Category Archives: WJTV

WATCH: Gov. Tate Reeves speaks at 2025 Neshoba County Fair
NESHOBA COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) - Gov. Tate Reeves (R-Miss.) spoke at the 2025 Neshoba County Fair on July 31. Both Reeves and House Speaker Jason White (R-Miss.) discussed what they called education fre...
Cameron Smith Jul 31, 2025

Former Magee Mayor Edwin 'Dale' Berry dies
MAGEE, Miss. (WJTV) - Former Magee Mayor Edwin "Dale" Berry has died. He was 67. According to his obituary, Berry died on July 28 at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) in Jackson. Ber...
Kaitlin Howell Jul 31, 2025

Ridgeland ALDI location under construction
RIDGELAND, Miss. (WJTV) - Construction is progressing on the new ALDI in Ridgeland. The store is located just north of Costco near Highland Colony Parkway and Lake Harbor Road. I-20 construction in Wa...
Kaitlin Howell Jul 31, 2025

Body discovered in South Jackson, police investigate
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - Police are investigating after a body was found in South Jackson. The incident occurred on Robinson Road near TV Road on July 31, not far from WJTV 12 News. The incident occurr...
Kaitlin Howell Jul 31, 2025

Teacher charged with killing couple who were hiking in Arkansas park with their kids
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KNWA) - Arkansas police charged a 28-year-old schoolteacher in the killing of a married couple who were hiking with their children at Devil's Den State Park, finding him in a nearby...
The Associated Press Jul 31, 2025

Arrest made in Devil's Den double homicide
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Special Agents with the Arkansas State Police have arrested James Andrew McGann, 28, of Springdale, in connection with a double homicide at Devil's Den State Park. McGann ...
Melissa Moon Jul 30, 2025

14 injured after vehicle crashes into Illinois restaurant
OSWEGO, Ill. (WGN) - More than a dozen people were injured after police say a vehicle plowed into a Portillo's restaurant in Oswego, Illinois, prompting a multi-agency response. Fourteen people suffer...
Courtney Spinelli Jul 30, 2025

Gluckstadt unveils new police department, court facility
GLUCKSTADT, Miss. (WJTV) - The City of Gluckstadt opened the doors to its new police department on July 30. After years of operating out of borrowed rooms at City Hall, the Gluckstadt Police Departmen...
Marie Mennefield Jul 30, 2025

Man charged in fatal Tylertown shooting
TYLERTOWN, Miss. (WHLT) - Walthall County deputies arrested a man in connection to a fatal shooting. The shooting occurred on St. Paul Road in Tylertown before 2:30 a.m. on July 30. Dequarrius Raiford...
Sethanie Smith Jul 30, 2025

State Auditor's Office recovers $900K in taxpayer funds
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - State Auditor Shad White (R-Miss.) announced in an annual Audit Exceptions Report that his office recovered $905,225.71 in taxpayer funds and returned them to the deserving ent...
Kaitlin Howell Jul 30, 2025
