WLBT.com Staff

Faulty electricity is being blamed for starting an apartment fire in Vicksburg.

Mississippi Department of Corrections lifted the lockdown for all but four prisons.

The City of Jackson expects the Jackson Zoo to re-open this spring.

A teen was arrested after making a bomb threat toward a Vicksburg school.

The Hinds County Board of Supervisors voted to get rid of the current county administrator and board attorney.

Police said a pedestrian was hit at the corner of State Street and Silas Brown Street near 11:30 a.m.

A grand jury indicted a teen girl who is accused of killing her mother in Pike County in January 2019.

This after the escape of two inmates from the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman Saturday morning.

The man was pronounced dead on the scene.

From a nail-biting governor's race to the headline-grabbing murder of Ole Miss student Ally Kostial, these were WLBT's biggest stories of 2019.

December 24 represents the last Christmas shopping day of the year, and that was clear by the amount of people doi ng last-minute shopping Tuesday afternoon.

Hurst put the crime problem on the shoulders of Jackson's elected officials and Hinds County judges, saying they are denying their gun, drug and gang problems.

A local restaurant is working to keep hungry children fed during the holidays.

A person was hit and killed by a train in Mendenhall, Mississippi, on Friday.

Officers were called out sometime around 8:30 p.m., and were still searching the area at about 9 p.m. as detectives interviewed witnesses at the store.

One day after a WLBT 3 On Your Side report exposed poor conditions at a Jackson cemetery, city crews were out there improving those conditions.

Allyson Johnson, 29, was arrested Wednesday for her involvement in the murder. She’s charged with capital murder.

Two Mississippi State football players were critically injured in a crash Tuesday night, according to WCBI.

Jackson Police Department is on the hunt for a stolen produce truck.

Several tornadoes ripped through Mississippi on Monday, including tornadoes in Hinds, Lawrence, Jefferson Davis, Lee, and Amite counties.

Each ‘lamb’ on the tree represents a child in Central Mississippi who is in poverty this Christmas.

Adams Methodist Church on Jackson Liberty Road in Lincoln County was among 20 homes and buildings that were damaged in the county.

Tornadoes ripped through Mississippi and Louisiana Monday, leaving homes destroyed and multiple people injured.

This year, women made up 50.5% of all medical school students.

WLBT and FOX40 welcomed some very special guests to the studio Friday.

A Natchez man faces several charges in connection to a possible hostage investigation.

A 4-year-old in Arlington, Texas is celebrating Christmas by giving to others.

MDOT crews were out making sure roadways were safe for drivers, especially for drivers headed out Tuesday night.

Protesters gathered outside Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality on Tuesday morning to oppose another landfill in Madison County.

A male officer and a female driver were taken to the hospital with moderate but not life-threatening injuries.