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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,...

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...