100 years ago
April 9, 1917
STUTTGART -- Night Officer C. C. McCallister and Deputy Constable Glover early today arrested Claude Parker, the convict who escaped last Friday from the state convict farm at Tucker during the battle in which one man was killed and five wounded. He will be returned to the officers at the farm tomorrow. Parker was arrested as he was walking into town along the railway track. The officers had been told that he was coming toward Stuttgart, by a merchant at Goldman. Last night Parker went into the merchant's store at Goldman and tried to buy a pair of trousers. The merchant noticed his prison garb, and later phoned the officers to be on the lookout.
50 years ago
April 9, 1967
• The nation's major trucking companies Saturday ordered a shut down of two-thirds of the industry's operations in retaliation for a series of local strikes by the Teamsters union. Trucking Employers, Inc., a coalition of 1,500 truck operators, announced that it would lock out more than 200,000 union members in a step that poised the nation on the edge of the most paralyzing trucking tie-up in history.
25 years ago
April 9, 1992
• Little Rock and Pulaski County officials met Wednesday to view a preliminary concept for a joint regional park at the confluence of the Arkansas and Little Maumelle rivers. Tentatively named Two Rivers Regional Park, the peninsula area includes the site of the old Pulaski County penal farm, near the Interstate 430 bridge's south end. Ownership of the approximately 1,000 acres is about evenly divided between city and county.
10 years ago
April 9, 2007
• Bull Shoals Lake would provide drinking water to thousands of people in north-central Arkansas under a proposal by 22 community water associations. These groups have combined to form the Ozark Mountain Regional Public Water Authority. The new entity is seeking regulatory approval to pump water from the lake, which is a federal reservoir, for areas of Boone, Newton and Searcy counties whose current water supplies are either inadequate or contaminated. The roughly $50 million project would provide safe and reliable water to about 21,000 people, according to the project engineer, Tim Mays of Engineering Services Inc. in Springdale.
Metro on 04/09/2017