Emergency response units access airplane wreckage in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington Airport early Thursday in Arlington, Va., after an American Airlines flight from Kansas collided with a helicopter while approaching the airport.
As NPR's Southern Bureau chief, Russell Lewis covers issues and people of the Southeast for NPR — from Florida to Virginia to Texas, including West Virginia, Kentucky, and Oklahoma. His work brings context and dimension to issues ranging from immigration, transportation, and oil and gas drilling for NPR listeners across the nation and around the world.
On today's show, a handful of special elections are scheduled for next week across the state for things like city bond issues and school district property taxes. Plus, national adoption month and the legacy of Western swing music in our region.
Ozarks at Large's Jack Travis speaks with Farmington public schools superintendent Jon Laffoon and director of safety and transportation Dean Campbell about the district engaging in a clean school bus program, utilizing electronic school buses.
Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams and the Pryor Center for Oral and Visual History's Randy Dixon discuss a mass shooting incident that occurred on July 24, 1984, at the Grand Central Motor Lodge in Hot Springs.