Category Archives: WJTV

Scheduled power outage for Entergy customers in Brandon
BRANDON, Miss. (WJTV) - Leaders with the City of Brandon announced Entergy Mississippi scheduled power outage for some neighbors on Tuesday, May 31. The power outage will take place between 8:00 a.m. ...
Biancca Ball May 24, 2022

McComb man arrested for burglary
MCCOMB, Miss. (WJTV) - A man was arrested for residential burglary in Pike County on Monday, May 16. Deputies said they retrieved surveillance video of a suspect forcibly entering into a home on Marle...
Biancca Ball May 24, 2022

Man injured in shooting after road rage incident in Laurel
LAUREL, Miss. (WHLT) - Laurel police are investigating a road rage incident that led to a shooting on Tuesday, May 24. Police responded to the Valero Station on Highway 11 South. They said the road ra...
Kaitlin Howell May 24, 2022

Two more arrested in connection to Hinds County Election Commission scandal
HINDS COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) - On Tuesday, May 24, State Auditor Shad White announced special agents from his office arrested two more suspects in connection to the Hinds County Election Commission scan...
Kaitlin Howell May 24, 2022

WATCH: Bees leave everyone buzzing at airport in Louisiana
NEW ORLEANS, La. (BRPROUD) - Now this might be an un-bee-lievable if it were not a true story. These almost stowaways made quite a scene at New Orleans Airport on Sunday, May 22. Craig Forsythe runs B...
Michael Scheidt May 24, 2022

18-wheeler overturns on I-20 W. ramp to I-55 N.
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - An 18-wheeler overturned at the Stack on Tuesday, May 24. According to the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT), the accident happened on the Interstate 20 West ramp...
Kaitlin Howell May 24, 2022

Top Southern Baptists plan to release secret list of abusers
Top administrative leaders for the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in America, said Tuesday that they will release a secret list of hundreds of pastors and other churc...
DEEPA BHARATH, Associated Press May 24, 2022

Gunman shot grandmother before running into school, Gov. Abbott says
(NEXSTAR) - In a press conference Wednesday, Gov. Greg Abbot laid out a timeline of events that led to Tuesday's mass shooting at a Texas elementary school that took the lives of 19 children and two t...
Jeremy Tanner May 24, 2022

30,000 state employees, teachers poised to lose name-brand prescription coverage under state plan
More than 30,000 state and public school employees received letters this week informing them their medications will no longer be covered under the state's prescription drug program as of July 1 - the ...
Kate Royals May 24, 2022

Jackson man sentenced for conspiracy to distribute drugs
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - A Jackson man was sentenced to more than 14 years in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine base, also known as "crack." According to court ...
Kaitlin Howell May 24, 2022
