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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.

UM Junior Using Experiences with Migraine to Help Others

When Delora Denney, of Picayune, was 8 years old, a neurologist diagnosed her with chronic migraine disease. She has since been hospitalized six different...

CMNH Selects Mississippi’s Children’s Miracle Champion for National Role

Aubrey Armstrong can add one more title to her resume: 2020 Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals National Champion. The state’s 2019 Champion, the 15-year-old from Oxford...

MDAH Approves UM’s Plans to Move Confederate Statue

By Alyssa Schnugg News editor alyssa.schnugg@hottytoddy.com Only one more box needs to be checked in the list of steps needed to be taken to move the Confederate...

LOU Women on the Move: Visit Oxford Director Has Plan to Get Heads in Beds

By Alyssa Schnugg News editor alyssa.schnugg@hottytoddy.com While most Oxonians have already been sold on how special the town is, it's newly appointed director of Visit Oxford Kinney...

UM Student Fashion Show Supports Toys for Tots

Fashion and philanthropy will unite to brighten holiday spirits this Friday (Dec. 6) at a University of Mississippi student-organized fashion show. Proceeds from the...

Keeping History Intact While Allowing Growth a Challenge for Historic Commission

By Alyssa Schnugg News editor alyssa.scnhnugg@hottytoddy.com Two Oxford businesses are attempting to keep the historic feel of the old downtown Square buildings while breathing new life into...

Lafayette County Moving Toward Paper Ballot Elections

By Alyssa Schnugg News editor alyssa.schnugg@hottytoddy.com The Lafayette County Board of Supervisors took its first official step toward going back to paper ballots for future elections. On Monday,...

Anonymous Donor Funds UM Symposium to Revive Music of Earlier Era

A Renaissance music renaissance is coming to the University of Mississippi. Thanks to a gift provided by an anonymous donor, a symposium in summer 2020 will...

Student Co-Directors Work Against Student Food Insecurity at UM

The University of Mississippi Food Bank provides a discrete and much-needed source for food, hygiene products and more for Ole Miss students and employees...

Social Work Graduate Student Wants to Improve Perceptions of Life with a Disability

Andrea Hannaford, a second-year Master of Social Work student at the University of Mississippi, is on a mission to dispel myths about people living...