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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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UM Students to Perform with Malpaso Dance Company

The Cuba-based Malpaso Dance Company will perform this weekend at the University of Mississippi's Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts, combining Cuban...

PSC Should Deny $1 Billion to Companies Behind Kemper Boondoggle

The final hearings for the failed Kemper power plant are under way this week at the Mississippi Public Service Commission (PSC). The billion-dollar question...

Cochran, Wicker Endorse R.D. James to Lead Corps of Engineers

U.S. Senators Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) today said Senate confirmation of R. D. James to be Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil...

False Pretense, Improper Parking and More in Today's Crime Report

Oxford police responded to the following calls: Two alarms, animal complaint, auto burglary, burglary-building, careless driving, two disturbing the peace, embezzlement, false pretense, fire department...

OPD Arrests Man for Alleged Embezzlement

Oxford Police Department (OPD) served Charles Rainey, 46 of Oxford, with an arrest warrant Wednesday for an alleged embezzlement. A complaint was filed Tuesday stating...

Captain Stacy Bare: From PTSD to Ultimate Redemption

Stacy Bare’s road to Ole Miss was paved with a mix of chance, fate and the intangible lure of a special place. It parallels...

Thursday's Top Tune Throwback: Culture Club's "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me"

One of my favorite songs from the early 1980s was written and recorded by the English new wave band Culture Club. Led by George "Boy George"...

University Police Chief Leaving UM to Return to Indiana

Tim Potts, chief of the University of Mississippi Police Department, is returning to his native state to lead the Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne...

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...

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,...
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