Category Archives: WJTV

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - Efforts to expand Medicaid to roughly 200,000 Mississippians during the 2024 Legislative Session have died. Negotiations broke down between House and Senate leaders late Wednes...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi's Republican-led Legislature completed a last-ditch effort Thursday to revive a bill to regulate transgender people's use of bathrooms, locker rooms and dormitor...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi Supreme Court has declined to rule on whether the state is violating its own constitution with a program that would spend $10 million of public money on...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - Capitol police are investigating a bank robbery. The robbery happened at Trustmark Bank in the 500 block of State Street in Jackson on Thursday, May 2. Police said a man walked...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - Medicaid expansion talks have hit a wall after House Speaker Jason White (R-Miss.) announced Wednesday that the latest House proposal would have Mississippi voters voice their ...

PETAL, Miss. (WHLT) - A former Petal teacher, who received a $25,000 Milken Educator Award in 2022, has been charged with sex crimes. Petal police said they received a report in February 2024 from the...

OXFORD, Miss. (WJTV) - A pro-Palestine protest at the University of Mississippi in Oxford turned into a shouting match between the protesters and counter-protesters. The Clarion Ledger reported the pr...

HINDS COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) - The three suspects charged in connection to the fatal shooting at a Utica club have been denied bond. Anthony Brown, 48, Eric Dixon, 42, and Joseph Crum, 34, made the...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - A Hinds County judge has ruled that the brother of Dau Mabil can conduct an independent autopsy. According to court documents, Judge Dewayne Thomas said Dau's widow, Karissa Bo...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - The woman accused of causing a Hinds County crash that killed a mother and her six-month-old son has been found guilty. The jury found Beth Ann White, 52, guilty on f...