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Mississippi attorney general clears Senatobia police officer who shot, killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley

Mississippi’s attorney general says a Senatobia officer’s fatal shooting of toddler Kohen Wiley was justified, while questions about evidence remain.
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Oxford, Chick-fil-A Team Up to Provide Masks From Double Decker T-Shirts

Visit Oxford, along with the city of Oxford and Oxford’s Chick-Fil-A will distribute face coverings to help accommodate the City’s ordinance in response to...

Unprecedented Oxford School Year Comes to a Close May 8

By Alyssa Schnugg News editor alyssa.schnugg@hottytoddy.com The 2019-2020 school year was one that students, parents and faculty won't soon forget. Distance learning became a household word and parents...

Bonnie Brown: Q&A with Oxford Local, Bettye Galloway

Bettye Galloway is an Oxford icon, a woman of immense talent and accomplishment.  Yet, so humble.  Her reflections on her childhood in Lafayette County...

Cathead Makes Major Gift to Southern Foodways Alliance

The Southern Foodways Alliance at the University of Mississippi has received a major gift from the founders of Mississippi-based Cathead Distillery, whose efforts during...

UM Chancellor’s Message on Upcoming Fall Semester

Dear students, faculty and staff, The upheaval wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the daily rhythms of a typically spectacular spring in Oxford, and...

Oxford Leaders Pass Resolution Allowing Some Nonessential Businesses to Open Wednesday

By Alyssa Schnugg News editor alyssa.schnugg@hottytoddy.com Many of Oxford's businesses can reopen Wednesday morning after the Oxford Board of Aldermen voted to put the city's reopening plan...

Oxford Schools May Get Less ‘Antiquated’ Dress Code

By Alyssa Schnugg News editor alyssa.schnugg@hottytoddy.com When, and if, Oxford's children return to school in August, they may have a new, albeit less antiquated dress code to...

No Paper Residency Documents Needed for Returning OSD Students

By Alyssa Schnugg News editor alyssa.schnugg@hottytoddy.com Parents with children already attending Oxford School District schools will no longer have to provide paper documents to prove residency when...

OPD: Businesses, Customers Complying With Mask Mandate

By Alyssa Schnugg News editor alyssa.schnugg@hottytoddy.com With just a few days to prepare, most Oxford businesses were ready to enforce the city's latest mandate that all employees...

23 Tested Friday at UMMC COVID-19 One-Day Test Site in Oxford

By Alyssa Schnugg News editor alyssa.schnugg@hottytoddy.com Twenty-three people took advantage of free COVID-19 testing in Oxford on Friday, according to the University of Mississippi Medical Center. UMMC has...
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