Here's the latest local and regional news from the Little Rock Public Radio Newsroom for Tuesday, May 19, 2026.
- Members of a legislative committee heard testimony on the Arkansas Excellence in Teaching Fellowship program on Monday morning
- Arkansas’ attorney general is once again calling for a lawsuit against the state Board of Corrections to be dismissed
- A caravan of motorcycles made its way through central Arkansas on Sunday as part of the annual 'Run for the Wall' event
- Arkansas turkey hunters killed just over 13,500 birds during this year’s spring season, the state’s highest turkey harvest since 2006
- A member of the Walton Family wants to reduce the nation’s maternal mortality rates by half in the next five years through the "Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America" campaign
- The leader of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock campus is retiring at the end of the next school year
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