Category Archives: WJTV

MDOT updates I-55 closure schedule in Madison
MADISON, Miss. (WJTV) - Officials with the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) updated the dates for the intermittent closures on Interstate 55 in Madison. According to MDOT, the northboun...
Sethanie Smith Jun 16, 2025

Alabama attempted murder suspect captured in Mississippi
MAGEE, Miss. (WJTV) - An attempted murder suspect in Alabama was captured in Mississippi. Magee Police Chief Denis Borges said officers responded to Newk's Eatery in Magee just after 9:30 p.m. on Sund...
Kaitlin Howell Jun 16, 2025

VIDEO: Shots fired after man allegedly tries to hit Mississippi officer with stolen car
SOUTHAVEN, Miss. -- Shots were fired during an altercation on Stateline Road in Southaven, Miss., after a man allegedly tried to run a police officer over in a stolen car. At around 10:45 a.m., the So...
Harrison Klopp Jun 16, 2025

Good Samaritans pull truck driver from rollover crash in Mississippi
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The Coahoma County Fire Department says a group of bystanders came to the rescue of a truck driver trapped underneath his big rig on Highway 316 near Jonestown, MS, Friday morning. T...
Melissa Moon Jun 16, 2025

Man suspected of shooting 2 Minnesota lawmakers is in custody after surrendering to police
BELLE PLAINE, Minn. (AP) - The man suspected of killing a Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another crawled to officers in surrender Sunday after they located him in the woods near his home, bringing an...
OBED LAMY, STEVE KARNOWSKI, MIKE BALSAMO and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, Associated Press Jun 16, 2025

Man suspected of shooting 2 Minnesota lawmakers caught, AP sources says
BELLE PLAINE, Minn. (AP) - The man suspected of killing a Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another has been taken into custody, two law enforcement officials said, bringing an end to a nearly two-day s...
OBED LAMY, STEVE KARNOWSKI, MIKE BALSAMO and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, Associated Press Jun 15, 2025

Vehicle belonging to Vance Boelter, suspect in shooting of 2 Minnesota state lawmakers, found
BELLE PLAINE, Minn. (AP) - Authorities searched a vehicle on a rural road outside Minneapolis on Sunday that they believe had been used by the man wanted in the shootings of two Democratic lawmak...
The Associated Press Jun 15, 2025

Military parade set to kick off in nation's capital as protesters around the country decry Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) - The grand military parade that President Donald Trump had been wanting for years barreled down Constitution Avenue on Saturday with tanks, troops and a 21-gun salute, playi...
The Associated Press Jun 14, 2025

Woman arrested after allegedly crashing into JPD car
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - Jackson police arrested a woman after she allegedly hit a police vehicle with her car. The incident occurred on Highway 18 at Maddox Road on Friday, June 13. Victim attacked ne...
Kaitlin Howell Jun 14, 2025

2 Minnesota state lawmakers shot in their homes early Saturday
BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. (AP) - Hundreds of law officers fanned out across a Minneapolis suburb Saturday in pursuit of a man who authorities say posed as a police officer and fatally shot a Democratic sta...
The Associated Press Jun 14, 2025
