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7 Funny Things Southerners Say About Cold Weather

Judging the weather based on numerical temperatures is boring. Besides, if it’s 35 or 40 degrees, who can tell the difference? Southerners love a...

Teaching Program Fellows Study Education Policy in Nation’s Capital

Fifteen University of Mississippi sophomores from the Mississippi Excellence in Teaching Program spent spring break in Washington, D.C., getting a close-up view of how...

Ole Miss Ladies Football Forum Coming in May

The Ole Miss Ladies Football Forum, a one-day camp for women who are interested in learning the ins and outs of college football, will...

Vassallo: There Is No “Too Much Heaven”

I woke up Monday morning listening to a classic song, "Too Much Heaven," which was a No. 1 hit for the Bee Gees some 36...

Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken Tops America’s Best Fried Chicken Spots

"It's a great honor that they thought to include us," general manager of Gus's World Famous Fried Chicken in Oxford Brad Whiteside said. "It's...

Graeme Harris, Student Who Tied Rope Around James Meredith Statue, Indicted

Acting Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, U.S. Attorney Felicia C. Adams of the Northern District of Mississippi...

New York Times on Documenting the Blues in Mississippi Delta

The Mississippi Delta blues has reached national media again as the New York Times writes a feature on the movement to preserve the cornerstone...

IHL Board Meets Friday Afternoon for ‘University of Mississippi Personnel Matter’

Mississippi's Institutions of Higher Learning board of trustees will meet at 2 p.m. Friday to discuss "a University of Mississippi personnel matter." The meeting, as first...

Oxford Crime Report: Thursday, March 26

Oxford police responded to the following incidents: seven suspicious activities, seven alarms, three disturbances, two grand larcenies, two ambulance assists, two petit larcenies, an...

Heaton: 8 Southern Ways to Heckle in SEC Baseball

For the record, I have never condoned heckling in baseball. It just doesn’t seem civilized. But then again, have you even seen a clip...

Journalist Bill Rose’s Favorite Memories of Shelby, Mississippi

No matter where life takes you over the years and what it allows you to do, for most people there’s just something special about...