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Hotty Toddy News Services - February 19, 2025

The Delta's Newspapers Tell Region's Unique History

You can’t get more Southern than Mississippi, and no place in the Magnolia State evokes more Southern heritage and culture than the Delta. It...

Terrorist Attack in China Causes Heartache at Ole Miss

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 recently disappeared over the South China Sea, carrying 239 passengers, 152 from China. On March 1, fewer than seven days earlier,...

Area Churches Kick Off Lenten Luncheon Series

Dr. David Beckley, president of Rust College in Holly Springs and an Ole Miss graduate, was the first speaker in the 2014 Lenton Luncheon...

Ruth & Jimmie's Given New Life as Premier Event Space, Downtown Abbe

Remember Ruth and Jimmie's Sporting Goods and Cafe in Abbeville, Miss.? They had a 12-stool lunch counter, banana pudding on Saturdays, and the best...

The Acid Test: Remember the guy Scalia dinged for reading his argument? He won his case

By: Tom Freeland, HottyToddy.com, Blogger Folks may recall an argument where Scalia let a lawyer have it for reading his argument: Lechner’s quite apparent nervousness might...

Iconic Restaurants of Jackson, Mississippi

Eudora Welty, in an autobiographical essay titled “Finding a Voice,” called her hometown of Jackson “a region to itself.” And over the first two...

Adreian and Lacey – The Special Bond between a Bigtime College Athlete and the Little Girl Battling for her Life

Charlie Adams is an Oxford native, graduate of Lafayette High School and a member of the Ole Miss Class of 1985. Adams is a...

Our Town Video is Touching Oxford Tribute

Oxford native and 1979 Ole Miss graduate Chandler Bramlett is from a local family as old and well known as the Faulkners (i.e. Bramlett...

Church Museum Brings History to Life

The Burns Belfry Museum and Multicultural Center is a beautiful, gothic-style building located on Jackson Ave. in the heart of what was once known...

UM Journalism School Offers Narrative-Focused Master’s Degree

The University of Mississippi’s Meek School of Journalism and New Media has developed a specialized professional master’s degree to train journalists in the art of narrative...