Lafayette County

Oxford readies for Harvey remnants

A flash flood watch has been issued by the National Weather Service for Lafayette County in anticipation of ...

Crime

*UPDATE* Ole Miss police looking for man displaying firearm on campus

*UPDATE* According to UPD, the video was filmed by comedian Amos Brazan who was touring the campus while in ...

News

Former trail group donates $3K to Exchange Club of Oxford

In 1999, a group of friends riding horses on graveled roads in the Holly Springs National Park discussed ...

Events

Thacker Mountain Radio Hour returns to Oxford’s Off Square Books Thursday

The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour opens its fall season this Thursday, Aug. 31 at 6 p.m. at Off ...

News

Justice Department faces tough questions over travel ban

SEATTLE (AP) — Three federal appeals court judges on Monday challenged the Trump administration’s limited view of who ...

News

President Donald Trump traveling to Texas for briefings on Harvey recovery

WASHINGTON (AP) — Confronting Harvey’s fury, President Donald Trump is making an all-out push to show the federal ...

Crime

Crime/Emergency Reports

  Monday Oxford Police Department Reports 4 wrecks 1 911 hang-up 1 abandoned vehicle 13 alarms 2 EMS ...

Education

Oxford School District awarded for being a top CHART program

The Mississippi Department of Health made a presentation at the Oxford School District’s Board of Trustees monthly meeting ...

Business

Lafayette County Planning Commission gives nod to new county complex

Since the day the idea to build a new county complex first was devised by the Lafayette County ...

Lafayette County

Donations for victims of Hurricane Harvey being collected at several Oxford locations

Before her family made Oxford their home nine years ago, Andrea Hightower spent much of her childhood playing ...

Lafayette County

Oxford and Lafayette Chamber of Commerce asking for donations

The Oxford and Lafayette Chamber of Commerce is putting a plan together to help out the victims of ...

Lafayette County

Planning Commission gives nod to new county complex

Since the day the idea to build a new county complex first was devised by the Lafayette County ...

News

Latest Harvey path, updates 2017: Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi in tropical storm’s track

Staff and Wire Reports What began as Hurricane Harvey 2017 is now Tropical Storm Harvey 2017 and it ...

News

Workforce housing developments planned for east Oxford

One of the two proposed affordable housing neighborhoods being built by a public and private partnership announced by ...

Education

Religion course open to Lafayette-Oxford-University community

Christina Steube University of Mississippi OXFORD, Miss. — A University of Mississippi professor is opening her fall religion course ...

Education

Governor Haley Barbour to receive Geographic Visionary Award

OXFORD, Miss. — The Mississippi Geographic Alliance at the University of Mississippi will honor former Gov. Haley Barbour with ...

Crime

Crime report

— Friday-Sunday Oxford Police Department Reports unavailable this morning. Sheriff’s Department Reports 1 wreck 6 alarms 6 animal ...

Crime

13 arrested in prostitution investigation

The Oxford Police Department, along with the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office, local FBI office, Homeland Security Investigations Division ...

News

Pressure rises on pension fund to seek money

By Jeff Amy Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — An outside adviser is telling Mississippi’s public pension system ...

Business

Lafayette County Planning Commission to review office complex plans

Plans for the new Lafayette County Office Complex and Multi-use Arena are moving forward with the Lafayette County ...

Oxford

The 12 Myths of Addiction—Myth #3: Better parenting would have prevented addiction

By Lucy Schultze Oxford Treatment Center This is not your fault. That’s the first thing Dee Meux, CADC, ...

Lifestyle

Ole Miss endowment pays tribute to late Oxford entrepreneur

By Brett Barefoot Gifts to a new scholarship endowment in the University of Mississippi’s School of Business Administration will ...

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