A former Alamo Heights high school football player and college student died in a boating accident last week in Mexico, his family announced.

A new historical marker has been unveiled in the hometown of civil rights icon James Meredith.

In the final hours before University of Mississippi student Jimmy “Jay” Lee disappeared, sexually explicit Snapchat messages were exchanged between his account and the account of the man now on trial in his killing.

A trial has begun for a man charged in the killing of a University of Mississippi student who was well-known in the local LGBTQ+ community.

Condom usage is down among teens and young adults in the U.S. Medical advancements, a fading fear of contracting HIV and widely varying degrees of sex education in high schools all contribute to the trend.

A college town in Mississippi temporarily closed a street after a delivery truck dropped dozens of cases of beer.

Israel-Hamas war demonstrations at the University of Mississippi turned ugly when one counter-protester appeared to make monkey noises and gestures at a Black woman.

The University of Mississippi is paying tribute to James Meredith 60 years after integration.

Mississippi is ditching a state song that’s based on the campaign tune of a former governor who pledged to preserve segregation.

Mississippi is on the verge of retiring a state song with racist roots, two years after it surrendered a Confederate-themed state flag.

A civil rights attorney who fought to desegregate Southern schools in the 1960s and was pushed out of his University of Mississippi teaching job amid uproar over his work on behalf of Black clients has died.

Today is Wednesday, Sept. 30, the 274th day of 2020. On this date:In 1777, the Continental Congress — forced to flee in the face of advancing British forces — moved to York, Pennsylvania. In 1955, actor James Dean, 24, was killed in a two-car collision near Cholame, California. Rock singer Trey Anastasio is 56. Rock musician Robby Takac (Goo Goo Dolls) is 56.

FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2019 file photo a Confederate soldier monument stands at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss. A Confederate monument thats been a divisive symbol at the University of Mississippi was being removed Tuesday from a prominent spot on the Oxford campus. Its not going to create a shrine to the Confederacy, University of Mississippi Chancellor Glenn Boyce told The Associated Press on June 24 at the state Capitol. Since 2016, the university has installed plaques to provide historical context about the Confederate monument and about slaves who built some campus buildings before the Civil War. A plaque installed at the base of the Confederate statue says such monuments were built across the South decades after the Civil War, at a time that aging Confederate veterans were dying.

(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey told a U.S. Senate committee Wednesday that there needs to be a uniform federal law to regulate the compensation of college athletes instead of a series of state-level versions with differing requirements. Sankey was part of a panel discussing the potential impact of allowing athletes to profit from the use of their name, image or likeness (NIL). It would be difficult and confusing, Sankey said when asked about managing various state laws among the leagues 14 member schools. Knowing the competition within my 11 states, I can foresee quickly the other 10 one-upping each other. Former Miami and NFL player Eric Winston also testified with University of Baltimore law professor Dionne Koller.