Category Archives: WJTV

Missing Child Alert issued for 14-year-old in Jackson
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - A Missing and Endangered Child Alert has been issued for a 14-year-old from Jackson. Agents with the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation (MBI) said Isiah Davis was last seen on...
Kaitlin Howell Jan 08, 2025

Heat restored at Murrah High School
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - Officials with the Jackson Public School District (JPS) said heat has been fully restored at Murrah High School. The high school will resume its regular in-person schedule on&n...
Kaitlin Howell Jan 08, 2025

4 arrested for fatal shooting at Holmes County gas station
HOLMES COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) - Holmes County deputies arrested four suspects in connection to a fatal shooting at gas station on New Year's Eve. Holmes County Sheriff Willie March said the suspect...
Kaitlin Howell Jan 07, 2025

Driver killed during two-vehicle crash in Jackson
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - Jackson police are investigating a fatal two-vehicle crash. The crash occurred on Northside Drive at Meadowlane Drive around 10:30 p.m. on Monday, January 6. 'A big boom': Witn...
Kaitlin Howell Jan 07, 2025

What are Mississippi lawmakers focusing on during 2025 Legislative Session?
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - The 2025 Mississippi Legislative Session is underway, with tax reform and other key issues dominating the agenda. Governor Tate Reeves (R-Miss.) said his top priority is the fu...
Byron Brown Jan 07, 2025

LIST: Warming shelters open across Mississippi this week
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - Due to the dangerously low temperatures expected in Mississippi this week, several warming shelters have opened across the state. Alcorn County Warming Shelter Blue Build...
Malaysia McCoy Jan 07, 2025

Murrah High dismisses early due to 'unexpected heating system failure'
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - Murrah High School dismissed early on Tuesday, January 7 due to an "unexpected heating system failure." Leaders with the Jackson Public School District (JPS) said students and ...
Kaitlin Howell Jan 07, 2025

'A big boom': Witness recounts deadly Marshall County car crash
MARSHALL COUNTY, Miss. -- Tonight WREG is pushing for answers after a police chase turned deadly in northern Mississippi over the weekend. We now know a Byhalia Police officer was chasing an SUV that ...
Shay Arthur Jan 07, 2025

University of Mississippi freshman among victims of New Orleans terror attack
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- A freshman at the University of Mississippi was among those injured in the terrorist attack in New Orleans on New Year's Day. Parker Vidrine, 18, was with a group of friends on Bourb...
Melissa Moon Jan 07, 2025

Jimmy Carter eulogized by Kamala Harris and others as 39th president returns to Washington
WASHINGTON (AP) - Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the nation's capital in humbling defeat, the 39th president returned to Washington on Tuesday for state funeral rites that...
The Associated Press Jan 07, 2025
