100 years ago
Oct. 9, 1917
NEWPORT -- Crazed with jealousy which is believed to have unbalanced his mind, Frank Johnson, negro, 28 years old, after shooting his wife to death in their home, eight miles south of Newport, yesterday, went to the home of his brother, a short distance away, killed Bernie Sutton, a negro man, wounded his sister-in-law, Lortie Johnson, and then turned his rifle on Arthur Crump, another negro, who was shot in the hand.
50 years ago
Oct. 9, 1967
JONESBORO -- Lee Ward said on television here Sunday that the United States should get out of Vietnam. Ward, a candidate for Governor in 1958, said that most Americans were sympathetic to oppressed people and South Vietnam was the victim of oppression by the North, but that the United States had no business trying to correct all the wrongs in the world. Ward, who visited South Vietnam last year, said Ho Chi Minh was guilty of unjustifiable aggression. Ward said that world conditions had changed and suggested that it has not a foregone conclusion that the fall of South Vietnam would lead to a Communist threat to American security.
25 years ago
Oct. 9, 1992
• The lawsuit over a Benton man's death after a confrontation with a state trooper was settled Thursday as jurors neared their seventh hour of deliberation after a seven-day trial. Though attorneys for the state and the family of Gary Randall Rhodes wouldn't discuss the terms of the settlement, statements by the attorneys implied that state police agreed to policy changes regarding emergency medical treatment. Rhodes, 51, died Sept. 8, 1989, of spinal cord injuries at John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital at Little Rock.
10 years ago
Oct. 9, 2007
• A man who police say was caught breaking into cars in the River Market District, an accused shoplifter and a man accused of stealing jewelry from a neighbor's house are among the first prisoners to be transferred from Little Rock to the Faulkner County jail under an arrangement to help lock up nonviolent offenders who would otherwise be set free. The transfers are Little Rock's temporary solution to a lack of space and manpower at the Pulaski County jail, which is closed to most nonviolent offenders. Faulkner County, which built a new jail last year, has agreed to take up to 30 Little Rock prisoners and house them for $30 per inmate per day.
Metro on 10/09/2017