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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Minority Health is awarding up to $5.2 million to the University of Mississippi to support efforts to eliminate health disparities in racial and ethnic minority communities in the Mississippi Delta Region .

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About a dozen hooded Ku Klux Klan members rallied briefly at the University of Mississippi before Saturday's football game with No.

Irvin Rosenfeld, a 56-year-old stockbroker from Fort Lauderdale, Fla. will smoke his 115,000th marijuana cigarette Friday, a possible world record, and he can thank the U.S. government for his supply.

If not for his grandmother, Ryne Graham would quietly be attending his classes at the University of Mississippi and keeping his profile rather low.

While federal investigators work through old case files looking for answers to the killings of black men and women in the South during the civil rights era, FBI Civil Rights Chief Cynthia Deitle on Wednesday said the agency needs the public's help locating relatives of 36 people who were killed.

ADAMS COUNTY a ' Adams County is the latest community to receive the StormReady designation from the National Weather Service.

MISSISSIPPI'S NEW SUPERINTENDENT of education, Tom Burnham, returns to the position he held for four years in 1990s with an even more impressive dossier of experience and perspective - and with broadly enthusiastic support from the public education community and citizens who work as volunteer leaders for public education.

In fact, there have been 116 space shuttle scrubs; 72 for technical reasons and 45 for inclement weather.

In this July 30, 2009 file photograph, former Hinds County Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter enters the federal courthouse in Aberdeen, Miss.

From the forced admission of its first black student James Meredith, to a heated debate about banning the rebel flag, the University of Mississippi can't seem to escape racial controversy.

Department of Justice has provided the University of Mississippi with a three-year, $300,000 grant to develop programs to reduce domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking on college campuses.

November 10, 2009 -- Oxford, MS The Enterprise for Innovative Geospatial Solutions , housed at The University of Mississippi, is pleased to announce the launch of MARS 2009 high school GIS projects.

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As if the University of Mississippi needs more attention given to the subject, a segregationist has chimed in on the recent controversy surrounding a student chant.

The University of Mississippi will enforce a rule bars tailgaters from putting up tents before 6 p.m. on Fridays.

Tom Burnham, who led Mississippi's public school system for five years in the mid-1990s, has been chosen to return to the position.

A state Department of Education spokesman says Tom Burnham, who served as Mississippi's superintendent of education in the mid-1990s, has been chosen to return to the job.

Stephen Spruiell is a staff writer for National Review Online. The Obama administration is trying to strong-arm America's colleges and universities into complying with a bill that hasn't been signed into law yet.

Janice Carr, an employee of the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi, is planning to climb her way to the top, the top of Mount Kilimanjaro that is.