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100 years ago

April 30, 1916

• J.H. Kuhen, alias J.R. Ross, alias Herbert Coon, and better known as "The Brass Kid," well known to local police as a "confidence man," and wanted here as a fugitive from the State Hospital for Nervous Diseases, is again operating his alleged schemes, according to circulars received by the police yesterday from the National Bureau of Criminal Identification at Washington. The circular says that Coon recently has operated a worthless check scheme that netted him about $600 in three days.

50 years ago

April 30, 1966

• The Arkansas Legislative Joint Auditing Committee has moved toward a deeper inquiry into the illegal salary raises given to Arkansas Highway Department employes last month. Representative Sterling Cockrill Jr. of Pulaski County, chairman of the Committee, released a letter Thursday "inviting" former highway Director Mack Sturgis, members of the Arkansas Highway Commission and others involved in the controversy to appear before the Committee May 27 to answer questions.

25 years ago

April 30, 1991

• A Little Rock man whose capital murder charges were reduced in exchange for his testimony against two co-defendants ended up Monday being the only one sent to prison: Pulaski County Circuit Judge David Bogard, under a negotiated plea, sentenced Grover Perkins, 33, of 2200 S. Valentine St. to 10 years in prison, with five suspended, for hindering the apprehension of Bobby Dale Williams. Perkins, Bobby Williams, 32, of Dorchester Drive and Dwayne Edward Williams, 31, of 716 Picron St. were all originally charged with capital murder in the April 14, 1990, shooting of Sammy Barrett, 41, of England (Lonoke County).

10 years ago

April 30, 2006

• The spiny green tendrils of coontail started marching across the 15,000-acre navigation pool at Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge earlier than normal this spring, spreading out from the shallow waters lapping the edge of the Grand Marais pier. "By midsummer it'll be to past that pier, almost so thick you could walk on it," refuge Manager Jim Johnson said as he stood on the pier in early April. The refuge outside Crossett is 25 river miles downstream from a proposed pipeline that has stirred debate across southern Arkansas. Some worry whether more pollutants winding up in the Ouachita River, which bisects the refuge, will make the problem worse. If built, the pipeline would carry treated wastewater from El Dorado and three companies roughly 23 miles overland to the Ouachita River.

Metro on 04/30/2016

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