On Sept. 15, Detective Lt. Jeremy Cook of the University of Mississippi Police Department graduated from the FBI National Academy program in Quantico,...

James Everett Dutschke is transported to a court hearing in Oxford Thursday morning. / (Angelina Mazzanti) BY HAWLEY MARTIN thedmnews@gmail.com U.S. Magistrate...

If someone had asked me last week who Kermit Gosnell was, I would have thought a distant, off-brand cousin of the frog Muppet. But now I know that Kermit Gosnell is accused of committing monstrous crimes, and the most terrifying part of his crimes is that the state did nothing to stop him. In a trial that began last month in Philadelphia, details began emerging about crimes...

In the wake of mass shootings such as the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting, the Aurora theater shooting and the shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, debates about gun control have come to surface once again. There has been a focus on mental health research and awareness as a means to combat violence. Both sides see an increase in research as a good thing, but anti-gun...

The Second Amendment does not protect the right to hunt; in fact, there is no right to hunt. What the Second Amendment does do is prevent the government from disarming its citizens, an act which would be a leap toward tyranny. Thus, any legislation or policy that places an undue burden on a person to own — not to buy — a firearm is unconstitutional. The key point...

The University of Mississippi is investigating a racial crime on campus. The University Police Department (UPD) said someone on Nov. 5 allegedly vandalized the truck of freshman Jamal Woods, a black liberal arts major and ROTC member at Ole Miss. The vandalism of the truck occurred after Woods moved from the Stockard residence hall to the Deaton residence hall because...