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This year's Rebel Chefs Cooking Camp at the Institute of Child Nutrition aims to teach rising 6th, 7th, and 8th graders advanced techniques and fundamentals of cooking and baking, kitchen safety, food preparation, local produce and nutrition.  “Cooking is my passion...

The Oxford Board of Aldermen held a fifth public hearing Tuesday night on an ordinance aimed to reduce underage drinking and impose new safety regulations for event venues and for businesses that sell alcohol. After several citizens voiced concerns over...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The federal government has reopened its investigation into the slaying of Emmett Till, the black teenager whose brutal killing in Mississippi shocked the world and helped inspire the civil rights movement more than 60 years ago....

In this corner of Mississippi, the hands of Parisian-influenced chefs dig into the harvest of “it’s-in-my-blood” farmers. This culinary crossroads is a product of the people who plant, produce and prepare the foods that come from farm to fork every...

“No one is an island unto themselves.” The Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College functions on this idea, so it makes sense that its dean does, too. In the last few years, he’s found a hobby that embodies that same sentiment....

Social media has become an increasingly important entity for businesses hoping to bridge the rural and urban gap between farmers and consumers. Social media’s power in agriculture lies in its ability to connect others, through building relationships and developing a...

The Daily Mississippian: What’s your position at the farm? Daniel Zimmanck: Field manager of Yokna Bottoms Farm. DM: What are you growing right now? Zimmanck: Sweet potatoes, squash, purple hull peas, green beans, dragon’s tongue, rattlesnake. Those are all beans....

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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Two former employees of a Mississippi veterans home have been charged with manslaughter in the 2017 death of a 93-year-old World War II veteran. Police charged 25-year-old Jeanne Dunn of Oxford and 41-year-old Bridget Austin of...

A lawsuit alleging that data had been illegally obtained from the U.K. and transferred to the data research department at the University of Mississippi has been dismissed by a Hinds County Chancery Court judge. The lawsuit was filed against Big Data...