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JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - Interim Third-Party Manager Ted Henifin provided an update to the Jackson City Council about the sewage issues in the capital city. Henifin said tremendous progress has been made. This comes after JXN Water recently took over the city's sewage system. Henifin said a list of orders showed 219 dry weather overflow [...]

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - A Jackson State student started a petition in favor of giving Acting President Dr. Elayne Hayes-Anthony the job permanently. “Well, the petition was started because we were concerned about the next president of the university. But we were also trying to inquire that we are fine and accepting of Dr. Elayne [...]

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - Civil rights attorney Ben Crump will represent a Jackson woman who said her son died after being hit by a Jackson police officer. Crump said 37-year-old Dexter Wade left his mother's house on March 5, 2023, and did not return home. His mother, Bettersten Wade, said she reported him missing on [...]

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - As the General Election approaches in Mississippi, candidates are encouraging voters to go to the polls. On Thursday, the candidates spoke at the 2023 Mississippi Hobnob in Jackson. One of the most anticipated races of the year is the gubernatorial race. Incumbent Gov. Tate Reeves (R-Miss.) will face Democrat Brandon Presley [...]

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - On Thursday, October 26, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) offered federal help to the Jackson Public Schools (JPS) Board of Trustees in order to help with repurposing school buildings considered for closure. The congressman is concerned that the buildings left vacant would become eye sores overtime. "If the current buildings considered for [...]

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - Capitol police are investigating after a person was shot in the leg. The incident happened around 3:30 a.m. on Friday, October 27, 2023, near E. Capitol Street in Jackson. Police said they were notified by a concerned citizen that someone had been shot. Investigators said the victim, who was shot in [...]

Shocked and fearful Maine residents kept to their homes for a second night as hundreds of heavily armed police and FBI agents searched intensely for Robert Card, an Army reservist authorities say fatally shot 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar in the worst mass killing in state history.

A man paroled earlier this year after serving 18 years in prison for the double murder of his father and stepmother was arrested last week for driving under the influence. Now the family of one of his victims is questioning why the Parole Board decided to release him in the first place.  At the age [...]

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - A Terry man and a Jackson woman have been sentenced to federal prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 40 grams or more of a substance containing fentanyl. Tyunna Lamar Jordan, 32, of Terry and Mercedes Shykeria Mitchell, 27, of Jackson, were sentenced on October 26, 2023, in U.S. [...]

FLORENCE, Miss. (WJTV) - A home in Florence is not the kind of house you'd think is haunted or that anything out of the ordinary ever happened there. The home is in a quiet neighborhood and was built about 1990, but strange things happen at this house. They have since before there was a house [...]