Category Archives: WJTV
'Strong probability' human remains found at park belong to Brian Laundrie, family attorney says
You can find the latest on the investigation involving Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie here. Download the WFLA app for breaking news push alerts and sign up for breaking news email...
Oct 21, 2021
Visitation to reopen at Mississippi prisons in November
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) Commissioner Burl Cain announced that all state prisons will reopen to visitation on November 1, 2021. MDOC stopped visitation in J...
Oct 21, 2021
Man hitting baseballs into Grand Canyon identified by US Park Rangers
GRAND CANYON, Ariz. (WVLA/NEXSTAR) - What a screwball. U.S. Park Rangers at Grand Canyon National Park have identified the visitor who was seen hitting baseballs into the South Rim of the canyon on Su...
Oct 21, 2021
What Americans fear most, according to their Google searches
(NEXSTAR) -- From clowns to public speaking, people have a wide range of phobias that keep them up at night. Just in time for Halloween, Your Local Security compiled a list of the top phobias in the U...
Oct 21, 2021
More than 20 former NFL players, coaches will honor Leon Seals in Jackson
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV)-More than twenty former NFL players and coaches will be in Jackson at the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Thursday evening to honor former NFL player and Hinds County Constable, ...
Oct 21, 2021
Jackson firefighters respond to fire at Raymond Road restaurant
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - Jackson firefighters responded to a fire that happened at a restaurant early Thursday morning. Fire training facility coming to Purvis The fire happened at Gator Jr's to Go res...
Oct 21, 2021
Willie B. Smith, intellectually disabled Black man, set to be executed today in Alabama
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) -- Today the State of Alabama is scheduled to execute Willie B. Smith, an intellectually disabled Black man, for the murder of Sharma Ruth Johnson in 1991. The execution will t...
Oct 21, 2021
Three arrested in shooting that killed Clarksdale, Mississippi 7-year-old
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Three men have been arrested in the Oct. 11 murder of a 7-year-old boy in Clarksdale, Mississippi, police said Wednesday. 7-year-old killed in Clarksdale shootings Jontavious Smith, 2...
Oct 20, 2021
'We Are the 74' protests outside Mississippi governor's mansion
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - Members of the group 'We Are the 74' protested outside of the Governor's Mansion in Jackson on Wednesday. The members, who support medical marijuana legalization in Mississippi...
Oct 20, 2021
New Yazoo City police chief discusses goal to make city safer
YAZOO CITY, Miss. (WJTV) - The new Yazoo City police chief wants to make the city safer. Chief Joseph Head is no stranger to law enforcement and has nearly 30 years of experience. Among fighting crime...
Oct 20, 2021