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Daily Newscast for Friday, July 18, 2025

Here's the latest local and regional news from the Little Rock Public Radio Newsroom for Friday, July 18, 2025.

- A new report says a plan to provide water to a 3,000 bed prison facility in Franklin County is not sustainable

- A pretrial hearing for a man accused of perpetrating a mass shooting in Fordyce in June 2024 has been canceled

- U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton's reelection campaign has ended the second quarter of the year with nearly $9 million

- Entrepreneurial support organization the Venture Center has launched the nation's first Lithium Technology Accelerator program to bolster the lithium economy in southern Arkansas

- State elections officials have decertified an Izard County poll supervisor

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.