Category Archives: WJTV
Former tribal councilmember sentenced for embezzlement
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - A former tribal councilmember for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians was sentenced to 84 months in prison for embezzlement, perjury, and suborning perjury. Prosecutors sai...
Oct 28, 2022
Memphis man pleads guilty to sex trafficking in Mississippi
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - A Memphis man pled guilty to the sex trafficking of a minor and interstate sex trafficking in Mississippi and Louisiana. Wayne Edwards Settles, 30, pled guilty to transporting ...
Oct 28, 2022
Hattiesburg doctors warn FDA of "gas station heroin"
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WHLT) - Doctors in Hattiesburg are alerting the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the drug tianeptine after they said it's being widely used in the Greater Hattiesburg area. Sp...
Oct 28, 2022
U.S. Supreme Court being asked to remove last vestige of Jim Crow from state Constitution
The United States Supreme Court is being asked to find unconstitutional Mississippi's lifetime ban on people convicted of many felonies being able to vote. "The justices normally take about 1% of the ...
Oct 28, 2022
What are your city's trick-or-treating hours?
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - Halloween is right around the corner, and that means parents, schools and organizations are planning events to celebrate. To help with that planning, city's set trick-or-treati...
Oct 28, 2022
Rock n' Roll icon Jerry Lee Lewis dies at 87
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) -- Jerry Lee Lewis, the last surviving member of the Million-Dollar Quartet at Sun Studio in Memphis, has died at the age of 87, his publicist confirmed Friday. Called one of the...
Oct 28, 2022
New VA clinic in Greenville opens October 31
GREENVILLE, Miss. (WJTV) - Leaders with the G. V. (Sonny) Montgomery VA Medical Center (VAMC) announced the relocation of the Greenville VA Community-Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC). The clinic will be...
Oct 28, 2022
Largest Powerball jackpot of 2022 rises to $825M
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - The Powerball jackpot increased from $800 million to an estimated $825 million with an estimated cash value of $410.2 million ahead of the Saturday, October 29 drawing. This ma...
Oct 28, 2022
Terrebonne students in custody after racially-motivated video circulates
HOUMA, La. (WGNO)- Two Terrebonne High School students were taken into custody Wednesday (Oct. 26) after a racially motivated video circulated on social media, according to the Houma Police Department...
Oct 28, 2022
Jackson mayor talks crime, water, development in address
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - On Thursday, the mayor's State of the City address, which he prerecorded, was focused on a few major issues in Jackson like crime, water woes and development. Mayor Chokwe A. L...
Oct 28, 2022