Jacob Gallant
Digital Content Manager
Memphis, TN

Jacob is a Digital Content Manager with over a decade of experience in local news, both in the Mid-South and Central Mississippi. After spending his childhood in Massachusetts, he moved to the Mid-South for his formative years and attended Mississippi State. (Go Dawgs!) He loves to cover news that impacts your day-to-day lives and loves to cover sports.
Education
Updated: Oct. 22, 2026 at 7:02 PM CDT
|By Jacob Gallant and Gray News staff
The Mississippi Department of Public Safety released new footage from the fatal shooting of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley.
Updated: Oct. 10, 2026 at 7:00 AM CDT
|By Jacob Gallant, Michaela Redmond and Akim Powell
The cause of death was revealed for two Ole Miss students in court proceedings.
Updated: Oct. 6, 2026 at 9:22 PM CDT
|By Jacob Gallant, Jared Thomas and Lydian Coombs
Chaos ensued during Tuesday night’s data center moratorium vote by the Memphis City Council.
Updated: Oct. 3, 2026 at 12:06 AM CDT
|By Kaitlyn Miller, Jacob Gallant and Gray News staff
Authorities investigating the deaths of two University of Mississippi students have charged a store clerk and his son with selling an illegal kratom product.
Updated: Sep. 30, 2026 at 9:17 PM CDT
|By Jacob Gallant
Law enforcement in Mississippi is calling on state lawmakers to ban synthetic kratom.
Updated: Sep. 25, 2026 at 3:06 PM CDT
|By Jacob Gallant and Dorothy Sedovic
A Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper returning from training was involved in a crash with a driver going the wrong way on the interstate Thursday.
Updated: Sep. 24, 2026 at 1:53 PM CDT
|By Jacob Gallant and Akim Powell
The two Ole Miss students found dead have been identified, according to officials.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2026 at 10:34 AM CDT
|By Hannah Kozlowski, Jacob Gallant, Melissa Daves and Debra Worley
Authorities are investigating after two University of Mississippi students were found dead in Oxford, with officials warning against unverified substances including kratom.
Updated: Sep. 11, 2026 at 5:03 PM CDT
|By Jacob Gallant and Akim Powell
Three people in Memphis are charged in the death of a 6-year-old-girl who died after being left inside a daycare van, according to authorities.
Updated: Sep. 3, 2026 at 12:43 AM CDT
|By Jacob Gallant, Joyce Peterson, Lydian Coombs and Gray News staff
The police chief of a Mississippi city where police shot and killed a 1-year-old Black boy in June has been fired over alleged racist text messages.
Updated: Jul. 24, 2026 at 1:31 PM CDT
|By Jacob Gallant and Gray News staff
A live iguana gave workers a shock at a Memphis FedEx store.
Updated: May 12, 2026 at 1:46 PM CDT
|By Hannah Kozlowski, Jacob Gallant and Akim Powell
Memphis Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke has died. He was 29.
Updated: May 8, 2026 at 8:47 PM CDT
|By Jacob Gallant and Brandy Beard
A Tennessee lawmaker is calling on the city of Memphis to secede from the rest of the state.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2026 at 1:01 PM CDT
|By Jacob Gallant and Amanda Alvarado
A man was arrested after police found a video of him sexually assaulting a 3-year-old, according to investigators.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2026 at 9:29 PM CST
|By Jacob Gallant
Nearly a dozen people were injured after two canopies collapsed at two different gas stations in a Mississippi city.
Updated: Jan. 6, 2026 at 10:28 AM CST
|By Jacob Gallant and Debra Worley
An infant was safely surrendered at a Safe Haven Baby Box at a fire station in Atoka, Tennessee, over the weekend.
Updated: Dec. 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM CST
|By Jacob Gallant and Dorothy Sedovic
A monkey that survived a truck crash in Mississippi in October is now living comfortably at an animal refuge.
Updated: Sep. 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM CDT
|By Joel Moore and Jacob Gallant
President Donald Trump says he is sending the National Guard to Memphis to help combat crime.
Updated: Sep. 12, 2025 at 11:25 AM CDT
|By Jacob Gallant
Memphis wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Jerry “The King” Lawler is recovering after suffering a stroke.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM CDT
|By Jacob Gallant, Kelli Cook and Andrew McMunn
A man in Tennessee is outraged following a horrific discovery regarding his mother’s death.
Updated: Jul. 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM CDT
|By Jacob Gallant and Akim Powell
Authorities in Tennessee are searching for the person who abandoned an infant in a stranger’s yard.
Updated: Jul. 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM CDT
|By Imani Williams, Jacob Gallant and Gray News staff
A high school football player was hospitalized for days after he passed out at practice due to heat exhaustion and dehydration.
Updated: May 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM CDT
|By Jacob Gallant and Akim Powell
Two deputies in Tennessee may soon lose their ability to work in law enforcement after allegedly bringing a drunk woman to a hotel after a traffic stop so one could have sex with her.
Updated: Mar. 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM CDT
|By Jacob Gallant
The voluntary manslaughter charge against David Swift has been dropped.
Updated: Mar. 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM CDT
|By Rose Johnson, Jacob Gallant, Imani Williams and Amanda Alvarado
A woman was charged in the death of a pastor outside of a bar early Wednesday morning.



































