Dumas, MS

WEST POINT, Miss. (WTVA) - West Point police continue to investigate a shooting that happened Sunday evening at the Timberlane Apartments. According to the West Point Police Department, someone shot a Black male who was later discharged from the hospital in Tupelo. Investigators did identify persons of interest. As of...

SALTILLO, Miss. (WTVA) - On Monday the Saltillo Board of Aldermen approved the appointment of Daniel McKinney as chief of police. The Board also approved Jeff Brown as assistant chief of police. McKinney fills the vacancy previously held by Grant Bailey who resigned in May. - Saltillo police chief leaving...

The Rooster Run and Festival returned to Gift Bottom in Alcorn County on Saturday. “We started discussing it in December,” said Rooster Run Board President Vivian Moss. “We were just hoping we could do it and everything would come together.”. The Sixth Annual Rooster Run raised money for Crosswind Ministries,...

NEW ALBANY, Miss. (WTVA) - A collision Sunday afternoon in Union County killed a 21-year-old from New Albany. According to the Mississippi Highway Patrol (MHP), the two-vehicle collision happened at approximately 2:21 on Mississippi Highway 15. The two vehicles, an 18-wheeler and car, collided at the intersection of Highway 15...

On July 1, a new mayor and council will be sworn in for the city of Tupelo. For the next four years, these elected officials will be representing our citizens and making decisions for the betterment of our city. Their responsibilities are many, and their work is time consuming and difficult.

Linda Thompson, the longtime girlfriend of the “King of Rock and Roll” Elvis Presley, recently shared why the musician actually loved his impersonators. During the annual Elvis Festival at his birthplace, Tupelo, Mississippi, Linda spoke about how Elvis would be absolutely amazed to see the impersonators, also known as Elvis Tribute Artists (ETAs). The musician also would be “staggered by how incredibly generous” his fans have been to his memory. “[Elvis] loved the ETAs even when he was alive,” Thompson recalls. “He would see people growing sideburns or dressing like him and he would say, ‘Honey look at that guy over there, I wonder if he thinks he is me?’”

TUPELO, Miss. (WTVA) - WTVA anchor Daniella Oropeza is among 11 participants in the 2021 Dance Like the Stars event. These volunteer “celebrity dancers” will learn a professional ballroom dance routine alongside a professional partner from Tupelo’s The Dance Studio. The dancers then compete against one another on the dance...

About 15 Alcorn County residents on Saturday rolled up their sleeves at a Community Vaccination Clinic under the Corinth Housing Authority pavilion on Mitchell Street. “This was the perfect day to do this,” said event co-chair and Nehemiah Project representative Rebecca Spence. “It is Juneteenth. It is the perfect day to free yourself from the possibility of passing (COVID-19) onto family and friends.”

TUPELO, Miss. (WTVA) - WTVA chief meteorologist Matt Laubhan, meteorologist John Dolusic and anchor Emily Leonard are recipients of a 2021 Southeast EMMY® for their coverage of the EF1 tornado that swept through Tishomingo in March 2020. Laubhan was also honored as “Best Weather Anchor” in the 2021 Southeast Regional...