100 years ago
Oct. 4, 1917
FAYETTEVILLE -- Alvey D. Brown of near Fayetteville, who was to have left tonight for Camp Pike for service in the National Army, is in a hospital with a gunshot wound in his foot today. Two toes were shot off. Brown told his brother that he had started for the woods to shoot a hawk. It is supposed that he rested his gun on his foot while climbing a fence and that the weapon was accidentally discharged.
50 years ago
Oct. 4, 1967
• A gunman robbed the First National Bank office in the Tower Building of more than $21,000 at 2 p.m. Tuesday while about 25,000 people lined downtown streets for the Arkansas Livestock Exposition parade. A suspect who had a pistol and about $21,000 in a black briefcase was captured without resistance in the liquor store in the Capital Hotel by Little Rock police at 2:32 p.m. The man who robbed the Bank office had been followed to the Hotel by a Bank guard and an employee of the Bank who went into the office to pick up the days receipts almost at the same time that the gunman was leaving.
25 years ago
Oct. 4, 1992
• State legislators will face the mounting costs of government with little revenue as they begin budget hearings this week. In general, state officials have two choices: contain costs and make cuts where necessary, or raise more money. Members of both the executive and legislative branch are advocating for the first course. "Things are going to be very tight," Lt. Gov. Jim Guy Tucker said Friday. "I am hopeful that we can control our budget costs, live within current revenues and will not require any tax increases."
10 years ago
Oct. 4, 2007
• Arkansas inadequately reimburses its foster parents, complicating the task of finding good homes for foster children, according to a first-of-its kind report released Wednesday. Only Arizona and the District of Columbia are meeting or exceeding standards set by the report, which was compiled by Children's Rights, the National Foster Parent Association and the University of Maryland School of Social Work. Titled "Hitting the MARC: Establishing Foster Care Minimum Adequate Rates for Children," the report represents the first state-by-state effort to calculate actual expenses of providing for foster children, from basic needs such as food and clothing to after-school sports and arts programs.
Metro on 10/04/2017