Category Archives: WJTV

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - The Two Mississippi Museums are now displaying the Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded to civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer. Hamer's Presidential Medal of Freedom was dona...

The photos were "previously inaccessible," FBI Director Kash Patel said Tuesday.

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - The trial for a former Jackson police officer, who was charged with killing a man in 2024, is underway. Opening statements were made in the trial of Marcus Johnson on February ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- A judge granted a motion to delay a convicted child sex offender's federal trial for the third time on Monday, according to court records. Lindsey Whiteside was originally set to go ...

CLINTON, Miss. (WJTV) - An 18-wheeler driver was injured during a road rage shooting on Interstate 20. Detective Tommie Brown, with the Jackson Police Department (JPD), said the driver was traveling o...

YAZOO COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) - A man was rescued after being trapped in a grain bin in Yazoo County. The incident occurred at a farm on Whites Lane Road around 3:30 p.m. on February 9, 2026. Yazoo Count...

COVINGTON COUNTY, Miss. (WHLT) - A Collins man died after a two-vehicle crash in Covington County. The crash occurred on U.S. 84 around noon on February 6, 2026. According to the Mississippi Highway P...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - Last week, Jackson Mayor John Horhn announced the appointment of Dr. RaShall Brackney as the next police chief of the Jackson Police Department (JPD). According to Horhn, Brack...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - Attorney General Lynn Fitch (R-Miss.) announced, in partnership with Ring (an Amazon Company) and the Mississippi Coalition Against Domestic Violence (MCADV), a new community i...

Savannah Guthrie said her family is at their "hour of desperation" in the search for their apparently kidnapped mother, but made no mention of possible ransom in a new video released Monday just hours...