Here's the latest local and regional news from the Little Rock Public Radio Newsroom for Thursday, November 7, 2024.
- Franklin County residents will get the chance to ask about a new prison proposed to be built within their community at a meeting Thursday night
- State regulators have declined to set a royalty rate for lithium extraction
- Issue 2 passed on election day, while voters in Pope county, where the issue was centered, voted against the measure
- Two of four candidates in Jonesboro will be heading into a runoff election in December
- Voters in North Little Rock have rejected a proposal to increase school funding
- Circuit Judge Casey Tucker has won her bid for a seat on the Arkansas Court of Appeals
- Voters in Wynne defeated a petition to recall Mayor Jennifer Hobbs, while in Parkin, voters recalled Mayor Diane Patterson
- Tony Rose and Karyn Maynard have won their respective races for seats on the Little Rock School Board
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