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“No one is an island unto themselves.” The Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College functions on this idea, so it makes sense that its dean does, too. In the last few years, he’s found a hobby that embodies that same sentiment....

Social media has become an increasingly important entity for businesses hoping to bridge the rural and urban gap between farmers and consumers. Social media’s power in agriculture lies in its ability to connect others, through building relationships and developing a...

The Daily Mississippian: What’s your position at the farm? Daniel Zimmanck: Field manager of Yokna Bottoms Farm. DM: What are you growing right now? Zimmanck: Sweet potatoes, squash, purple hull peas, green beans, dragon’s tongue, rattlesnake. Those are all beans....

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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Two former employees of a Mississippi veterans home have been charged with manslaughter in the 2017 death of a 93-year-old World War II veteran. Police charged 25-year-old Jeanne Dunn of Oxford and 41-year-old Bridget Austin of...

A lawsuit alleging that data had been illegally obtained from the U.K. and transferred to the data research department at the University of Mississippi has been dismissed by a Hinds County Chancery Court judge. The lawsuit was filed against Big Data...

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to uphold the third version of President Donald Trump’s travel ban, which suspends the issuing of immigrant and non-immigrant visas to citizens of Libya, Iran, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, North Korea and Venezuela. Student...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant on Friday named an attorney who leads a conservative legal group to be the new state auditor. White is an alumnus of the University of Mississippi, where he was a Truman Scholar,...

Falling to the stage beneath her, Miss Mississippi 2018 pointed to the sky in celebration as a crown was placed on her head. After three years of standing on the Vicksburg Convention Center stage, Ole Miss Most Beautiful Asya Branch...

The Oxford Board of Aldermen presented the latest draft of the proposed “Downtown District” ordinance on Tuesday during the ordinance’s fourth public hearing. Aldermen discussed changes that had been made since Monday’s meeting with local business owners. The latest version...