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The Lafayette County Board of Supervisors decided on Monday, Oct. 20 to table the vote to rezone 40.1 acres on Mississippi Highway 328 from A-1 Rural to I-2 Heavy Industrial for a proposed asphalt plant until their next meeting on...

Next spring, Republican primary voters will find an alternative to U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith on the ballot. Dr. Sarah Adlakha, a physician, author and real estate developer, is mounting a primary challenge to the incumbent. Adlakha says Hyde-Smith represents the...

Local developer JW McCurdy wants to build a hot mix asphalt plant eight miles south of Oxford and three miles east of Taylor, Miss. He is facing one big hurdle — the proposed site for the facility must be rezoned...

Turning Point USA announced via Instagram Wednesday that Vice President JD Vance and Charlie Kirk’s wife, Erika Kirk, will speak at the University of Mississippi on Wednesday, Oct. 29 as part of the “This is the Turning Point Tour.”  Before...

University of Mississippi faculty and staff members marched in the Pink on Parade Walk to show support for breast cancer prevention and screening on Wednesday. Chancellor Glenn Boyce met participants of the march in front of the Lyceum to begin...

The Center for Practical Ethics hosted a discussion regarding Christopher Columbus on Monday, Oct. 13, at the Jan and Lawrence Farrington Gallery in Bryant Hall. Associate Professor of Anthropology Marcos Mendoza and Associate Professor of Colonial Latin American History Jesse...

Reenva Evers-Everette, the daughter of Medgar Evers; R.J. Morgan; a University of Mississippi School of Journalism and New Media associate professor and instructor of JOUR 350: “Bob Dylan and the South and Jerry Mitchell, a Mississippi Today investigative reporter, discussed...

The Mississippi Department of Education allocated more than $2.9 million to continue the Mississippi Teacher Residency Program (MTR) last month for institutions across the state. For the first time, this list of institutions includes the University of Mississippi, which is...

Adya Praveen has lived in three different countries and multiple states, but Oxford has cemented itself as her home. Just as she chose to attend the University of Mississippi, Ole Miss chose her as its 2025 Homecoming Queen. Praveen, a...

Long before Ryan Augustine was a Homecoming hopeful awaiting results from the University of Mississippi student body’s vote for Mr. Ole Miss last Tuesday, he was a high school senior sitting in a Panera Bread with an admissions counselor. Augustine’s...