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Six years after grave loss, the Ole Miss community is coming together to build a culture of care.  In 2013, William Magee died of an accidental overdose; he was 23 years old. Magee was a student in the Sally McDonnell...

The Board of Trustees of Institutions of Higher Learning held their second in-person listening session on Thursday to gain input from different groups in the UM community in their search for the next chancellor. The IHL held the first listening...

Gail Brown, president of MS Critterz, the organization contracted by the city of Oxford and Lafayette County to run the Oxford animal shelter, has a history of racist Facebook posts dating back to 2014.  Brown used a litany of racial...

Mississippi, often a punchline in state-to-state comparisons, has the highest vaccination rate among school-age children. Before being admitted to any child care facility in the state, Mississippi residents are required to receive seven separate vaccines, giving Mississippi some of the...

Over 128 Division I schools and hundreds of others took the field last weekend, signaling that after a nearly eight-month hiatus, college football is finally back.  Gambling on college football is, too. Some Ole Miss students are using websites and...

Brandon Theesfeld, the 21-year-old former University of Mississippi student, was indicted by a grand jury on a capital murder charge on Friday.  “ did unlawfully, willfully and feloniously and without authority of law and with or without deliberate design to...

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...