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Top Stories of 2017: After Years in Faraway Places, Claudia Billups Rides Back Home

  Claudia Billups stays extremely busy these days managing a new restaurant, Fill-Up with Billups, on the Oxford Square. HottyToddy.com's Steve Vassallo crossed paths with her...

Mississippi Quote of the Day: B.B. King on Gospel vs. the Blues

Regarded by many as the king of the blues, B.B. King helped popularize the electric blues, with help from his trusty guitar, Lucille. In...

Oxford Film Festival Seeks Support Through Crowdfunding Campaign

Heading into its 15th year, the Oxford Film Festival (OFF) has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise the final amount of money needed for...

Daniel Lee Perea: Hooked on Breaking World Records

This article originally ran on HottyToddy.com in September 2015. Sports heroes are a familiar fixture in Oxford, Mississippi – from Archie and Eli Manning, to...

The Year in Review: 10 Most Notable Books of 2017

Of the books reviewed in 2017, HottyToddy.com Book Editor Allen Boyer has selected 10 that are of note at year-end. All are available at...

Top Stories of 2017: Oxford's First Responders Protect the City on Christmas Day

  As a young boy, Chris Abernathy was told by his father, a firefighter, to pick a gift from under the tree one Christmas Eve...

Video: Ole Miss Looks Back on 2017 in Stunning Collection of Photos

From a Nobel Prize-winning discovery in physics to the Rebels softball team's Cinderella run for the SEC title, the University of Mississippi has had...

Top Stories of 2017: Luke Guest and Son Karson Stalk Deer Between Snacks

Hearing a twig snap as a doe or buck makes its way through the woods, seeing the sunrise peeking over the trees and enjoying...

26 Southern Sayings for People Who Talk Too Much

Communication Addiction Disorder or “Talk­aholism”, affects 300 million people. In a strange twist, 300 million the number of the most active Twitter accounts, and...

Ole Miss Honors College Welcomes 15 Scholarship Recipients

One is an award-winning poet. Another is an archer with a love of biology. And one is a violinist who also runs cross country. These...