Here's the latest local and regional news from the KUAR Newsroom for Monday, May 8, 2023.
On today's agenda:
-Education officials vote for an east Arkansas school district to be taken over by a charter school company
-Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders asks the Biden Administration for more funding for tornado cleanup
-State, local and federal officials celebrate a new fighter pilot training mission at a west Arkansas base
-An economist weighs in on unemployment, debt limit talks
-A 300-ton furnace is set to begin a nearly weeklong journey through southern Arkansas
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