Category Archives: WJTV

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that Mississippi had the highest infant mortality rate in 2020. This is the fourth straight year that ...

MADISON COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) - One of the six workers who were injured in a recent Madison County oil tank explosion died on Thursday, August 4. The explosion happened at Kearney Park on Friday, July ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - Attorney General Lynn Fitch (R-Miss.) announced four men were sentenced in separate child exploitation cases in Mississippi. On August 1, Matthew R. Strempler, of Bay St. Louis...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - Central Transportation Commissioner Willie Simmons, along with Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) staff, joined Jackson leaders and state officials to discuss the ...

ALCORN COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) - Four inmates escaped from the Alcorn County Jail early Friday morning. Investigators said the inmates have been identified as Landon Braudway, Antonio Reyes, Samuel Sims,...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed six cases of monkeypox in Mississippi as of Thursday, August 4. Leaders with the Mississippi State Department of ...

Tenderloin, strip, rib eye, porterhouse-the words alone of the choicest cuts of cow, aged to tenderized perfection and served under bordelaise, barnaise, or au poivre, are enough to get a meat lover s...

JACKSON, Miss (AP) - Officials in Mississippi's most populous county said they were weighing legal options after a federal judge seized control of a local jail that saw the deaths of seven d...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - The City of Jackson will distribute cases of bottled water to neighbors on Friday, August 5 at two locations. This comes after a citywide boil water notice was issued...

MADISON, Miss. (WJTV) - A pilot had to make an emergency landing on a Mississippi road Thursday, August 4. Madison police said witnesses reported the small aircraft landed on Madison Avenue around 7:3...