Lifestyle

Leap Year Babies

Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi welcomed three Leap Year babies born Feb. 29.  Taquetra Carter of Oxford welcomed Khari ...

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MDWFP announces crackdown on habitual violators of hunting laws

The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks (MDWFP) reports it is intensifying efforts to uphold hunting regulations ...

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Man, 67, arrested in domestic violence case

An investigation regarding a report of domestic violence resulted in a 67-year-old man being charged with Aggravated Domestic ...

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Assailant puts gun to officer’s head; Oxford police able to disarm

Oxford Chief of Police Jeff McCutchen said officers were reminded why no call is “routine” after having dealt ...

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Seven OHS students named as National Merit finalists

Oxford High School has announced that seven exceptional students have advanced to National Merit finalists in the annual ...

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Ole Miss honors 60th anniversary of ‘Freedom Summer’

A week dedicated to honoring the 60th anniversary of the “Mississippi Freedom Summer” features guest speakers, documentaries and ...

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Northwest Hall of Fame inducts locals

Three Lafayette, one Oxford graduate inducted in group of 16 Sixteen Northwest Mississippi Community College students have been ...

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Dental students visit Capitol

Arts

Inaugural ‘Casey Jones Blues Fest’ slated for March 23

On Saturday, March 23, the Water Valley Main Street Association will hold its first Casey Jones Blues Festival.   ...

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It’s time to modernize public notice rates in Mississippi

From the Mississippi Press Association Mississippi’s newspapers have been trusted with publishing legally required government notices for decades ...

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Nash is finalist for National Coach of the Year

Awards banquet set for June 26 in Bismarck, N.D. The National High School Athletic Coaches Association announced last ...

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Oxford girls fall to Mantachie 3-2

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LCSD: Water Valley DUI felon charged with another DUI

On Feb. 22,  the Lafayette County Sheriff’s Department Dispatch received a call about a careless driver. The caller ...

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Oxford man charged with burglary, ‘felony malicious mischief’

On Feb. 7, the Oxford Police Department responded to a business in the 1400 block of North Lamar ...

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OPD: Two charged in December storage unit theft

On Dec. 15, 2023, the Oxford Police Department took a burglary report from a storage unit off of ...

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Scholarship endowment honors Ole Miss alumnus

Fund honoring Daniel Clyde Hughes Jr. will help business students, Eagle Scouts By Tina H. Hahn UM Communications ...

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Making History!

By M. Ben Williams Oxford’s own Charles Reagan Wilson, UM professor emeritus of history and Southern studies, received ...

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County youth recognized at annual Dixie National Sale of Junior Champions

This year, 1,225 4-H and FFA members across Mississippi participated in the Dixie National Junior Round-Up Livestock Shows, ...

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Oxford, Fulton natives are the two guardsmen who died in helicopter crash

By Lt. Col. Deidre D. Smith and Daniel Szarek Mississippi National Guard The two soldiers who died Feb. ...

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Clarksdale resident sentenced to prison for assaulting postal carrier

A Clarksdale resident was sentenced Feb. 23 to serve the statutory maximum sentence of eight years in prison ...

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Mississippi Delta grain elevator owner pleads guilty to fraud

John R. Coleman, 47, of Greenwood appeared Feb. 23 before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Mills in Oxford ...

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FNB Oxford Bank announces key employee appointments

FNB Oxford Bank has made two new key appointments: Charly McClatchy as vice president, finance, and Raymond Hawkins, ...

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