100 years ago
Jan. 8, 1917
• A false alarm of fire, due to an accident to the electric wires connecting the bells at the School for the Blind yesterday morning, demonstrated that the buildings may be quickly and safely emptied. At the first alarm, which rang shortly after Sunday school exercises, Superintendent John H. Hinemon made a round of the buildings to discover the fire before turning in an alarm to the city department. Instead of fire he found that the students had quietly and promptly formed fire lines, under control of boys and were waiting the word to march out of the buildings.
50 years ago
Jan. 8, 1967
• A member of the state Publicity and Parks Commission disclosed Friday that he holds stock in corporations operating private marinas for profit on Dardanelle Reservoir land recently added to the state park system. The commissioner, C.R. Horne of Russellville, said that his holdings in the corporations and the marinas were not, in his judgment, in conflict with his role as a member of a Commission overseeing the state parks and the state publicity program.
25 years ago
Jan. 8, 1992
• Nine days after allegedly killing one person, wounding another and kidnapping a third, Bennie Lamar Cleveland, 26, of McGehee (Desha County) returned to Arkansas. Flanked by Tim Osborne of the McGehee Police Department and parole officer Danny Calvert, Cleveland arrived at Little Rock Regional Airport, Adams Field, about 10:15 p.m. Tuesday. Cleveland, 26, has been charged in the slaying of Michelle Nagel, 21; the kidnapping of his former girlfriend Paula Easter, 33; and the attempted murder of Willard Blackmon, all of McGehee.
10 years ago
Jan. 8, 2007
• Eight Arkansas charter school applicants risk losing federal funding if they go ahead with plans to give enrollment preferences to certain students, the U.S. Department of Education's top charter school official said. Dean Kern, director of the Education Department's Charter Schools Program, said federal guidelines do not allow open enrollment charters to grant automatic admission to the children of teachers, school board members, trustees or other volunteers. The guidelines do allow enrollment preferences for siblings of students already admitted and children of charter schools' founders, he said.
Metro on 01/08/2017