100 years ago
Sept. 7, 1917
ARKADELPHIA -- With hardly a flicker of an eyelash Alvin Hopkins, who has been on trial here charged with the killing of his wife, heard the jurors verdict of "not guilty" this afternoon at 2:25 o'clock. The jury had been out more than 23 hours. The first vote is reported to have been eight for acquittal and four for conviction. Late yesterday the jury came to the courtroom for additional instructions from the judge regarding circumstantial evidence. The case has been a difficult one for the jury in Hopkins' three trials because there was nothing but circumstantial evidence.
50 years ago
Sept. 7, 1967
• Law enforcement officers used bloodhounds and an airplane Wednesday afternoon to comb woods and fields in two areas, one east of Sweet Home and one east of College Station, for Booker T. McDonald, a suspect in the pistol slaying of a Little Rock policeman Saturday night. Like several other leads the police have followed since the search began, a tip by a Negro woman who said she saw the fugitive enter the woods failed to lead to his capture. The intensive manhunt was suspended shortly before dark, but several State Police units were left in the area in case McDonald was seen again.
25 years ago
Sept. 7, 1992
SILOAM SPRINGS -- Erma Isaac, 67, of Tulsa, was killed and two people were injured in an accident at Arkansas 412 and U.S. 59 in Siloam Springs (Benton County), the Arkansas State police reported. Edith Gadberry, 65, of Harbor, Wash., a passenger in Isaac's 1989 Honda Civic, and Larry Jackson, 56, of Nixa, Mo., were injured in the accident. Police said the accident occurred about 12:45 p.m. Friday when Isaac, who had been driving south on Arkansas 412, tried to turn around, and pulled into the path of a 1987 Isuzu van, driven by Jerry Bolin, 54, of Nixa.
10 years ago
Sept. 7, 2007
• A 21-year-old Little Rock man was fined $10,000 and sentenced to six years in prison Thursday for a May 2006 fatal shooting -- a sentence that makes him immediately eligible for parole. Derek Breon Bunch could have faced life in prison in the slaying of 21-year-old Dwight Lamar Coates, but a Pulaski County jury found that Bunch had not acted to deliberately hurt Coates when he fired a rifle into the car that Coates was riding in as the vehicle passed in front of Bunch's West 22nd Street home.
Metro on 09/07/2017