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  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....

The Oxford Police Department will warn new and returning students about city ordinances they should be aware of as they arrive for the fall semester. Officers said they have noticed in previous years that each fall, as students leave dormitories...

Uber Eats launched in Oxford on Thursday, offering food delivery from local restaurants and establishing itself as a direct competitor to Landshark Delivery, a locally owned delivery service. The Oxford launch comes in the same week Uber Eats began offering...

When student parking pass sales opened in mid-July, many students noticed a jump in prices from the previous year. Commuter and residential parking passes rose from $200 to $210 and $300 to $325, respectively, for the 2018-19 school year. That’s...

The Ole Miss Athletics Foundation is launching a new tailgating experience for game days this fall. This seemingly all-inclusive tailgating will provide game day attendees with a 10-by-20 tent, tables, chairs, TVs and more at the north end zone plaza...