Category Archives: WJTV
Ridgeland Topgolf project moves forward
RIDGELAND, Miss. (WJTV) - Plans for a new 77-acre mixed-use facility that would feature Topgolf, a grocery store and more than 200 homes will move forward after getting approval for an overlay distric...
Apr 18, 2023
Mexico kidnapping survivor arrested in Myrtle Beach
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) -- One of the two Mexico kidnapping survivors was arrested Friday night in Myrtle Beach, according to online booking records. Latavia Washington McGee, 34, was arrested and c...
Apr 18, 2023
Son confronts mom, testifies in doomsday plot murder trial
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - The only surviving child of a woman charged in the murders of her two youngest children and a romantic rival confronted his mother about his siblings' deaths in an emotional phone ...
Apr 18, 2023
PHOTOS: Man wanted for shootings at Biloxi Spring Break event
BILOXI, Miss. (WJTV) - Biloxi police released surveillance pictures of a suspect wanted in connection to back-to-back shootings at a Spring Break event that injured a Biloxi police officer and four ot...
Apr 18, 2023
Former Hinds County detention officer sentenced for attempting to introduce contraband
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - A former Hinds County detention officer was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. According to court documents, on ...
Apr 18, 2023
'It's piling up everywhere': Jackson neighbors react to garbage contract approval
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - After the Jackson City Council approved a one-year emergency contract with Richard's Disposal, reaction has been mixed from residents. As trash continues to pile up across the ...
Apr 18, 2023
One killed, five injured after parking garage collapses in Lower Manhattan
NEW YORK (WPIX) -- One person is dead and five people are hurt after a parking garage partially collapsed in Lower Manhattan Tuesday. The collapse happened around 4:15 p.m. ET at a parking garage that...
Apr 18, 2023
Mississippi families compete on Family Feud
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - Two Mississippi families will compete on separate episodes of the hit game show Family Feud. The episode starring the Watts family, of Canton, will air on Tuesday, April 18. 'T...
Apr 18, 2023
Judge: Mississippi must give religious exemption on vaccines
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi must join most other states in allowing religious exemptions from vaccinations that children are required to receive so they can attend school, a federal judge has ru...
Apr 18, 2023
4 fatally shot in Maine home, followed by gunfire on highway
YARMOUTH, Maine (AP) - Four people were found fatally shot in a Maine home Tuesday shortly before gunfire injured three others on a busy highway 25 miles away in a pair of crimes that were linked, sta...
Apr 18, 2023