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Dr. Cheryl A. Justice recently graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS.

A grand jury in Oxford, Miss., has indicted the daughter-in-law of Collierville Mayor Stan Joyner on a charge of embezzlement.

Wanderlust is just weeks away, and joining the likes of Michael Franti , The Honey Brothers and Amanda Palmer onstage at the 3-day health and wellness festival are Bay Area boys, Rogue Wave.

Written by EIGS OXFORD, MS -The University of Mississippi's Enterprise for Innovative Geospatial Solutions is pleased to announce the release of a special, magazine-style publication about geospatial technology.

In North Mississippi there's a lot of great music coming out of little recording studio located about halfway between Oxford and Batesville, Mississippi in Panola County called Coles Point Studio.

Houston Nutt wasn't quite sure what he was getting himself into -- at least in the beginning.

Less than a year after the debut of the community's public transit service, transportation officials are ready to expand the popular bus service.

Sarah Palin would no doubt be horrified by the idea, but there's a chance she could become the same boon to David Letterman's career that Hugh Grant was to Jay Leno's. Grant's 1995 appearance on NBC's Tonight show after a prostitution arrest, where Leno famously asked "What were you thinking?," was seen in retrospect as a turning point in the ...

Severe storms in north Mississippi brought down trees and power lines Friday, but no injuries were reported, state emergency officials said.

By JOEL McNEECE After more than five years of service in the U.S. Army, including tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, Bruce native Trumaine Foster is getting the musical career he's always dreamed of underway.

The woman in the passenger seat the night Morgan Freeman crashed a car on a rural Mississippi highway was partly to blame for the accident, the actor's attorney said Friday in court papers.

In a Thursday May 14, 2009 file photo, Morgan Freeman arrives at the "Mandela Day" awareness event in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Ted Drozdowski's Scissormen return to the Echo Lounge, 2104 C St., on Thursday, June 25.

The tour gets underway June 11 in San Diego, CA, and travels through 19 cities during a month-long trek that concludes July 11 in Oxford, MS.

Political newcomers were vying for many of the mayor's offices as voters went to the polls today in several of the state's major cities.

The home of American authors from Faulkner to Grisham, the university town of Oxford, Mississippi is a mecca for literature lovers F IRST P OSTED J T he "cultured university town" of Oxford, Mississippi, is a mecca for writers and lovers of American literature, says Richard Grant in the Daily Telegraph .

Jake Headrick has been named head men's basketball coach at Chipola College. Headrick served as an assistant to coach Greg Heiar during the 2008-09 season and in 2006-07. Chipola president Dr.

OXFORD, Miss. - A former janitor is expected to plead guilty Thursday in federal court in Oxford in the theft of 90 pounds of marijuana from the Greenwood Police Department.

Cowboy" Jack Clement was 5 years old in 1936, the year the Works Progress Administration allocated $11,000 to the city of Memphis to build a band shell in Overton Park.

Returning lawmakers hoped to vote on a budget Tuesday, but the state capitol received special visitors.