Here's the latest local and regional news from the Little Rock Public Radio Newsroom for Monday, March 18, 2024.
- Lawmakers have initiated two investigations into the Arkansas Board of Corrections over the hiring of a special counsel to sue the state
- A production company agreed to pay the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office $1,000 per day to film inside a prison
- In the month after Sarah Huckabee-Sanders took office, changes were made to resources available to educators in the state
- A group is gathering signatures for a ballot initiative to add standards for private schools that receive tax dollars through school vouchers
- ArDOT is preparing for increased traffic around the April 8 total eclipse.
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