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A Mississippi organization is encouraging state residents to participate in Equal Pay Day on Tuesday after equal pay protection failed during the past legislative session. The Mississippi Women’s Economic Security Initiative turns its eyes to April 10 to further its...

Monday morning, all Ole Miss students were notified of an active tuberculosis case on campus, with the infection possibly having been spread to an isolated number of students. The university is working with the state health department to “identify, notify,...

The university recently released a 2017 Pay Equity and Advancement Report through the Chancellor’s Commission on the Status of Women at the University of Mississippi. Including data gathered from 2007 to 2015, the report outlines the existence of a pay...

A portion of Chucky Mullins Drive running from south of Highway 6 to Old Taylor Road will be closed April 16 through sometime in January. The Oxford Police Department tweeted the news Friday; however, the closure did not originate from...

The 2018 University of Mississippi Hall of Fame. Photo courtesy Thomas Graning/Ole Miss Communications Ole Miss recognized 200 students as part of the annual Who’s Who Among Students during a ceremony at the Gertrude C. Ford Center on Friday. Out...

Students in the Meek School’s Student Media Center won 11 awards in the annual Louisiana-Mississippi Associated Press contest for college journalists. The five first-place awards were given to NewsWatch Ole Miss; Lana Ferguson; Alana Mitius; Clara Turnage and Malachi Shinault;...

Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi is constructing a new roundabout on South Lamar Boulevard as part of the infrastructure being added to its newly built facility. Even though construction could cause minor delays in traffic, hospital administration said the construction is...

MEMPHIS — The eyes of the world were on the balcony in front of Room 306 at the Lorraine Motel on Wednesday just as they were 50 years ago when the shot that ended the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s...

MEMPHIS -- Calvary Episcopal Church in Memphis participated in the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. by holding a “Service of Remembrance and Reconciliation” and unveiling a historical marker. The historical marker contextualized Confederate...

Traveling 367 miles from Atlanta to Memphis by car would take almost six hours. By bus, it would take almost nine. But on foot, it’s taken Terence Lester a month. Lester marching between the two cities against poverty and in...