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JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - A local organization is working to heal parts of Jackson and bring about change. Bridging the Gap Outreach Ministries is working to better the streets of the capital city through prayer and community connections. "Out of the heart for believing that it's time for the church to come out of the [...]

The “Margaritaville” singer "passed away peacefully" on Friday.

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HUMPHREYS COUNTY, Miss (WJTV) - Humphreys County is going through a crisis after the county's liability insurance lapsed overnight. This means Humphreys County's inmates will be move to different facility, and the Mississippi Highway Patrol (MHP) will temporarily patrol the county roads. Richard Stevens, who is president of the Humphreys County Board of Supervisors, stated [...]

Singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett, who popularized beach bum soft rock with the escapist Caribbean-flavored song “Margaritaville” and turned that celebration of loafing into an empire of restaurants, resorts and frozen concoctions, has died. He was 76.

VICKSBURG, Miss. (WJTV) - A Vicksburg murder suspect was extradited back to the River City on Thursday, August 31. Vicksburg police said Quenterious “Woosie” Williams, 28, waived extradition in Texas. He was captured in Dallas, Texas, on Friday, August 25. Investigators said Williams was wanted in connection to the shooting death of Kelvion Winston, 26, [...]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The DeSoto County Sheriff's Department released a statement identifying the suspect killed in an officer-involved shooting in Southaven on Wednesday morning. Chief Deputy Justin Smith said that members of the DeSoto County Sheriff's Department SWAT team served a federal search warrant on behalf of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) at a home [...]

DESOTO CO., Miss. --- A DeSoto County school bus driver is on leave after she refused to let elementary school students off of her bus. A Facebook Live by Misty Grubbs shows the moments her fifth grader Bella Gibbs and other Center Hill Elementary School students were on a bus with a driver who was [...]

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - Jackson police are investigating after three men were injured during a shooting at an apartment complex. The shooting happened on Thursday, August 31 around 10:45 p.m. at Pine Ridge Gardens Apartments on Rebel Woods Drive. Officer Sam Brown said two men had been shot multiple times, and one man had been [...]

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - One local community activist held a news conference to address a raw sewage problem in West Jackson. What started as one little pothole has grown into a major sewage issue for residents in the area. The problem has attracted insects to the water-filled hole. Reset Jackson Founder James Hopkins said the [...]