100 years ago
Aug. 12, 1917
• Five children, varying in age from two to 13 years, who say their names are LeRoy, Lucy, Jimmie, Gilbert, and Ethel Hillman, were put off a train from Pine Bluff at the Rock street station Tuesday night. They were taken to the Juvenile Detention home and they have spent the week there. All efforts to locate their parents have failed. It was believed that their father might be at work at the cantonment, but it has been ascertained that no man of that name has been employed there. According to Jimmie, the oldest boy, the children's home has been at Mist, where their father has been doing carpenter work.
50 years ago
Aug. 12, 1967
CONWAY -- The debate over whether the state's new revenue laws will provide $500 raises for the teachers in each of the next two years, which dominated the closing days of the legislature in March, was resurrected at an Arkansas Education Association conference here Friday. Senator Clarence E. Bell of Parkin told AEA leaders that his analysis of the state's revenue picture still led him to question whether the Public School Fund would get enough money for the promised $500 raises.
25 years ago
Aug. 12, 1992
BENTON -- John Floyd Young of Missouri may have forfeited his immunity from prosecution on murder charges by not cooperating with authorities, a Saline County Circuit judge ruled Tuesday. Young will remain in jail until the matter is resolved, Circuit Judge John W. Cole of Sheridan (Grant County) ruled. Cole will schedule a hearing for next week to hear witnesses and review evidence on Prosecuting Attorney Dan Harmon's motion to revoke Young's immunity. Harmon filed his motion after Young declined to take a polygraph test.
10 years ago
Aug. 12, 2007
BENTONVILLE -- Dave Routon's been on a mission to get the issue of packaged-liquor sales on the ballot in Benton County since 2005. He expects Citizens for Choice, his latest group, to succeed where previous efforts failed. Alcoholic drinks are available at more than 100 private clubs in Benton County, earning it the unofficial title of "wettest dry county" in the state because packaged-liquor sales have been prohibited in the county since 1944. Efforts over the past seven decades to get the issue on the ballot failed. But Routon said he believes Citizens for Choice has a strategy that will increase public awareness of the issue and bring the matter to a vote.
Metro on 08/12/2017