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The Supreme Court is throwing out the murder conviction and death sentence for a black man in Mississippi because of a prosecutor's efforts to keep African Americans off the jury. The defendant already has been tried six times and now...

The Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning discussed potential chancellor candidates’ ability to recruit students and manage multiple campuses at its first listening session with University of Mississippi Medical Center students, faculty and alumni. Though no students...

The University of Mississippi Chancellor Search Advisory Committee held its first meeting this morning at the Inn at Ole Miss. The meeting began with each member of the committee saying a few things about what they would like to see...

In the newest development in the search for Ole Miss’s 18th chancellor, the Board of Trustees of the Institutions of Higher Learning released their 39-member panel on June 7 that will make up the Campus Search Advisory Committee. According to...

An employee at Who Dat’s Drive-Thru has been fired after giving a customer a receipt that contained a racially offensive description. Alexia Washington, a University of Mississippi student, visited the drive-through daiquiri bar on June 7. After receiving her order,...

Lawmakers have earmarked $850,000 for a tuition-charging University of Mississippi preschool as they struggled to find money to expand other preschools statewide. The Clarion Ledger reports the Willie Price Learning Lab got the money between 2016 and 2019. Gov. Phil Bryant...

The Robert C. Khayat Law Center hosted a visitation for Thad Cochran on Sunday. Cochran, who represented the state of Mississippi in Congress for over 40 years, died last week at the age of 81.

Former U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran, who served seven terms and used seniority to steer billions of dollars to his home state of Mississippi, has died. He was 81. Cochran’s final chief of staff, Brad White, said Cochran died Thursday at...

The mayor of Oxford says the city’s police department is now under investigation after one of its officers was charged with murder. Mayor Robyn Tannehill released a statement Tuesday saying the state attorney general’s office is investigating the department at...

Bail has been denied for a former Oxford police officer charged in the killing of a woman with whom he was romantically involved. News outlets report Circuit Judge John Gregory denied bail Friday for 38-year-old Mathew Kinne, who is charged...