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Brandon Theesfeld, a former student in the School of Business Administration, has been charged with the murder of Alexandria “Ally” Kostial. On Tuesday morning, he had his first appearance before Judge Andrew Howorth in circuit court. Theesfeld was suspended by the university, according to a university...

The vice chairman of the Mississippi Lottery Corporation says he’s interested in becoming chancellor of the University of Mississippi. In response...

A routine patrol of Harmontown, a small town north of Oxford, led a Lafayette County deputy to find the body of a female Ole Miss student Saturday morning....

The National Transportation Safety Board has released a preliminary report of its findings regarding the July 6 plane crash on The Ole Miss Golf Course...

Family, friends, faculty and former students were moved to tears on Wednesday as loved ones gave their accounts of historian and professor emeritus David...

David G. Sansing saw the bigger picture. His list of accolades is long, but the moment those close to him particularly remember his pride swelling was...

This spring, Mariel Spencer, a 2019 UM graduate, became the first student to graduate through the Accelerated Law Program. The Accelerated Law Program...

Mississippi legislators are making “impossible burgers” a little more impossible to obtain for vegans and vegetarians in the state after passing Senate Bill 2922 earlier this month. The bill prevents companies from labeling plant-based or insect-based foods as meat products. Makers of these “meatless meat” products could now face a hefty penalty for marketing...

After receiving a patent for a preventative vaccine to treat poison ivy was given to them last month, university researchers are one step closer to their final product, something that’s almost 30 years in the making. The New York Times reported in 1992 that Mahmoud ElSohly, a UM professor of pharmaceutics, and E. Sue Watson had isolated the variants of urushiol oil,...

David Sansing, a professor emeritus of history at the University of Mississippi and author of several books, has died at age 86. Sansing fell Friday...