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Business leaders and political figures came together on Wednesday to discuss ways for Mississippi to move from the bottom to the top by embracing technology at the University of Mississippi’s third annual Technology Summit. Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter delivered the welcome...

Ole Miss has been named a recipient of an Arabic Flagship Program, a prestigious language curriculum that will expand the previously established Arabic language program on campus. The flagship programs are awarded by The Language Flagship, an organization established in...

On Tuesday, the Mississippi House of Representatives passed a lottery bill after initially voting against it on Monday. The bill will now be sent to the governor, who has already indicated his support for the bill. If signed into law,...

The Associated Student Body Senate unanimously passed a bill Tuesday night meant to enforce new campaign rules that some Senators view as a response to the role Greek organizations have played in past elections. Earlier that same day, Attorney General...

  State Rep. Willie Perkins Sr. speaks to other representatives after the House passed the lottery bill during a special session at the Capitol in Jackson Tuesday, August 28, 2018. Photo by Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today. Just hours after...

Efforts to memorialize the 1935 killing of Elwood Higginbottom, the seventh and last person known to be lynched in Lafayette County, continued on Tuesday night. A few dozen people lined the pews in the Tallahatchie Oxford Missionary Baptist Association church...

Zac Barnett of American Authors sings to a crowded Grove on Friday night during the Welcome Back Concert. Photo by Christian Johnson Two Ole Miss students take a break from dancing to watch the crowd during the silent disco on...

U.S. Senate candidate Mike Espy met with students and local feminist groups in Oxford this weekend before traveling to Jackson for the opening of his campaign office. Espy visited campus Friday morning for an exclusive interview with The Daily Mississippian...

Approximately 300 women, including Jill Freeze, attended the inaugural Living Out Loud Women’s Conference to worship and focus on women’s issues on Saturday at the Oxford Conference Center. Freeze joined the panel of six speakers, all women, who shared their...

Editor-in-Chief – Slade Rand Slade Rand is a senior journalism major from New Orleans. He's worked at The Daily Mississippian since his freshman year and wrote his favorite story in spring 2017 about John 'Jojo' Hermann's return to the Square....