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Despite rainy weather and cold temperatures, students began lining up outside The Sandy and John Black Pavilion at the University of Mississippi for Vice President JD Vance and Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk’s “This is the Turning Point Tour”...

Former University of Mississippi employee Lauren Stokes filed a lawsuit against UM Chancellor Glenn Boyce on Tuesday. She is alleging wrongful termination from the university after she reposted comments regarding the killing of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. In...

Protesters gathered at Oxford City Hall from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday for a No Kings rally in a show of solidarity against actions by the President Donald Trump administration the group characterized as authoritarian. No Kings is...

The Lafayette County Board of Supervisors decided on Monday, Oct. 20 to table the vote to rezone 40.1 acres on Mississippi Highway 328 from A-1 Rural to I-2 Heavy Industrial for a proposed asphalt plant until their next meeting on...

Local developer JW McCurdy wants to build a hot mix asphalt plant eight miles south of Oxford and three miles east of Taylor, Miss. He is facing one big hurdle — the proposed site for the facility must be rezoned...

Construction on Hotel Leighton, a boutique hotel in the Plein Air neighborhood in Taylor, Miss., broke ground on Thursday, Sept. 25. Founders of the traditional neighborhood development Campbell and Leighton McCool own the hotel, independent of major hotel chains, and...

City Grocery Restaurant Group, headed by James Beard Foundation Award-winning chef John Currence, announced the arrival of new executive chef Tory McPhail, another Beard award winner, last month. Also included in the announcement were plans to open a second location...

A map featuring current Airbnb prices in Oxford on Sept. 17, 2025. Graphic courtesy Airbnb website In February 2023, Emily McDougal, mother of a toddler, was moving. Again. As Oxford housing costs increased over the years, McDougal found herself consistently...

Author John T. Edge reads his memoir at Off Square Books on Sept. 16. Photo by Madison Twiddy. John T. Edge shared reflections on community and family life in his new memoir, “House of Smoke: A Southerner Goes Searching for...

Owner Haley Kelly outside of new boutique H Squared Ladies Wear on Aug. 29. Photo by Kenzie Hall H Squared Ladies Wear celebrated the opening of its boutique in Oxford with a ribbon cutting on Thursday, Sept. 4, at a...