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A prospective student with over 184,000 followers on TikTok posted a racist video with stereotypes about Chinese people. When students reported the video to the Office of Student Conduct and the Office of Admissions, the students were all sent the...

In an executive session that lasted almost two and a half hours, the Board of Aldermen voted Thursday to furlough 135 city employees as a cost-cutting measure after the city of Oxford has experienced fiscal deficits as a result of...

Since doctors confirmed the first cases of the coronavirus in the United States, health care workers, hospital administrators and politicians have been scrambling to procure ventilators to help COVID-19 patients who experience severe respiratory illness. In response to concerns of...

The university announced Friday morning that it would refund students who paid for university housing, meal plans or parking fees in the spring semester. There will be no refund for tuition, nonresident fees or activity fees, because of guidance from...

Gov. Tate Reeves announced a statewide stay-at-home order on Wednesday afternoon, making Mississippi the 34th state to do so in response to the spread of COVID-19. For weeks, Reeves resisted local and national pressures to issue an order, arguing that...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7nmIlOEIFc&feature=youtu.be Sara Caroline Bridgers tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday morning, making her one of the first UM students to report contracting the virus. This week, her symptoms have caused her and her family to put their lives on hold...

The mayor and Board of Aldermen passed a resolution, effective immediately, ordering citizens to stay in their homes except for essential needs at a special meeting on Sunday evening amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Not following the order is a misdemeanor,...

Oxford’s city government has changed almost every operation in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The scramble to find solutions and preventive measures range from sanitizing parking meters twice a day to plans for drive-thru testing at Baptist Memorial Hospital. “It...

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, students may not have to worry about this semester’s grades counting toward their cumulative GPAs. On Monday, university students are set to begin the remainder of the spring semester in online courses. However, on Saturday afternoon,...

The first death in a Mississippi COVID-19 case was announced by the Mississippi Department of Health on Thursday. The individual was a male 60-65 years old from Hancock County with chronic underlying conditions. He died in a Louisiana hospital, according...