For lawmakers, Jan. 1, 2014, is a monumental date looming in the ever-nearing future. That date is when the majority of the measures under the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare as many Mississippians refer to it, will take effect. Among other things, this date marks the deadline for state lawmakers to come up with their own health insurance exchange programs and have them...

A room where the children play with therapists The Child Advocacy Play Therapy Institute (CAPTI), now located in the new Insight Park at The University of Mississippi, is a mental health counseling institute that provides services for children, adolescents and adults coping with emotional stress and developmental difficulties. The center consists of three branches: play...

Your low-cost fun is here this weekend. For its third year, the Fiber Arts Festival will open its exhibit hall at 2 p.m. Friday in the Powerhouse. A $1 donation gets you into the exhibit hall, demonstration areas and the kids’ programs. Friday evening at 6 p.m., publisher, designer and author Shannon Okey will give a talk entitled “Knitwear as Fashion —...

The University of Mississippi’s Crisis Action Team (CAT) continues to increase emergency preparedness and use social media to make Ole Miss a safe campus. CAT is composed of five people on campus: Emergency Management Coordinator Jim Windham, Dean of Students Sparky Reardon, Chief of Police Calvin Sellers, Chief Communications Officer Tom Eppes and Associate Provost...

For many students, the difference between going to college and working after high school can depend on the Federal Pell Grant Program. University of Mississippi freshman David Miller of Clinton is grateful for the program. He is the youngest of three in a family in which the mother is the sole financial provider. Miller said he knew that if he wanted an education, he was...

Richard Barnes, Leonard B. Melvin Distinguished Lecturer and professor at The University of Mississippi School of Law, was killed in a car accident Jan. 22 while traveling between Conway, Arkansas, and Little Rock. Preliminary reports issued by Arkansas State Police indicate that Barnes crossed the median of Interstate 40 and collided with an oncoming tractor trailer. Barnes...

After a 55-year wait, the University of Mississippi School of Medicine will now have an exclusive building for its growing classrooms on The University of Mississippi Medical Center campus in Jackson. Courtesy Ole Miss CommunicationsAn illustration of the new University of Mississippi Medical Center being built in Jackson Mississippi House lawmakers approved a bill on...

File Photo (Jared Burleson/The Daily Mississippian)Governor Phil Bryant Gov. Phil Bryant declared 2013 the year to hire veterans, and in conjunction, the Mississippi Department of Employment Security and Workforce Investment Network job centers are assisting an estimated 28,000 Mississippi veterans to return to civilian life and regular employment.   Mississippi Gov....

Holding Hands, a local thrift store in Oxford, aims to employ as many people with disabilities as possible.   Angelina Mazzanti | The Daily MississippianHolding Hands Resale Shop Located across the street from Walmart at 2618 West Oxford Loop, Holding Hands Resale Shop is much more than the average thrift store. Opened by Donna Howard Jan. 2, the store aims to employ...

Richard Barnes, a professor at the University of Mississippi School of Law, was killed in a car accident at 9:38 a.m. on January 22 between Conway, Ark. and Little Rock. According to a preliminary report from the Arkansas State Police, the professor’s Subaru crossed the median, driving east on Interstate 40, and struck the oncoming vehicle. Barnes was pronounced...