Here's the latest local and regional news from the Little Rock Public Radio Newsroom for Tuesday, August 12, 2025.
- Lawmakers question prison officials over recent high-profile inmate escape.
- Judge rules Arkansas prisons must provide accommodations for Muslim inmates.
- Jacksonville woman arrested for impersonating Pulaski Co. Sherriff's deputy.
- Arkansas congressman seeks to reform environmental regulation process.
- Groundwater resources in Arkansas Delta are diminishing, state report finds.
- Mercy Fort Smith breaks ground on new cancer center.
- Former state lawmaker, higher education leader Lu Hardin dies.
- Welspun Tubular announces new $150 million facility in Little Rock.
- Arkansas Capitol to receive $3 million in security upgrades.
- New state law allows state auditor to automatically return unclaimed property to owners.
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