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Alex Holladay and Cordelia Smith-Johnson will face each other again in March’s regular primary
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Someone in Arkansas got a Christmas surprise, winning a $1.8 billion Powerball jackpot that was the second largest in the multi-state game’s history. -
Despite a 5% increase in its year-to-date homicide statistic, the city says overall crime is trending downward. -
Almost half of supervision cases over 10 years involved revoking parole and returning offenders to prison or giving them new sentences -
Eric Harrison joins LRPR to share upcoming arts and culture events on the Weekend Entertainment Roundup. -
Amid a nationwide driver shortage, commuters say they want more from Central Arkansas’ public transit agency. -
Fines and fees can prevent formerly incarcerated individuals from moving forward after release, advocates say -
Gil Gerard, a Little Rock native who played television’s hunky sci-fi hero William “Buck” Rogers soon after the Star Wars franchise took hold in the late 1970s, has died. He was 82. -
Parents and officials in the North Little Rock School District are at odds over a controversial plan to shield certain books from students. -
Relief unlikely to come soon due to 2023 Protect Arkansas Act -
Three special justices were appointed to replace three justices who recused themselves, including the chief justice
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Listen to Little Rock Public Radio's Daily Newscast for Monday, January 5, 2026.
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This is episode two of Shelved, a two-part series exploring book banning in two Arkansas libraries.
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Arts & Letters
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Does poetic constraint empower creativity? Known for her received forms like sonnets and sestinas, American poet A.E. Stallings joins us in the studio to discuss her book of selected poems, This Afterlife.
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