletics committee, said that he first brought...