100 years ago
Aug. 21, 1917
• Two modern, concrete bridges will span the Arkansas river, one at the foot of Main street and the other at the foot of Broadway. Work on the Broadway bridge will be started within three weeks, while the Main street structure will not be started until the sub-structure of the Broadway bridge is completed, about December 15. According to an agreement reached at a conference last night between promoters of the two bridges and County Judge Lee Miles, Pulaski County will contribute $450,000 toward building the two structures, each receiving $225,000.
50 years ago
Aug. 21, 1967
• C.H. Jones, editor of the Southern Mediator Journal, urged about 100 Negro residents in the Marche community northwest of North Little Rock Sunday afternoon to "storm the courthouse to let them know you are interested" when a 25-year-old white man is tried on a charge of raping a 12-year-old Negro girl in the nearby Palarm community June 24. Jones also told the group that he had sent a request to Washington for federal authorities to investigate North Little Rock Memorial Hospital for allegedly refusing to give the victim emergency treatment.
25 years ago
Aug. 21, 1992
ARKANSAS CITY -- Meanness caused a woman to pour a hot mixture of grits, grease and syrup on her former boyfriend, set fire to his house and threaten to kill him, a prosecutor said. Karen Thomas was convicted of first-degree battery Wednesday by a Desha County jury and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. She was also convicted of reckless burning and witness tampering and fined a total of $16,500. The jury rejected an attempted capital murder charge against the woman. She originally was charged with arson, terroristic threatening, intimidating a witness and first degree battery.
10 years ago
Aug. 21, 2007
• The Arkansas Parole Board rejected a convicted murderer's request for clemency Friday, 32 days before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection. Copies of the board's recommendation to Gov. Mike Beebe to deny clemency to Terrick Terrell Nooner were released Monday. Nooner, 36, was convicted in 1993 of capital murder in the death of Scot Stobaugh, a 22-year-old college student who was shot seven times in the back during a robbery of the Funwash coin-operated laundry on West Markham Street.
Metro on 08/21/2017