100 years ago
March 10, 1917
• HARRISBURG -- The murder case of R. M. Quirles, aged 19, which has occupied the court for two and a half days, was finished last night. Quirles was sentenced to 10 years in the penitentiary. He stabbed and killed Buster Corgan at Lepanto in the fall of 1915. At that time he was only 18 years old. Ed Smith, negro, pleaded guilty to murder this afternoon and was sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary. J. L. Douglass, who killed a man at Trumann soon after the last November election, was not indicted, the Grand Jury being convinced by the evidence that Douglass was justified.
50 years ago
March 10, 1967
• Governor Rockefeller said Thursday that he believed SB 350 to create a five-man Arkansas Dairy Commission to fix prices of milk and milk products was not a good measure but he would let it become law without his signature. He said he had misgivings about this decision. The House completed action on the bill a week ago and it was delivered to the governor Saturday.
25 years ago
March 10, 1992
• U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright on Monday conditionally approved the selection of the Ninth Street Park at Ninth and Pulaski streets as the site for a new Little Rock interdistrict elementary school. Wright issued the order at the end of a three-hour court hearing on possible sites for a new Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School. Almost 700 pupils from Central Little Rock and the Pulaski County Special School District will attend the school when it is completed in August 1993.
10 years ago
March 10, 2007
• A Little Rock teenager who claims he was forced to participate in a December bank robbery where shots were fired lost an effort Friday to have his case transferred to juvenile court. Pulaski County Circuit Judge John Langston, citing the violence of the holdup, declined to transfer the case involving 17-year-old Ray Lewis Jr., though he did agree to reduce Lewis' bail from $250,000 to $100,000. Defense attorney Greta Harvey Falkner said Lewis would be a good candidate for the juvenile justice system. "There is rehabilitation available for Mr. Lewis," she told Langston. "I think there is a great deal of hope in transferring Mr. Lewis."
Metro on 03/10/2017