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David Sanders, a computational physicist and research scientist in the University of Mississippi Physics Department, looks through a telescope in Kennon Observatory on Sunday night. UM students and Oxford families were offered a cloudless nighttime view of the Moon, Jupiter,...

U.S. Senate candidate David Baria spent time in Oxford on Friday morning to appear on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” as it aired live from Boure. David Baria. Photo courtesy: Wikipedia Later in the day, Baria sat down with The Daily Mississippian...

An unidentified driver struck an Ole Miss student walking on campus late Friday night in a hit-and-run incident now under investigation by University Police. The pedestrian was severely injured after being struck in the hit-and-run around 2 a.m. on Saturday...

Oxford police are investigating reports of shots fired near the Ole Miss campus on Saturday night. The university utilized its text message alert system to update students on the developing incident, which occurred during the football game versus Alabama. According...

Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” spoke to a crowded auditorium on Friday night at the Gertrude C. Ford Center. Scarborough and Brzezinski discussed the state of journalism and politics during the Trump administration with award-winning authors...

Enrollment at the University of Mississippi has now dropped for two consecutive years across the university’s regional campuses and medical center. There were 23,780 students enrolled at the university during fall 2017 compared to 23,258 in fall 2018 — a...

State Sen. Chris McDaniel hosted a town hall at the Oxford Conference Center on Thursday night, where about 50 voters asked McDaniel questions regarding Confederate monuments, a lack of conservative professors at Ole Miss and McDaniel’s thoughts on immigration. U.S....

It’s 5 a.m. on the Friday before the first home game of the year in Oxford. Long before the 10-acre patch of tailgating Valhalla is engulfed in a sea of reds and blues, of trampling feet and candelabras, of fans...

Campaign season for the university’s annual personality elections opened on Sept. 4 as students began campaigning for the titles of Mr. and Miss Ole Miss and other homecoming court positions like Homecoming Queen, Homecoming Maids and campus favorites. During the...

University Police assisted Mississippi Alcoholic Beverage Control in arresting a student on campus between classes on Aug. 28 but will handle similar arrest warrants differently in the future. University police and ABC officers waited outside of a Political Science 101...