Jackson MS

JACKSON, Miss.—John Evans didn’t know his bookstore, Lemuria Books, was about to become part of history when he walked into its 50th anniversary event on Saturday, April 11. While Lemuria’s employees learned the Jackson, Mississippi, store was set to be added to the Mississippi Writers Trail in January,...

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Construction is officially underway on a $55 million apartment complex in Jackson’s Fondren district, marking the third groundbreaking in the neighborhood in 2026 alone. Community leaders, developers and city, county and state officials gathered Thursday morning behind the Fondren Garage to celebrate the start of...

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Just days after it was signed by Gov. Tate Reeves, a new water authority board could be close to having its first member. On Monday, Reeves signed H.B. 1677, the Metro Jackson Water Authority Act. The authority, which will include a nine-member governing board, is designed...

With rising housing costs and interest rates, many people feel like the “American Dream” of homeownership is out of reach, but that’s not true everywhere. In certain places across many Southern states, including Mississippi, home costs remain relatively low. For nine Mississippi counties, buying a home is cheaper than renting, according to an April 13 study by Construction Coverage, a construction research company. Some...

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - More than a dozen former tenants are demanding the owner of an abandoned South Jackson apartment complex return their security deposits, months after the facility was ordered to be cleared out due to a lack of running water. In August, the Mississippi Home Corporation ordered owners...

RANKIN COUNTY – The Rankin County Sheriff’s Department said deputies searched a wooded area near the Bellegrove subdivision by the Reservoir after receiving a complaint about multiple unhoused individuals allegedly trespassing there, but no one was found. According to the sheriff’s department, a complainant reported multiple unhoused individuals...

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - A man has been arrested for setting his grandmother’s house on fire in Jackson. According to the Jackson Fire Department, the incident occurred on March 27 at the home located on Wellington Road. The man, Kahari Thicken, was arrested on Wednesday and was charged with...

HALLSVILLE, Texas (KLTV) - Vendors are setting up along U.S. Highway 80 for a sale that begins Friday and runs through Sunday. The sale stretches from the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex to Jackson, Mississippi. Tammy Edwards, a vendor who has participated since 1987, said she began setting up Thursday. “It usually...

JACKSON (GG) — Firefighter Class 220 of the Mississippi State Fire Academy is making a difference, and twenty-eight (28) members will graduate from the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 1010 Firefighter I-II course held at the Mississippi State Fire Academy in Jackson, Mississippi. In this graduating class, Corbin Adams...

Trace Carpenter led Jackson State with a top-20 finish at the SWAC Championships, as the Tigers placed seventh overall. The event was held at RTJ at Oxmoor Valley in Birmingham.