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Ozarks at Large Stories

COVID Cases Update, Runoff Election Required, FEMA coming to Arkansas

KUAF | By Kyle Kellams

Published December 15, 2021 at 12:28 PM CST

At the top of our midweek show, nearly 800 newly diagnosed cases of COVID-19 in the state in the last 24 hours, there will be a runoff for the GOP nomination for State Senate seat seven, and two teams from the Federal Emergency Management Agency are to begin assessing damage today in northeast Arkansas from last weekend’s devastating tornadoes.

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