Category Archives: WJTV

Bicyclist killed in Walthall County crash
WALTHALL COUNTY, Miss. (WHLT) - The Mississippi Highway Patrol (MHP) is investigating a crash that killed a bicyclist. The crash happened on Highway 98 in Walthall County just after 8:00 p.m. on Monda...
Biancca Ball Dec 07, 2022

Mississippi airman accounted for from World War II
BROOKLYN, Miss. (WHLT) - The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced on Wednesday, December 7 that U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Theodore F. Scarborough, 21, of Brooklyn, Mississippi, w...
Biancca Ball Dec 07, 2022

Metrocenter Mall owner arrested for not paying restitution in 2013 conviction
ADAMS COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) - Adams County deputies arrested the woman who owns part of the Metrocenter Mall in Jackson. Adams County Sheriff Travis Patten said Emily Sanders was arrested on Tuesday, D...
Kaitlin Howell Dec 07, 2022

Silver Alert canceled for 36-year-old Pearl man
UPDATE: RANKIN COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) - Leaders with the City of Pearl announced Chris Williamson, 36, returned home safely on Wednesday. RANKIN COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) - The Mississippi Bureau of Investig...
Biancca Ball Dec 07, 2022

Biloxi post office named after fallen police officer
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - A final passage of legislation designated a postal service facility in Biloxi as the "Robert S. McKeithen Post Office Building." McKeithen, a 24-year veteran of the Biloxi Poli...
Malaysia McCoy Dec 07, 2022

Jackson man sentenced for 2021 armed carjacking
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - A Jackson man was sentenced to six years in federal prison for an armed carjacking. Court documents stated 21-year-old Anthony Lee Holder carjacked a victim at gunpoint on Febr...
Malaysia McCoy Dec 07, 2022

$1 million Mega Millions ticket sold in Hazlehurst
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - Two Mississippi Lottery players hit it big while playing separate games in Tuesday's drawings. One of the players won $1 million by matching all five white balls with the Mega ...
Malaysia McCoy Dec 07, 2022

Three Southern University Human Jukebox band members hit, killed while changing flat tire
BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) -- The Baton Rouge community is mourning after three Southern University Human Jukebox band members were struck and killed along I-49 in north Louisiana Tuesday evening. Acc...
Allison Bruhl Dec 07, 2022

Mother says Destin school nurse swapped daughter's ADHD medication for Aleve
DESTIN, Fla. (WKRG) -- Mother of sixth-grade twins Diane Lansing said her daughter Harper noticed her Adderral medication at school looked different, but she never expected to uncover an alleged crimi...
Kimber Collins Dec 07, 2022

Cal Green named interim Natchez police chief
NATCHEZ, Miss. (WJTV) - Natchez Mayor Dan Gibson broke a 3-3 tie vote to appoint Caroline 'Cal' Green as the interim police chief for the city. The Natchez Democrat reported Green was appointed to lea...
Kaitlin Howell Dec 06, 2022
