JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - Mississippi lawmakers reacted after Donald Trump became the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes Thursday. A New York jury found Trump guilty of falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through hush money payments to a porn actor who said the two had sex. [.]
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - U.S. Representative Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) has called upon the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to investigate the disappearance of Latasha Crump Coleman. The congressman said he was approached by Coleman's family, who are concerned about the possibility of the case going cold. The 46-year-old Jackson native was last seen on July [.]
WASHINGTON (WJTV) - On Friday, Medgar Wiley Evers will be posthumously receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Evers, a World War II veteran and civil rights leader, was assassinated on June 12, 1963, in the driveway of his home in Jackson, Mississippi. “My heart is full from the news of this extraordinary honor. My beloved [.]
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - The widow of the Belhaven man, whose body was found in the Pearl River in Lawrence County, responded to her brother-in-law's temporary restraining order against her. Karissa Bowley is the wife of Dau Mabil, who went missing on March 25 while he was walking in the Belhaven Heights area. His remains [.]
LAWRENCE COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) - There are still questions after a Belhaven man's body was found in the Pearl River in Lawrence County on Saturday, April 13. Lawrence County Sheriff Ryan Everett said when Dau Mabil's body was found in the river, they could tell his body had been in the water for a while. [.]