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Eighteen Oxford businesses were found to be in violation of laws banning the sale of beer and vape products to minors last week when the enforcement division of the state attorney general’s office conducted a compliance check. “By Mississippi state...

Curtis Wilkie grew up at the University of Mississippi. As a child, he lived in a family dorm as his mother worked to earn her Master’s degree. His father served as the chief of campus police, and his great-grandfather was...

Waheed Uddin, a professor of civil engineering and director of the Center for Advanced Infrastructure Technology, has died, according to a university spokesman.  The university confirmed Uddin’s death but did not release a cause of death. Uddin received a Ph.D....

Six arrests were made in Oxford on Friday for procuring prostitution as apart of a joint undercover human trafficking investigation, according to a statement from Mississippi Attorney General’s Office and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation Special Victims Unit.  The Mississippi...

While Mississippi has reported roughly 130,000 of the 11.2 million positive COVID-19 cases in the United States since the pandemic began, the University of Mississippi has not seen an increase recently.  There are currently 20 active student cases at the...

Gov. Tate Reeves said on Thursday that if President-elect Joe Biden introduced a nationwide lockdown in an attempt to slow down the coronavirus, Mississippi would not participate.  Reeves made this comment in a COVID-19 briefing live streamed on Facebook, referring...

Class of 2021 seniors are raising money to establish the UM Inclusive Excellence Retention Fund with the Center for Inclusion and Cross Cultural Engagement. The fund will provide non-recurring grants to students who actively promote inclusion, diversity, awareness and respect. ...

Political science professor Conor Dowling discussed the results of the 2020 presidential election and what the next four years will mean for college-aged students at the third and final Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors Convocation on Tuesday.  Dowling said the election...

On Nov. 7, major news networks called the presidential election to an end with the results favoring former Vice President Joe Biden. However, President Donald Trump has yet to concede, instead filing lawsuits in key battleground states Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan,...

Over the past four months, leaders of the Associated Student Body, the Black Student Union, the university chapter of the NAACP and other student organizations have regularly met with Chancellor Glenn Boyce to discuss the problems they see at the...