Category Archives: WJTV

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WHLT) - The NCAA Super Regionals are returning to Pete Taylor Park/Hill Denson Field for the second time in program history. The NCAA announced Tuesday, June 6, that Southern Miss ...

RANKIN COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) - Pisgah Elementary School students and others in the community celebrated the life of Keigan Norwood on Thursday. Norwood, 6, died at Children's of Mississippi in Jackson ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - States across the country, including all of Mississippi's bordering states, have left the commonly used nonprofit, nonpartisan election data system known as ERIC. However, 29 s...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Utility regulator Brandon Presley is now uncontested for the Democratic nomination for Mississippi governor this year after the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that another De...

JONES COUNTY, Miss. (WHLT) - A Hattiesburg man won a $1.5 million jackpot at a Mississippi casino. Officials with Bok Homa Casino said Lawrence E. won the jackpot while playing the Monopoly Money slot...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Mississippi announced a civil investigation against fraud involving the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). This follows ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) - A man charged with extorting the family of a missing 18-year-old student whose disappearance many believe he was involved in is now in Alabama. Joran van der Sloot, who was s...

LAUDERDALE COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) - Lauderdale County Circuit Judge Benjamin Graves handed down Casey White's sentence on Thursday, following his recent plea deal for his April 2022 escape from the Laude...

STARKVILLE, Miss. (WJTV) - A Starkville man was sentenced on Wednesday to 20 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance and money laundering. Terrance Chandler, 44, pled guilt...

NOXUBEE COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) - Huber Engineered Woods, a specialty building products manufacturer, will locate a manufacturing plant in Shuqualak in Noxubee County. Officials said the project is a $41...