Category Archives: WJTV
Group calls for Mississippi lawmakers to close healthcare coverage gap
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - Calls for addressing Mississippi's healthcare coverage gap filled the State Capitol Thursday afternoon. Care4MS urged lawmakers to pass legislation that would close the ga...
Feb 22, 2024
Who has the power to sue Brett Favre over welfare money? 1 Mississippi Republican sues another
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi's Republican attorney general sued the Republican state auditor Thursday, trying to block the auditor's effort to recover misspent welfare money from retired NFL quar...
Feb 22, 2024
Rep. Thompson expresses concerns with Jackson home explosions
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - U.S. Representative Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) expressed his concerns about two home explosions in Jackson. Officials with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) s...
Feb 22, 2024
Judge denies request to push back Beth Ann White trial
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - The woman accused of causing a Hinds County crash that killed a mother and her six-month-old son appeared in court on Thursday. Beth Ann White entered Judge Winston Kidd's cour...
Feb 22, 2024
Mother of MS boy detained for public urination files $2 million lawsuit
SENATOBIA, Miss. (WREG) --- The mother of a 10-year-old boy who was detained in Senatobia, Mississippi for public urination has filed a $2 million federal lawsuit against the city, police department, ...
Feb 22, 2024
MSDH moves to revoke license of medical marijuana testing facility
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - Officials with the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH), through the Mississippi Medical Cannabis Program (MMCP), announced their intent to revoke the license of a med...
Feb 22, 2024
Mississippi man gets hefty sentence for ATV crash that killed 2 people and injured 1
UPDATE (2:37 p.m.) - Derrick Chavers, 38, who was originally charged with two counts of murder and one count of aggravated assault, was found guilty of two counts of manslaughter and one count of aggr...
Feb 22, 2024
New agricultural market complex coming to Brandon
BRANDON, Miss. (WJTV) - Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce Andy Gipson (R-Miss.) announced an economic development project - the Genuine Mississippi Agricultural Market Complex. The complex, whi...
Feb 22, 2024
Mississippi University for Women pauses name change again
COLUMBUS, Miss. (WJTV) - The president of the Mississippi University for Women (MUW) in Columbus announced the university will take a "strategic pause" as they work toward a future name change. This c...
Feb 22, 2024
Former Mississippi basketball coach sentenced for child exploitation
GREENVILLE, Miss. (WJTV) - A former Booneville High School assistant basketball coach was sentenced to 10 years in prison after he was convicted for online enticement of a minor. According to court do...
Feb 22, 2024