Category Archives: WJTV

WINSTON COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) - The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation (MBI) issued a Silver Alert for 65-year-old Charles Lester Lampley Sr., of Louisville, MS. He is described as six feet one inch t...

LAWRENCE COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) - The Mississippi Highway Patrol (MHP) is investigating after a pedestrian was hit and killed in Lawrence County on Tuesday, March 1. The incident happened just before 8:...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - On Wednesday, the Mississippi Senate passed a $230 million teacher pay raise plan.  "The future of Mississippi is in our children and those who educate them," Lt. Governor...

CANTON, Miss. (WJTV) - Canton Manor will be renovated with a $750,000 subsidy. Mississippi teacher pay survives legislators' political spat The Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas approved the Affordable...

HINDS COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) - Arraignments have been scheduled for three people, including a Hinds County election commissioner, who were arrested in connection to an embezzlement case. Toni Johnson wa...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - The Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) is reporting 448 new cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Mississippi, along with 15 additional deaths. The new cases were r...

From 2019 to 2020, the U.S. population grew by .35%, its slowest rate since 1900. Declining births, increasing deaths largely due to the graying Baby Boomer population, and a crackdown on immigration ...

YAZOO CITY, Miss. (WJTV) - Amnesty days will be held every day in March 2022 in Yazoo City. Financial coaching offered at Jackson bank The Yazoo Herald reported the Yazoo City Municipal Court will hol...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Proposals to increase some of the lowest teacher salaries in the U.S. were in danger Tuesday as Mississippi legislators engaged in a political showdown. Hours before a big deadli...

JONES COUNTY, Miss. (WHLT) - Jones County deputies are searching for an inmate trustee who ran away from a work detail. Deputies said James Lee Boleware, 25, was working a detail on Westside Drive in ...