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Daily Newscast for Wednesday, July 3, 2024
Here's the latest local and regional news from the Little Rock Public Radio Newsroom for Wednesday, July 3, 2024. - Plaintiffs in a legal challenge to Arkansas' congressional redistricting have decided not to appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. - Arkansas is approaching a crucial deadline for petition...
Former Arkansas Sen. Joyce Elliott suffers stroke
Joyce Elliott, a former Arkansas state senator and prominent civil rights advocate, suffered a stroke this week while in Dallas, according to Get Loud Arkansas, her voter advocacy nonprofit. “The [Get Loud Arkansas] team truly appreciates everyone who has reached out to show support and love for Senator Elliott,” nonprofit...
Entergy Arkansas prepares to fill energy gap for when Independence, Redfield coal plants close
In a recently published Arkansas Business interview, Entergy Arkansas CEO Laura Landreaux said the state’s largest electrical utility should know by the end of 2024 what its replacement strategies will be when it shuts down its Independence County coal-fired plant in 2030. “That’s all under development now,” Landreaux told...
Arkansas Virtual Academy opens enrollment for the 2024-25 School Year
LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Arkansas Virtual Academy (ARVA), a full-time online public school serving K-12 students throughout the state, is now accepting enrollments for the 2024-25 school year. Open for 20 years, the academy is a full-time public charter school serving students in grades K through 12 with an...
Civil Rights Act 60th anniversary, local communities celebrate
(Little Rock, KATV) — "Today marks the 60th anniversary of civil rights act of 1964," Arkansas Martin Luther King Jr. Commission, Executive Director, Dushun Scarbrough said. Groups across the state have held ceremonies including the Martin Luther King Junior Commission right here in Little Rock. The passing of the...
Governor appoints Arkadelphia’s Tim Knight to state medical practice board
LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders this week announced appointments to various state boards. Among them is Tim Knight, of Arkadelphia, to the Osteopathic Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board. The term expires July 1, 2027. Knight is a professor of biology at Ouachita Baptist...
Arkansas groups not asking US Supreme Court to review ruling limiting scope of Voting Rights Act
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Progressive groups in Arkansas have decided to not ask the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on a lower court's ruling that private groups can’t sue under a key section of the federal Voting Rights Act. The Arkansas Public Policy Panel and the Arkansas...
Melon madness ahead of the Fourth
CAVE CITY, Ark. (KAIT) - A small town known for its homegrown watermelons is a hot spot for fruit lovers across Arkansas this summer. Darla Brown and her husband traveled to Brian Carter’s Cave City Watermelon stand on Wednesday, July 3. Brown said it’s where she has come for watermelons since she was a little girl.
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