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Everyone wants to know who the next chancellor will be, but with the search committee bound by nondisclosure agreements and many candidates not publicly speaking about their interest, it’s hard for the university community to know what’s going on. Gerard...

What happens when an entertainment lawyer from Los Angeles, an IT consultant and a financial manager  walk onto a plot of land in Taylor? For Chand Harlow, Rob Forster and Tom Alexander, it’s Wonderbird Spirits, the only grain-to-glass gin distillery...

At the fourth annual UM Tech Summit in the Ford Center, U.S. Senator and Senate Commerce Committee Chair Roger Wicker said that the university should now focus on becoming more prominent in STEM expansion.  The speakers included Wicker, Comcast Senior...

Oxford’s Walmart is taking preventative measures, namely increased security, to improve the safety of community members following shootings in Southaven and El Paso, Texas, Walmart stores in recent months. Though Walmart employees declined to comment, Oxford Police Department’s interim police...

Plans to relocate the Confederate monument to the Confederate cemetery have been sent to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH), Interim Chancellor Larry Sparks announced Wednesday afternoon. After five and a half months, the ball has left the...

One day after Mississippi Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves defeated Judge Bill Waller in the Republican primary runoff, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jim Hood was in Oxford to meet with business owners and residents about his campaign.  Standing in front of the...

In an email to students, faculty and staff, Interim Chancellor Larry Sparks announced that plans to relocate the Confederate monument to the Confederate cemetery are complete. The university submitted their plans and drawings to the Mississippi Department of Archives and...

A report of votes being changed by a malfunctioning voting machine in Oxford on Tuesday’s Republican gubernatorial runoff has been confirmed by Circuit Clerk Baretta Mosley.  The malfunction happened at the Oasis Church polling location in Oxford’s fourth precinct.  “As...

Ajit Pai, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, and David Cohen, senior executive vice president and chief diversity officer for Comcast Corp., will join U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker on Wednesday in the Ford Center for Wicker’s fourth annual tech summit. ...

On March 1, three former Ole Miss Kappa Alpha fraternity members posed for a photo with guns in front of a bullet-riddled Emmett Till memorial. The three men in the photo now face a possible Department of Justice investigation. Till,...