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Patrick Stewart, ‘Star Trek’ and ‘X-Men’ Star Who Filmed in Mississippi, Dies at 86

Patrick Stewart, known for Star Trek and X-Men, died at 86. His Mississippi connections included filming Logan and narrating a Delta State planetarium show.
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Former Mr. Ole Miss Robert Perry Opens Up the New York Stock Exchange

Robert Perry had an incredibly exciting day this past Friday as he and his fellow equity partners with American Gaming Systems (AGS) joined the...

Wicker Pushes Bipartisan Bill to Expand Broadband Access in Rural Areas

U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., have introduced legislation to promote precision agriculture and rural broadband deployment. The “Precision Agriculture Connectivity Act...

Austin's Shoes Offers Hard-to-Find Brands and Styles

Known as a footwear fixture for many years in Corinth, Austin's Shoes has opened a new location in Oxford. The Oxford store, located at 2202...

OSD Names Teachers and Administrator of the Year

Martha Mary Crowe of Oxford Intermediate School (OIS) was named Oxford School District's Teacher of the Year in a school board meeting on Monday. Crowe,...

Steve Vassallo: The 10 Greatest U.S. Presidents

With President Donald Trump's first State of the Union Address just a week away, I reached out to my inner circle of historians to...

OSD Will Shorten Academic School Year, Thanks to Snow Days

Members of the Oxford School District decided to shorten the 2017-2018 academic school year by one day after icy road conditions caused all schools...

New UM Scholarship Honors Randy Noble

The Noble family name is an institution at the University of Mississippi. Nobles have walked the university's historic halls, studied in its classrooms and...

Treat Your Valentine to Dance Lessons through UM Communiversity

The start of a new year is always a good prompt to reflect on how you can try something different, form new habits or...

UM Alumnus Makes Forbes '30 Under 30' List of Leaders

As technological advances continue to rapidly turn yesterday's fiction into today's facts, a University of Mississippi alumnus finds himself at the forefront of the...

Second Law of Thermodynamics Topic for January Science Cafe

The second law of thermodynamics is the topic for a monthly public science forum organized by the University of Mississippi Department of Physics and...
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