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7 Funny Things Southerners Say About Cold Weather

Judging the weather based on numerical temperatures is boring. Besides, if it’s 35 or 40 degrees, who can tell the difference? Southerners love a...

Lafayette Supervisors Pass Shelter-in-Place Resolution

By Alyssa Schnugg News editor alyssa.schnugg@hottytoddy.com The Lafayette County Board of Supervisors passed a Shelter-in-Place resolution Friday morning recognizing the Executive Order signed by Gov. Tate Reeves...

Investigation Ongoing in Recent Death of Lafayette County Man

The Lafayette County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the death of a local man found early this morning. The sheriff's department received a call at 7:30...

Oxford Police Cite Three for Illegal Gathering

By Alyssa Schnugg News editor alyssa.schnugg@hottytoddy.com One local restaurant and two individuals have already been cited for illegal gathering by the Oxford Police Department. According to Oxford Police...

Ole Miss Student Journalists Produce Weekly COVID-19 News Roundup

The impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on Oxford and Ole Miss is constantly evolving, but student broadcast journalists at the University of Mississippi are...

United Way Awards Grant to ICM for COVID-19 Relief

By Kurt Brummett Executive Director of United Way of Oxford-Lafayette County kurt@unitedwayoxfordms.org The United Way of Oxford-Lafayette County (UWOLC) has awarded $10,835.55 to Interfaith Compassion Ministry (ICM)...

LCSD Arrests Three in Unrelated Assault Cases

The Lafayette County Sheriff's Department made three separate arrests recently in unrelated felony cases that all involved assaulting their victims with either their hands,...

Appeals Court: Mississippi May be Tried Over Education Funding

By Jerry Mitchell Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting Mississippi may stand trial on allegations the state broke its promise to provide “a uniform system of free...

GOAT First Basemen Under Head Coach Mike Bianco

By Adam Brown and Jeff Roberson  adam.brown@hottytoddy.com; wjrobers@olemiss.edu Ole Miss fans, it has been a long couple of weeks with no sports for the red and...

Obit: Cooper Manning’s Mother-in-Law Passes Away After COVID-19 Complications

Editor's Note: This obituary was originally published in The Times-Picayune April 2, 2020. Dot Heidingsfelder, a lifelong resident of New Orleans, was born on June...

UM Moves More Mental Health Services Online

By Anna Margaret Foster Journalism student smfoster@go.olemiss.edu As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases continues to spike and in-person contact remains strictly limited for the foreseeable future,...