100 years ago
Oct. 19, 1916
PARAGOULD -- At Malden, Mo., yesterday, Bud Echols, Iron Mountain engineer, running north out of Paragould, and Bob Sprinkle, a brakeman on the Cotton Belt local, became involved in a difficulty. Echols shot three times, all the balls taking effect in Sprinkle's left hand and arm. Echols was arrested and will be given a preliminary trial as soon as Sprinkle is able to testify.
50 years ago
Oct. 19, 1966
• The state Health Department cautioned the public Tuesday against buying "home cooking" from roadside stands. Creo A. Jones, director of the Division of Food and Drug Control, said that the roadside stands attract football fans traveling in the Ozark and Fayetteville areas. Jones said that these food outlets generally do not meet health regulations and that patrons risk food poisoning. "It is impossible to adequately control the food service operations along our state highways during such occasions with the limited staff of personnel available," Jones said.
25 years ago
Oct. 19, 1991
• Little Rock's bitter 12-year-old newspaper war ended Friday when Arkansas Gazette owner Gannett Co. Inc. formally surrendered. Arkansas Democrat Publisher Walter E. Hussman Jr. announced he paid $68 million to buy the assets of the competing Gazette, which published its last issue Friday. Hussman's newspaper will become known as the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette beginning today. "We are eternally united," Hussman said at a news conference Friday afternoon in announcing the arrangement.
10 years ago
Oct. 19, 2006
• Citing existing pollution and flaws in the applications, state environmental regulators rejected permits that two companies are seeking for new gravel-mining operations along Crooked Creek. Earlier this year the two companies -- Guy King and Sons Inc. and Mountain Home Concrete Inc. -- applied for permits from the state Department of Environmental Quality for in-stream gravel mining permits at three locations along the creek. Department Director Marcus Devine recommended Tuesday that all three requests be denied. Public comments will be accepted for 30 days before a final order, which can be appealed, will be issued. "It's a real denial," Devine said Wednesday. "I think it sends a strong message we really are committed to protecting our natural resources and this creek in particular."
Metro on 10/19/2016