I walked this morning. It was later than I had planned, but I walked for 31 minutes. It’s almost the middle of the hot season in Hades, or rather, the middle of July in Mississippi. Like I said, I ...

Perfection finally showed up at my house last week. I ate it over the kitchen sink. It took 64 years to find. That hardly seems fair, but peaches don’t operate on fairness. They’re ready when they’re ...

Plan ahead: The base should chill overnight. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Place 3 cups of the peaches in a 10- or 12-inch cast-iron skillet. Add ¼ cup of the granulated sugar, the brown sugar, cane ...

The North Mississippi Chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Inc. recently presented the local Boys and Girls Club L.O.U. Barksdale Clubhouse with $800 from proceeds from the Jazz in Full Bloom, an ...

Major Maurtice Mills, a 2016 graduate of the University of Mississippi, has been named the Marine Corps Aviator of the Year. The award, also known as the Alfred Cunningham Award, honors the top Marine ...

The trial of Terry E. Pegues, who faces 20 counts of animal cruelty stemming from the discovery of dead and malnourished dogs on his Lafayette County property in 2024, continued Tuesday with Pegues ...

In the June 1956 edition of Harper’s Magazine, literary giant William Faulkner of Oxford wrote in an essay about the social condition of the South: “We must be free not because we claim freedom, but ...

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A Lafayette County Circuit Court judge has amended the sentence of the man convicted of killing Ole Miss student Walker Fielder and critically injuring another student in a hit-and-run in 2022, and ...

Off Square Books will welcome historian Katherine Grandjean for a discussion and signing of her new book, Kingdom of Devils, at 5:30 p.m. on July 16. The signing will take place at Off Square Books.