Category Archives: WJTV
Mississippi Lottery player buys $50K Powerball ticket
CALHOUN COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) - A Mississippi Lottery player purchased a Powerball ticket worth $50,000 from the Monday, May 16 drawing. The player matched four out of five white balls and the Powerbal...
May 17, 2022
High energy burden for Mississippians expected to get worse this summer
Booming natural gas prices, along with retiring coal plants and limited oil production, mean electric bills will likely go up across the country this summer. That includes Mississippi, where both ener...
May 17, 2022
How gas prices have changed in Mississippi in the last week
The national average price of regular gasoline broke its record high yet again on Monday, reaching $4.48 per gallon, according to data from AAA. Except for Georgia, Kansas, and Oklahoma, every state n...
May 17, 2022
Kosciusko officer suspended for policy violation
KOSCIUSKO, Miss. (WJTV) - A Kosciusko police officer has been suspended for a policy violation. Hinds County Board of Supervisors disagree with ARPA spending Officer Braxton Goza was suspended without...
May 17, 2022
How to get Taco Bell's Mexican Pizza before its official return
IRVINE, Calif. (WXIN) - The joyous day is nearly upon us: Mexican Pizza will be back on the menu at Taco Bell on Thursday, but some fans can get it early. Taco Bell's Mexican Pizza remains popular. (P...
May 17, 2022
2 more members of $24 million drug empire sentenced
MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) -- Two more members of a multi-million dollar drug empire have been sentenced in federal court. Six people have been sentenced in connection with this case so far. 26-year-old Sham...
May 17, 2022
Louisiana woman allegedly left her 3 kids, under 12, alone, asleep in hot van
ST. LANDRY PARISH, La. (KLFY) -- A Crowley woman was arrested in St. Landry Parish last week for cruelty to juveniles charges after authorities in Acadia Parish advised that she was wanted for child d...
May 17, 2022
Louisiana parents fight back after reported breathalyzer test leads to 11 students suspension
OPELOUSAS, La. (KLFY) -- Eleven students at Opelousas Catholic High School have been suspended for three days after allegedly failing a breathalyzer test. The students' parents say, however, the readi...
May 17, 2022
Jones County deputies capture homicide suspect
JONES COUNTY, Miss. (WHLT) - Jones County deputies captured a man wanted in connection to a woman's death. Deputies said they arrested 48-year-old Marty Breazeale, of Laurel, in a pine thicket overnig...
May 17, 2022
Biden calls Buffalo shooting 'domestic terrorism'
(NewsNation) - President Joe Biden spoke in Buffalo, New York, the Tuesday after a white supremacist targeted Black people at a supermarket, leaving 10 dead. Biden decried the act as "domestic terrori...
May 17, 2022