100 years ago
June 18, 1917
• The continued cool weather is causing concern among the farmers in Pulaski county, and a great many are of the opinion that the crops will be practicaly destroyed unless there is warm weather soon. On account of the late spring a number of farmers planted their crops a month late, and the cool weather that followed, coupled with unusually cool nights and cold rains, prevented the proper growth of seeds.
50 years ago
June 18, 1967
FORT SMITH -- The City Commission Friday put the non-uniform municipal employes under Civil Service and studied a request that members of the Police Department be given a 15 percent pay raise. The ordinance on Civil Service took effect immediately. It exempted 12 department heads and three secretaries of officials. The city has 531 employes, with 185 in the Police and Fire Departments already covered by Civil Service. Mayor James Yarbrough said the pay increase for police would cover 93 persons and would cost $63,000. He said the Fire Department asked for a similar increase.
25 years ago
June 18, 1992
HELENA -- Two people charged with capital murder in the stabbing death of a bank teller in Phillips County have been found competent to stand trial, but not competent at the time of the crime, records in circuit court show. Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Todd Murray has asked justices of the peace for $10,000 to re-evaluate capital murder suspects Bill Bowen, 26, and his mother, Cricket Tindall, 46. Bowen, Tindall and Cheryl Fiser Lobdill were charged in the Sept. 19, 1990 death of Connie Faye Vondron, 43, at the Delta State Bank at Elaine.
10 years ago
June 18, 2007
• When thieves burst into 1401 Northwick Court just before midnight on Christmas Eve last year, they were looking for drugs and money. And when Curlin McClain either couldn't or wouldn't answer the robbers' questions to their satisfaction, he was forced face down on the floor and shot in the throat. "After they shot him, they picked him up and started asking him again where the money and narcotics were," Little Rock homicide detective Tommy Hudson said. "They realized he was dead, so they dropped him." Nearly six months later, the case remains unsolved.
Metro on 06/18/2017