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Top Stories of 2017: No Job's Too Odd for This 20-Year-Old Entrepreneur

The average college student worries about writing three papers and studying for four tests within a five-day span. But in the midst of Ole...

Top Stories of 2017: Gina Matthews Brings Cardio Barre to Oxford

Oxford entrepreneur Gina Rounsaville Matthews has a passion for fitness, but she loves a juicy cheeseburger with fries, too. Looking at her, you wouldn’t believe...

Top Stories of 2017: UM Student Lost Her Hand But Not Her Fighting Spirit

On Aug. 21, 2015, Kassidy Bailey sat beside her friend Wyatt Hemmings as he drove the two around his property on a Canadian-American Challenge...

Top Stories of 2017: New Hotel Designed with Millennials in Mind

  HottyToddy.com recently attended the groundbreaking ceremony for Oxford's newest hotel, Tru by Hilton. Described on the Hilton website as “a brand-new hotel experience …...

Top Stories of 2017: Ole Miss Profs Reflect on Literary Lion Willie Morris

For all his worldliness and erudition, Willie Morris—the late Mississippi memoirist, editor, educator and literary lion of the South—loved nothing more than a good...

Top Stories of 2017: The Story Behind Ole Miss' Most Beloved Poem

The man who penned “The Heart of Ole Miss,” the beloved and oft-quoted poem about the University of Mississippi, initially thought so little of...

Top Stories of 2017: What “Family” Means at Ross Family Dental Clinic

HottyToddy.com had the pleasure recently to interview a dynamic young dentist, entrepreneur and Ole Miss alum, Dr. Alison Ross. Her story is inspiring, showing...

Top Stories of 2017: Finding Mr. Kinney in the Mississippi Delta

While on a work-related trip to Cleveland, Miss. one day, I dined at the Starving Musician’s Bakery, stopped in at the bank and later...

Top Stories of 2017: Dean of Oxford Photographers Retires After 33 Years

  For more than three decades, Robert Jordan has profoundly shaped how the world perceives the University of Mississippi. His photographs have documented the natural...

Top Stories of 2017: How Much Pizza Is Too Much Pizza?

With at least 15 restaurants serving delicious pizza, we decided to find out if Oxford has enough pizza lovers to pay for all that...