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The Mississippi Department of Archives and History is still waiting on the university to send plans to relocate the Confederate monument from the Circle to the Confederate cemetery.

Attorneys for Brandon Theesfeld and District Attorney Ben Creekmore agreed to submit Theesfeld for a psychiatric evaluation. He will be held in Lafayette County Detention Center without bond.

Lafayette County Sheriff’s Department and other police departments in Mississippi have been working with Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) since 2012 to remove people that illegally immigrate to the United States. In 2018, ICE removed an average of 65 people...

Immigration agents detained approximately 680 people during coordinated early-morning workplace raids Wednesday across Mississippi, federal authorities announced this afternoon. The operation now holds the record for “what is believed to be the largest single state immigration enforcement operation in our...

Christopher Gipson, a detective with the Magee Police Department, has been charged with a misdemeanor in connection to a gun being fired on the Square just after midnight on Tuesday.  Gipson is a detective with the Magee Police Department and...

The Oxford Police Department received reports of a gunshot fired in Rooster Blues House on the Square just after midnight on Tuesday. According to a statement from Capt. Hildon Sessums, officers responded to reports of a subject discharging a firearm...

When the head of the University of Mississippi condemned fraternity members last week for posing with guns in front of a bullet-riddled memorial to the slain 14-year-old civil rights icon Emmett Till, he defended the campus investigation and the decision...

The university’s process of reviewing an Instagram post of students standing with gunsin front of a bullet-riddled Emmett Till memorial is not over, according to a statement Interim Chancellor Larry Sparks released on Monday night. “Given that we first learned about...

Interim Chancellor Larry Sparks said in a statement released Friday afternoon that the students seen in a photo in front of a bullet-riddled Emmett Till memorial do not represent the values of the institution. Sparks said that the incident occurred...

Three University of Mississippi students have been suspended from their fraternity house and face possible investigation by the Department of Justice after posing with guns in front of a bullet-riddled sign honoring slain civil rights icon Emmett Till. One of...