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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Leaders of a Mississippi college town voted Tuesday to permit a gay pride parade, reversing a previous denial and moving to defuse a lawsuit alleging discrimination and free speech violations. Starkville Mayor Lynn Spruill broke a...

Associated Student Body candidates and their supporters gathered anxiously outside of the Lyceum last night to hear the executive officer election results. After the more than 4,000 votes were counted, the officers elected were Walker Abel for vice president, Jonathan...

Sen. Thad Cochran has certainly made his mark on the state of Mississippi and his alma mater, Ole Miss, during his 40 years in the U.S. Senate. And now he’s retiring. Cochran earned a psychology degree and then a law...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant is indicating he will sign a bill that would set the earliest abortion ban in the United States. Senators voted 35-14 Tuesday to pass House Bill 1510 . If the House agrees...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Longtime Republican Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, told The Associated Press on Monday that he will resign April 1 because of health problems. Cochran, who turned 80 in December, stayed...

James Meredith, the university’s first black student who enrolled in 1962, expressed a change of heart on two issues following an emotional weekend. The civil rights icon said he’s become more receptive to his statue as well as to the...

Students will have four options for the 2018-19 ASB president on tomorrow's ballot. Candidates Wister Hitt, Elam Miller, Emily Tipton and Dylan Wood announced their candidacy in February and debated publicly last Wednesday night at the Overby Center. As campaign...

More than 800 alumni registered for the 2018 Black Alumni Reunion, bringing the alumni and their friends and family back to Oxford to celebrate. The four-day weekend full of concerts, panels and galas reunited friends and highlighted the impact African-Americans...

Oxford leaders and university administrators delivered the second “State of the University” speech of the academic school year Friday afternoon at The Inn as part of the 2018 Black Alumni Reunion. Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter spoke about the university’s strategic plan...

The Black Alumni Reunion hosted a panel discussion Saturday morning highlighting alumni from different classes and generations. The Black Alumni Reunion panel gave successful alumni the chance to talk about experiences in life, at the university and after. While on...