Today's headlines from KASU News for Friday, January 17, 2025, include Arkansas lawmakers' efforts to ban pharmacy benefit managers from owning pharmacies, reactions to Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders' plan to streamline college admissions and impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients, and assistance for upcoming layoffs at a Paragould plant. Other stories cover legislative updates from the Arkansas House, Rick Crawford's new leadership post, litigation over the abortion pill, a federal grant for lithium extraction in Southern Arkansas, and flu-related deaths in the state. Also highlighted are educational programs for laid-off workers and an ongoing homicide investigation in Jonesboro.
00:30 Arkansas Lawmakers Tackle Pharmacy Benefit Managers
02:00 Arkansas Legislative Session Kicks Off
03:02 Arkansas Governor's Medicaid Work Requirements Proposal
03:40 Governor's Higher Education Plans
04:38 New Leadership in Arkansas Congressional Delegation
05:06 Federal Judge Allows Challenge to Abortion Pill
06:14 Lithium Extraction Project in Arkansas
07:07 Flu Season Update in Arkansas
07:33 Support for Tenneco Employees Amid Plant Closure
08:22 Double Homicide Investigation