Former Ole Miss student gets six months for hanging noose around James Meredith statue
September 18, 2015adminNewsComments Off on Former Ole Miss student gets six months for hanging noose around James Meredith statue
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — A former University of Mississippi student who admitted helping place a noose on a statue of a civil rights activist is going to prison.
WTVA-TV reports a federal judge Thursday in Oxford sentenced Graeme Phillip Harris to six months in prison beginning Jan. 4, and 12 months’ supervised release. Harris’ lawyer argued he didn’t deserve jail time.
Harris pleaded guilty in June to a misdemeanor charge of using a threat of force to intimidate African-American students and employees. Prosecutors say he and two other former students placed a noose on the statue of James Meredith, a black man who integrated Ole Miss amid rioting in 1962.
A second man, Austin Reed Edenfield, had been scheduled to plead guilty Wednesday. That hearing was postponed. The third former student has not been charged.
October 26, 2015adminSportsComments Off on AP Top 25 college football poll: Ole Miss moves up, Mississippi State returns
(AP) Utah dropped from the ranks of the unbeaten and so did Florida State. The two losses led to a shake-up in The Associated Press’ Top 25 college football poll. Ohio State (8-0) strengthened its […]
June 10, 2014adminSportsComments Off on Ole Miss headed to College World Series after 10-4 victory over Louisiana-Lafayette
LAFAYETTE, Louisiana (AP) — Mississippi’s long wait is over. Pinch-hitter Holt Perdzock’s double in the ninth inning sparked a four-run rally and the Rebels ended a 42-year College World Series drought by punching their ticket […]
Mississippi football coach Hugh Freeze has received a one-year contract extension and a $500,000 raise, increasing his base salary to $2 million per season after leading the Rebels to a bowl appearance in his first season.
Freeze was hired last December and signed an incentive-laden contract that included a $1.5 million base salary. His new contract lasts through 2016 and includes a $100,000 bonus per Southeastern Conference win, beginning with the second victory of the season. […]