100 years ago
Sept. 13, 1916
• George W. Hart and John and Jess Lemence, sentenced to the penitentiary in January last for the murder of Silas Church and the wounding of Selma Church, his wife, March 27, 1914, near Russellville, were pardoned yesterday by Governor Hays. Church was shot from ambush and his wife was wounded seriously. Hart was charged with first degree murder for killing Church and for assault with intent to kill Mrs. Church.
50 years ago
Sept. 13, 1966
• The state Board of Finance ignored Governor Faubus's recommendation for an even higher interest rate Monday and raised from 3 to 3¾ per cent the charge on state funds on time deposit in banks through the end of the year. This is surplus state money not needed for daily operation in the October-December period. The amount is to be determined within a few days by state Comptroller L. A. Mashburn. Mr. Faubus, with Mashburn backing him, wanted to charge banks 4 per cent for holding money for 90 days to less than a full six months.
25 years ago
Sept. 13, 1991
WEST MEMPHIS -- Foster parents are watching closely a $1 million lawsuit filed for a 9-year-old girl who was sexually abused while under state-supervised foster care. "Most of the rest of the foster homes around us said if the lawsuit goes through, we're getting out," Mike Teed, a longtime foster parent from West Memphis, said. Teed's wife, Susan, said foster parents fear that the case may set a precedent for foster parents to be held liable for anything that happens to a foster child under their care.
10 years ago
Sept. 13, 2006
MAYFLOWER -- The telltale signs of theft are all here: upturned soil, footprints, impressions from a rake. The crackled landscape left in the wake of the recent drawdown of Lake Conway is attracting looters hunting for American Indian artifacts, a problem the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission hadn't anticipated. "They don't have to dig very deep, you can see they just peeled this back," said lake manager Dustin Opine, standing Monday on a spit of land near Dix Creek that until July was underwater and pointing at a patch of shredded lyngbia, an algae that forms a thick brown mat over much of the old lake bottom and pulls apart like felt. Velvety clumps of the stuff lay in heaps a few feet from a decaying cypress, exposing sandy soil beneath.
Metro on 09/13/2016