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The University of Mississippi installed the solar-powered, network-connected trash cans that communicate with one another when they are full or nearing capacity in December. The 12 compacting and 13 non-compacting BigBelly garbage bins are strategically located in high-traffic waste areas,...

More than a month after The Mississippi Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning took the unusual step of discussing whether to grant Professor James Thomas tenure, the board released minutes detailing the two-hour closed session in which...

The Supreme Court is throwing out the murder conviction and death sentence for a black man in Mississippi because of a prosecutor's efforts to keep African Americans off the jury. The defendant already has been tried six times and now...

The Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning discussed potential chancellor candidates’ ability to recruit students and manage multiple campuses at its first listening session with University of Mississippi Medical Center students, faculty and alumni. Though no students...

The University of Mississippi Chancellor Search Advisory Committee held its first meeting this morning at the Inn at Ole Miss. The meeting began with each member of the committee saying a few things about what they would like to see...

In the newest development in the search for Ole Miss’s 18th chancellor, the Board of Trustees of the Institutions of Higher Learning released their 39-member panel on June 7 that will make up the Campus Search Advisory Committee. According to...

An employee at Who Dat’s Drive-Thru has been fired after giving a customer a receipt that contained a racially offensive description. Alexia Washington, a University of Mississippi student, visited the drive-through daiquiri bar on June 7. After receiving her order,...

Lawmakers have earmarked $850,000 for a tuition-charging University of Mississippi preschool as they struggled to find money to expand other preschools statewide. The Clarion Ledger reports the Willie Price Learning Lab got the money between 2016 and 2019. Gov. Phil Bryant...

The Robert C. Khayat Law Center hosted a visitation for Thad Cochran on Sunday. Cochran, who represented the state of Mississippi in Congress for over 40 years, died last week at the age of 81.

Former U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran, who served seven terms and used seniority to steer billions of dollars to his home state of Mississippi, has died. He was 81. Cochran’s final chief of staff, Brad White, said Cochran died Thursday at...