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Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 12:55 PM CST
|By Anthony Warren
The bill will now go to the House for consideration.
Updated: Jan. 24, 2023 at 5:18 PM CST
|By Anthony Warren
Legislation has been introduced in both houses of the Mississippi Legislature.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2023 at 2:59 PM CST
|By Anthony Warren
Supreme Court yet to rule in mayor's challenge of lower court decision in veto case.
Updated: Jan. 18, 2023 at 2:16 PM CST
|By Anthony Warren
Carter was fired at the height of the water crisis, court records indicate.
Updated: Jan. 13, 2023 at 6:50 PM CST
|By Anthony Warren and Christopher Fields
Greyhound lists Livingston Road as a bus stop on its website.
Updated: Jan. 10, 2023 at 11:59 AM CST
|By Anthony Warren
Payne is facing an additional aggravated robbery charge in Texas.
Updated: Jan. 9, 2023 at 9:56 PM CST
|By Anthony Warren and Brendan Hall
North Jackson residents support idea, saying it could simply city's troubled billing system.
Updated: Jan. 9, 2023 at 3:11 PM CST
|By Anthony Warren and C.J. LeMaster
Johnson facing multiple felony counts in connection with misusing election grant money.
Updated: Jan. 5, 2023 at 1:23 PM CST
|By Anthony Warren
Public Works has had four directors in three years.
MDEQ director: ‘NAACP failed to allege a single fact to support’ state discriminated against Jackson
Updated: Jan. 5, 2023 at 9:46 AM CST
|By Anthony Warren and Quentin Smith
EPA looking into whether state agencies violated Civil Rights Act in denying federal funding to Jackson.
Updated: Jan. 3, 2023 at 2:34 PM CST
|By Anthony Warren
Bear came to the Jackson Zoo last year after being hit by a car.
Updated: Jan. 2, 2023 at 2:49 PM CST
|By Anthony Warren
Robinson named MVP following MSU's 19-10 victory over Illinois in the ReliaQuest Bowl.
Updated: Jan. 1, 2023 at 1:41 PM CST
|By Anthony Warren
Customers impacted include those in central, west and south Jackson.
Updated: Dec. 30, 2022 at 10:18 PM CST
|By Anthony Warren
Jackson water crisis leaves tens of thousands of people without water.
Updated: Dec. 28, 2022 at 2:17 PM CST
|By Anthony Warren
Judge had appointed a receiver to take over the Raymond facility on January 1.
Updated: Dec. 25, 2022 at 12:34 PM CST
|By WLBT Staff and Anthony Warren
The sheriff said Traverro McElroy, 36, and Tyler Charles Payne, 31, were missing during Sunday morning’s headcount.
Updated: Dec. 14, 2022 at 2:02 PM CST
|By Anthony Warren
Loden will be the first person executed in Mississippi in about a year .
Updated: Dec. 14, 2022 at 11:58 AM CST
|By WLBT Staff, Anthony Warren and Courtney Ann Jackson
Thomas Loden has been on death row since 2001.
Updated: Dec. 13, 2022 at 10:00 AM CST
|By Anthony Warren and Quentin Smith
Athletes, journalists, politicians and coaches share their memories of Mike Leach.
Updated: Dec. 12, 2022 at 10:54 AM CST
|By Anthony Warren
Football world reacts to Mike Leach's condition.
Updated: Dec. 7, 2022 at 4:37 PM CST
|By Anthony Warren
Espy becomes the organization's first Black chairman.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2022 at 1:22 PM CST
|By Anthony Warren
Third-party will have sweeping powers, if approved by the court.
Updated: Nov. 22, 2022 at 6:03 PM CST
|By Anthony Warren
Reeves calls on federal government to continue process of taking over Jackson's water system.
Updated: Nov. 14, 2022 at 4:05 PM CST
|By Anthony Warren
Jackson in talks with EPA and DOJ on plan to address water woes.
‘Here we go again’: Coach Prime calls for Governor, Mayor to ‘huddle up,’ fix Jackson’s water crisis
Updated: Nov. 10, 2022 at 7:22 PM CST
|By Garrett Busby and Anthony Warren
In a video posted on social media Thursday, Jackson State University football coach Deion Sanders says the university is again without water and is urging the two elected leaders to put their differences aside to do what’s best for the people of Jackson.
Updated: Nov. 8, 2022 at 12:52 PM CST
|By Anthony Warren
Preston Hart, 29, was captured by the Hinds County Sheriff’s Office at “an undisclosed location," Thursday morning.
Updated: Nov. 8, 2022 at 12:33 PM CST
|By Anthony Warren
The bear was donated by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.
Updated: Nov. 7, 2022 at 12:17 PM CST
|By Josh Carter, Anthony Warren and Debra Worley
Officers with the Jackson Police Department found a charred arm on the road and more of the body later in a wooded area behind a nearby abandoned home.
Updated: Nov. 7, 2022 at 10:44 AM CST
|By Josh Carter, Anthony Warren and C.J. LeMaster
Victim's body found behind abandoned home on Terry Road.
Experts tell fossil hunters to use caution exploring newly exposed spots along the Mississippi River
Updated: Nov. 1, 2022 at 7:05 PM CDT
|By Anthony Warren
Quicksand, dehydration and wild animals are among threats visitors to the receding river could face.
Updated: Oct. 28, 2022 at 4:24 PM CDT
|By Anthony Warren
Reeves extends state of emergency for an additional five days, to give more time to transition Jackson water from state management team to private operators.
Updated: Oct. 27, 2022 at 5:02 PM CDT
|By Anthony Warren
State health officials tout early successes with the program.
Updated: Oct. 24, 2022 at 10:18 PM CDT
|By Anthony Warren and Brendan Hall
An estimated 800 people turned out to hear from Rep. Bennie Thompson and NAACP representatives about the future of Jackson water.
Updated: Oct. 24, 2022 at 3:53 PM CDT
|By Anthony Warren and Roslyn Anderson
Mayor, governor ratchet up rhetoric in public feud tied to ongoing city water crisis.
Updated: Oct. 21, 2022 at 4:32 PM CDT
|By Anthony Warren and Courtney Ann Jackson
Investigations come weeks after state steps in to help Jackson during its most recent water crisis.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2022 at 4:36 PM CDT
|By Anthony Warren and Quentin Smith
Move comes as Congress also is looking into state's 'disinvestment' into Jackson water.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2022 at 12:48 PM CDT
|By Anthony Warren and Brendan Hall
Says system will likely fail again once the city takes it over.
Updated: Oct. 17, 2022 at 7:20 PM CDT
|By Anthony Warren
The investigation comes amid Jackson's ongoing water crisis.
Updated: Oct. 17, 2022 at 1:02 PM CDT
|By Anthony Warren, Josh Carter and Brendan Hall
Gov. Reeves says he was informed mayor would no longer cooperate with team working to restore, stabilize Jackson water.
Updated: Oct. 7, 2022 at 12:45 PM CDT
|By Anthony Warren
Vote comes less than two weeks after the city learned DOJ was prepared to take legal action against the city under the Safe Drinking Water Act.
Updated: Oct. 6, 2022 at 7:08 PM CDT
|By Anthony Warren and Holly Emery
Richard's Disposal says it hasn't been paid in the six months it started collecting waste in Jackson.
Updated: Sep. 30, 2022 at 1:37 PM CDT
|By Anthony Warren
Funds will go to the Corps of Engineers, which will partner with Jackson on how to use them.
Updated: Sep. 29, 2022 at 5:14 PM CDT
|By Anthony Warren and Holly Emery
Officials are worried that the city will shut their water off.
Updated: Sep. 27, 2022 at 6:31 PM CDT
|By Anthony Warren
Jackson is facing tens of millions of dollars in needs at its O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant.
Updated: Sep. 26, 2022 at 11:58 AM CDT
|By Anthony Warren and Courtney Ann Jackson
Approximately 300 boil water notices reported in Jackson in last two years, EPA says.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2022 at 6:57 PM CDT
|By Courtney Ann Jackson and Anthony Warren
State has spent more than $191K to make emergency repairs at Curtis plant.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2022 at 2:44 PM CDT
|By Anthony Warren and Joseph Doehring
County administrator says the county will look at increasing pay in the next budget year.
Updated: Sep. 19, 2022 at 5:22 PM CDT
|By Anthony Warren
It targets current and former mayors, former public works directors, and two contracting firms.
Updated: Sep. 15, 2022 at 12:58 PM CDT
|By Anthony Warren and Sharie Nicole
State-run drinking water distribution sites will operate through Saturday, MEMA says.
Updated: Sep. 14, 2022 at 4:29 PM CDT
|By Anthony Warren and Quentin Smith
More drama unfolds between former Jackson Public Works employees.
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