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 ...

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 ...

Oxford resident and avid skateboarder Skyler King will set out Aug. 1 on a more than 1,100-mile journey from Oxford to New York City to honor his late brother while raising awareness and support for ...

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 ...

Eight students from North East Mississippi Electric Power Association joined more than 1,500 high school students from across the country for the annual Electric Cooperative Youth Tour, held June ...

“How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.” This quote by Morgan Freeman really captures the way I want to live. I try to think of others. I hold doors open for others, even ...

July – Happy 250th Birthday to us this past Saturday, July 4. Catholics dedicate the month of July to the “Precious Blood of Jesus” that he shed on the cross to save us. Without that, there would be ...

The Sales Tax Holiday, often referred to as Tax Free Weekend, will start 12:01 a.m. Friday, July 10, and go through midnight Sunday, July 12. The Miss. Dept of Revenue announced the dates and released ...

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 ...

Property transfers between June 29-July 3, 2026, as recorded with the Lafayette County Chancery Clerk: Russom Constructions, LLC to Dennis and Marni Tisza, Lot 54, Ammadelle Subdivision. Patterson ...

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