Category Archives: WJTV
How gas prices have changed in Mississippi in the last week
Gas prices are rising this week, driven 10 cents higher on average nationwide due to higher oil costs.A gallon of gas was $3.83 on average, according to AAA gas price data. Stacker compiled statistics...
Aug 05, 2023
Mega Millions jackpot now estimated to be largest in game's history
(NEXSTAR) - The current Mega Millions jackpot is estimated at $1.55 billion dollars, which would make it the largest in the game's nearly three-decade history. For now, though, that figure is only an ...
Aug 05, 2023
Mega Millions players spurned again as jackpot climbs to $1.55 billion
Another Mega Millions drawing, another night without a jackpot winner. The numbers drawn Friday night were: 11, 30, 45, 52, 56 and the gold ball 20. Because no one matched all six numbers and won the ...
Aug 04, 2023
Mega Millions: Here are the winning numbers for $1.35B jackpot
(NEXSTAR) - Friday's Mega Millions jackpot is a massive $1.35 billion, the fourth-largest prize in the game's history and the sixth-largest jackpot in U.S. history. Winning numbers for the August 4 ja...
Aug 04, 2023
Endangered Child Alert issued for Leakesville teen
GREENE COUNTY, Miss. (WHLT) - The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation (MBI) issued an Endangered/Missing Child Alert for 17-year-old Cortlen Landyn Moody, of Leakesville. Moody is described as five fe...
Aug 04, 2023
Mississippi lawmaker calls for probe into Rankin County Sheriff's Office
RANKIN COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) - The six former officers involved in the January abuse case of two Black men pled guilty to federal charges on Thursday, and one Mississippi lawmaker is calling for more a...
Aug 04, 2023
Court blocks Mississippi ban on voting after some crimes, but GOP official will appeal ruling
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi is violating the U.S. Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment by permanently stripping voting rights from people convicted of some felonies, a federal appe...
Aug 04, 2023
How 6 Mississippi officers tried to cover up their torture of 2 Black men
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Men who had sworn an oath to protect and serve were huddled on the back porch of a Mississippi home as Michael Corey Jenkins lay on the floor, blood gushing from his mutilated to...
Aug 04, 2023
VIDEO: Jackson police search for Sykes Road homicide suspect
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - Jackson police released surveillance video of the suspect in a recent homicide. Officer Sam Brown said the video shows the suspect who is wanted in connection to the homicide t...
Aug 04, 2023
Mississippi AG's Office opens probe of PAC supporting McDaniel
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - The Mississippi Attorney General's Office is investigating an out-of-state PAC and its creator, who have been helping State Senator Chris McDaniel (R-District 42) in his campai...
Aug 04, 2023