Christopher Fields

BYRAM, Miss. (WLBT) - Byram Mayor Richard White is defending his police department after Piney Woods School officials criticized a raid on campus connected to the death of school employee William Boland.

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) -Grassroots organizations held a town hall Monday night to lay out a plan to combat crime in Jackson.

A Jackson family is still searching for answers one year after their loved one was killed in a hit-and-run. Renardo Henderson, 41, was killed in a hit-and-run near Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson Road on Aug. 31, 2025, in Presidential Hills.

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - The Southern Poverty Law Center released a new database Wednesday tracking deaths in Mississippi jails and prisons.

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - A hit-and-run driver killed 56-year-old Pamela Ellis early Sunday morning in a north Jackson neighborhood, according to Jackson police.

SIMPSON CO., Miss. (WLBT) -The Highway 149 bridge in Simpson County reopened Tuesday, nearly two years after a bridge collapse killed three construction workers.

GREENWOOD, Miss. (WLBT) - A new exhibit at the Museum of the Mississippi Delta is telling the story of Sept. 11, 2001, through the experiences of three Mississippians who lived it firsthand.

The city's top cop said during a press conference on Friday that JPD secured two search warrants and an arrest warrant for a man identified as Jacque Ratliff.

Tasia Fortune, 29, was discovered hanging behind a vacant home in Jackson on July 31. (Source: WLBT)

/Gray News) - A man has been arrested in connection with the death of a woman who was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi.