Here's the latest local and regional news from the Little Rock Public Radio Newsroom for Thursday, October 2, 2025.
- The Jacksonville/North Pulaski School District has been released from court supervision following a decades-long desegregation case
- Grassroots organizers are calling for the Trump administration to reverse decisions crippling food insecurity programs across the U.S.
- Little Rock's chief of police says he does not support permanently extending a youth curfew
- State lawmaker Carlton Wing has resigned his post to serve as head of Arkansas PBS
- The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has opened a new simulation lab for nursing students
- Anne Bartley, first woman to serve on an Arkansas governor's cabinet has died at age 81
- Arkansas LGBTQ+ Icon Norman Jones, also known by stage name Norma Kristie, has died at age 79
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.
