100 years ago
May 29, 1917
• A movement has gained considerable impetus at Fort Roots whereby the students of the Officers' Reserve Corps plan to turn most of their first few months' salaries back to the government in exchange for Liberty bonds. The first $15,000 has been subscribed of a proposed total of $100,000. The first two days of the canvass has covered only two companies, and the amounts subscribed have averaged $75 per man.
50 years ago
May 29, 1967
• Governor Rockefeller said Sunday on a radio and television program produced by the Arkansas State AFL-CIO that his appointment of Dotson Collins as state labor commissioner was based on his personal acquaintance with Collins. Mr. Rockefeller made his comment on the program "Labor's Language." J. Bill Becker, president of the State AFL-CIO, asked for a comment on Collins' selection, saying that members of the AFL-CIO felt two names they submitted should have been given more consideration.
25 years ago
May 29, 1992
CONWAY -- Charges were dismissed Thursday against a former Faulkner County resident, more than seven years after authorities accused him of having one of the largest marijuana-growing operations in the state. Special Judge Lance Hanshaw of Cabot (Lonoke County) dismissed the charges against Richard Gooden, formerly of Mayflower, because of the delay in Gooden's retrial on the charges. Hanshaw noted that it has been more than four years since Gooden's first conviction was overturned in 1988.
10 years ago
May 29, 2007
• Little Rock residents could wage lethal critter crackdowns year round under a proposal headed to the city's Board of Directors. Under changes sought by the city's Public Works Department, professional exterminators could use traps to kill beavers, groundhogs, skunks and other "nuisance animals" during the spring and summer. Use of traps in the capital city is now off-limits during those seasons, except for mousetraps and humane traps that are used to relocate live varmints. But after regularly fighting off beaver dams that threaten city sewer lines and pose other problems, Little Rock wants to fight back a little harder.
Metro on 05/29/2017