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Daily Newscast for Friday, February 21, 2025

Here's the latest local and regional news from the Little Rock Public Radio Newsroom for Friday, February 21, 2025.

- Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed bills to provide free breakfast and to ban student cellphone use in Arkansas public schools

- A bill to require signs displaying information about the National Human Trafficking Hotline in certain places advanced to the full Arkansas House for a vote

- Former owners of Little Rock's Big Country Chateau apartment complex have been ordered to pay over $11 million in civil penalties

- Walmart's logistics team explains how the state plans for inclement weather

Listen to live newscasts from Little Rock Public Radio each weekday during NPR's Morning Edition from 6 to 9 a.m., during All Things Considered from 4 to 6 p.m., and online at littlerockpublicradio.org.

Nathan Treece is a reporter and local host of NPR's Morning Edition for Little Rock Public Radio.