100 years ago
Nov. 26, 1916
PINE BLUFF -- Fire discovered shortly after midnight destroyed the two-story brick building and the stock of the Arkansas Mill Supply Company, at Third and Louisiana streets. The loss is estimated at $150,000, with $80,000 insurance. W. W. Brown of Camden is president of the Company and George Darby of Pine Bluff is manager. One wall of the burned building fell upon the roof of the adjoining one-story building occupied by the Puddephatt Furniture Company, a wholesale concern, and allowed the flames to enter that building, causing several thousand dollars damage.
50 years ago
Nov. 26, 1966
• A decision to annex a small segment of land at the end of West Markham by the Little Rock School Board was made in a closed session in August; the decision was rescinded at another closed meeting later, and an appeal from one of the affected residents was denied at still another closed session Oct. 27, it was learned today. The area contains only two families and three school-age children.
25 years ago
Nov. 26, 1991
• Two heavily armed men shot up an alleged gambling house Sunday afternoon and threatened to kill at least five patrons, police said. People in the house at 4401 W. 19th St., which police referred to as a "bootleg" house, were forced to lie on the floor as shots were fired overhead, according to police. Raymond Stovall Jr., 46, and Theodore Jenkins, 47, both of 1608 Grant St., were arrested after the ruckus began about 3:45 p.m. Sunday.
10 years ago
Nov. 26, 2006
• Standing in mud, Sheila Annable points to the two-story, steel-and-concrete shell of the state's new emergency operations center -- the smell of fresh tar permeating the air, bright white sparks from a welder flashing inside. She brags like a proud parent. "We've built it to withstand an F4 tornado," says Annable, the project coordinator, her voice rising as large machinery rumbles nearby. Built on a 20-acre hilltop site overlooking the golf course at Camp Robinson in North Little Rock, the center is not susceptible to flooding. Though it does not sit along the New Madrid fault zone, architects also designed it to withstand some shaking from earthquakes. And the windows are blast-resistant. It will include amenities far better than what the state's aging emergency operations center, one of the oldest in the nation, has to offer.
Metro on 11/26/2016