Oxford firefighter Brion Whitten is used to working under pressure, but nothing in his career prepared him for staying awake ...

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 ...

Thank you for voting in Best of Oxford. Winners will be revealed in the July/Aug issue of Oxford Magazine. Winners will also be posted here in July.

The South Lamar Bridge over Highway 6 will close on May 26, according to the Mississippi Department of Transportation. Crews will be hydroblasting the bridge deck and repaving the deck. MDOT did not ...

The Oxford School District released their honor roll lists for the fall semester this week, recognizing students who set themselves apart from their peers in the classroom. Students who earned all A’s ...

The unexpected and untimely death of Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, along with the significant physical ailments of 84-year-old former GOP Senate Majority Leader U.S. Sen.

Volunteers are being sought for a community bed build this Saturday, July 18, to help meet the growing need for beds for children in Lafayette County who currently do not have one. The event will take ...

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 ...

A Lafayette County woman has been charged with child endangerment following an investigation involving illegal drug exposure, according to investigators with the Lafayette County Sheriff’s Office ...

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 ...

Native American tribes in Mississippi long employed historical cooling methods to combat the oppressive heat of the region. The Choctaw, Chickasaw, Natchez, Tunica-Biloxi, Houma and Chitimacha tribes ...

The Oxford & Lafayette County Chamber of Commerce held its annual Eggs & Issues breakfast recently at the Oxford Conference Center, where local legislators discussed key outcomes from the 2025 ...