TUPELO, Miss. (WTVA) — A former youth minister in Mississippi pleaded guilty to a child sex crime. Alexander Blackwelder pleaded guilty to sexual battery as a person of authority on Wednesday, Feb. 12 ...

The Mississippi House of Representatives honored the life and service of a local police officer killed in the line of duty. The State House convened Monday afternoon at the Mississippi Capitol. They ...

Our office thanks Det. Hal Veal with the Tupelo Police Department as well as Inv. Rachel Clock with the Lee County Sheriff’s Department ...

WINONA, Miss. (WTVA) — Montgomery County is working to add 10 public shelters. Surprisingly, the county of almost 10,000 ...

Panola County officials made an unorthodox demand of the county’s ambulance service last month: stop picking patients up from ...

Memphis and Shelby County formally affirmed their “sister city” relationship with a longtime cultural ally, Porretta Terme, a village in Italy.

TUPELO, Miss. (WTVA) — An October burglary of a storage unit in Tupelo resulted in a February arrest. The break-in happened ...

We are becoming a more urban nation. People are moving into cities and cities are expanding, but we need to do so sustainably.” This is Caroline Ingram with the Green Infrastructure Center and with ...

A former Mississippi youth pastor has been sentenced after pleading guilty to having sex with a 16-year-old church member.

The Mississippi House has passed a bill that would direct the state Department of Health to conduct a sweeping review of the medical care provided to prison inmates.

Disaster relief funds Monroe County is expected to share in are still on track, Mayor Corey Glenn told members of the board ...