100 years ago
March 14, 1915
• Marvin Atkinson, former Argenta patrolman, will face trial tomorrow morning in the First Division of the Pulaski Circuit Court for the death of Roy Lindsey in Argenta on December 30, 1914. Atkinson is charged with second degree murder. He says he shot Lindsey in self-defense, while attempting to arrest him for a statutory offense. He says Lindsey attacked him with a knife.
50 years ago
March 14, 1965
• The regulations of the Arkansas Baptist Hospital School of Nursing have been changed to allow the admission of married women and to allow some students to live outside of the dormitories. Mrs. Mildred Armour, the nursing school dean, announced the changes to the students last week. By tradition, nursing students must remain single through their training and must live in dormitories under usually strict rules. Henceforth, married girls who meet other qualifications will be admitted to the school for training.
25 years ago
March 14, 1990
SEARCY --Managers of the Searcy Airport are temporarily grounded after members of the local Pilots Association stripped the terminal of its furnishings. "We're having to sit on the floor," said Rick Kent, manager and co-owner of Searcy Aviation, the company that took over management of the airport in January. The terminal had been furnished with loans of furniture owned by members of the White County Pilots Association. They took back their furniture last week because they were "ticked off" with the Airport Commission and Searcy Aviation, Jim King, the association's president, said.
10 years ago
March 14, 2005
• The May 24 death of a Sherwood man, shot by Sherwood police officers and a state trooper after a high-speed chase, has been ruled a justifiable homicide. Pulaski County Prosecuting Attorney Larry Jegley's investigation into the death of Damon Jermaine Moore, 26, and the police actions surrounding it ended last week, according to state police documents. The officers involved in the shooting -- Arkansas State Police Trooper Cpl. Jim Davis, 36, Sherwood Police Sgt. Scott McFarland, 41, and Ryan Baker, 28 -- were justified in using deadly physical force, Jegley wrote in a letter to Col. Steve Dozier, Arkansas State Police director. Jegley blamed the 10-month wait for a decision in the case on a backlog at the state Crime Laboratory that held up test results in the investigation.
Metro on 03/14/2015