100 years ago
April 15, 1917
• Under the authority vested in it by the 1917 legislature, the Arkansas Tax Commission yesterday declared 50 per cent of the actual value the basis of assessment in Arkansas for the year 1917. Hitherto, although the statutory requirement has been that property shall be assessed at full value, actual assessments have ranged from 25 to 70 per cent, the majority of counties, however, assessing at about 50 per cent.
50 years ago
April 15, 1967
EL DORADO -- Elvin Wade Eaves, 43, of El Dorado, subject of a two-day search in connection with the alleged kidnapping and holdup of a local businessman, George C. James, was arrested at a Shreveport, La., motel early Friday morning. Louisiana authorities said Eaves was not armed and offered no resistance. Union County Sheriff H. H. (Homer) Pirtle and Detectives R. E. Pennington and Robert Calhoun went to Shreveport Friday morning to return Eaves to El Dorado if he agrees to sign extradition papers.
25 years ago
April 15, 1992
• The cause of the fire that destroyed North Little Rock's McCain Professional Building remains undetermined as investigators continue a process of elimination. "So far, we just haven't found any answer to that fire," North Little Rock Fire Marshal Bob Wilson said Tuesday. Since the April 3 fire, investigators have painstakingly cleared and sifted through debris looking for clues to the cause of the devastating fire that displaced the offices of 15 medical professionals and a pharmacy.
10 years ago
April 15, 2007
• More than two years ago, a single-engine aircraft was seen circling midday over the state's most populous city before it disappeared from radar, presumably into a swirling, murky Arkansas River. It's never been found. "That's incredible," said state Sen. Dave Bisbee, R-Rogers, who flew his Bonanza into Little Rock National Airport, Adams Field, minutes before the Cessna 182 was supposed to land on Jan. 10, 2005. "That's a pretty good hunk of metal down there." The popular high-performance personal aircraft crashed in the afternoon -- a testament to the power of the dark, fast-moving river in an age of Global Positioning System satellites and advanced rescue and recovery equipment and personnel.
Metro on 04/15/2017