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Spring Tips for Safe Gardening

Gardening is a dangerous pastime in America. Experts in nurturing native plants don’t always understand how to protect their joints and muscles while they...

Three Gun Ranges Opening in Oxford, Offering Safety Training, Firearms Experience

IBISWorld, a leading market research group, estimates the U.S. shooting range market to be a half-billion dollar business, including 2,138 ranges located across the...

Q&A with Chamber President Jon Maynard

Oxford is a Mississippi success story that elicits national praise for its small-town charm and rapid increase in population. It is home to the...

House Votes on Gay Jim Crow as Early as Next Week

The House can vote on Senate Bill 2681, dubbed the “Mississippi Religious Freedom Restoration Act,” as soon as March 14, according to the Campaign...

Charges Still Possible for Students in Meredith Statue Defilement

HottyToddy.com checked this morning with the FBI's public affairs specialist in Jackson Deborah Madden to find out what progress has been made in the...

Entrepreneurial Alliance Holds First Ever 'Shark Tank' Meeting

University students and other entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to practice pitching their business ideas to a panel of judges in a "Shark Tank"...

City Denies Appeal to Build Rental Complex

The clash between longtime residents living in single-family homes and rental housing developers is a storyline that plays out in college towns like Oxford...

Oxford Heritage Trees Near Official Designation

Oxford is one step closer to protecting the heritage trees that contribute to its urban forest, after a second reading by the Board of...

Baptist, Methodist Ministers Join to Decry Gay Discrimination Legislation

Five Mississippi Baptist and Methodist pastors have sent a letter to state legislators urging them to keep discriminatory language out of a so-called “Religious...

Highway 30 Collision Opens For Business in Oxford

Jeremy and Brittany Jones opened Highway 30 Collision, a full service auto repair center, located on Highway 30, east of Oxford. Jeremy is originally from...