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100 years ago

Aug. 3, 1916

• Crops in Pulaski county, especially in the vicinity of Little Rock, were benefited and many saved by the heavy rain which fell Wednesday evening about 6 o'clock and continued for more than two hours, according to H. S. Cole, local section director of the United States weather bureau. Rain which fell in other parts of the northern and central portions of the State at virtually the same hour did much to aid the crops, the section director avers.

50 years ago

Aug. 3, 1966

• Governor Faubus left to speculation Tuesday his role, if any, in the Democratic race for lieutenant governor. Last week Joe Basore of Cherokee Village, a candidate, charged that Mr. Faubus made calls on behalf of Claude Carpenter of Little Rock, Basore's opponent. "At the time the statement was made I had made no calls," the governor replied. "Have you made any calls since." "No comment," the governor replied. Carpenter, a former Faubus aide and until recently a $10,000-a-year state Commerce Commission attorney, led the ticket in the first primary. He and Basore will be in Tuesday's runoff.

25 years ago

Aug. 3, 1991

• Two men armed with handguns Friday morning monitored a police scanner while one stole money from two cash drawers in a Southwest Little Rock bank but passed up loot from the main vault. The two men, one of whom may have robbed the bank before, remained at large late Friday afternoon, said Lt. Charles E. Holladay, police spokesman. The amount of money taken in the robbery of Home Savings Association's southwest branch at 8405 Interstate 30 wasn't disclosed.

10 years ago

Aug. 3, 2006

• After failing to win federal approval of its state testing program, Arkansas education leaders announced Wednesday that they will immediately abandon the state's portfolio assessment system and use more conventional exams to test students who have limited English skills. Educators in districts with concentrations of students who are not native English speakers and are learning the language said the change could make it more difficult for their students to score at proficient levels on the state tests. That could increase the chances that a school would be placed on the state's school improvement list and penalized.

Metro on 08/03/2016

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