Here's the latest local and regional news from the Little Rock Public Radio Newsroom for Friday, April 4, 2025.
- State officials say no fatalities have been reported from Wednesdays storms; widespread damage in the towns of Almyra and Lake City
- Severe weather including tornadoes, large hail, flash flooding and river flooding is possible across much of Arkansas through Saturday
- A bill to alter how challenges to Arkansas laws progress through the judicial system advanced in the legislature Thursday
- Lawmakers have advanced a bill to require citizen-led ballot titles to be written at or below an 8th grade reading level
- A group of Arkansas faith leaders met at the capitol rotunda to protest a bill requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed on the walls of public spaces
- Lawmakers discussed a bill targeting out-of-state doctors who prescribe abortion-inducing medication on Thursday
- Lawmakers rejected a bill to increase the cost of phone calls for prisoners in Arkansas
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