100 years ago
Sept. 9, 1917
BAUXITE -- Fire broke out in the plant of the Norton Bauxite Company here today, the entire old plant being destroyed with the exception of the engine rooms and offices, with a loss of more than $50,000. The costly generators were not damaged. The loss is covered by insurance. The plant was used to crush and calcine bauxite purchased from the American Bauxite Company. The calcined ore is shipped to Niagara Falls, where it is treated electrically and converted into aluminum.
50 years ago
Sept. 9, 1967
• Two persons, one of them a Little Rock police detective, were wounded about 6 p.m. Friday when police officers swapped shots with a man at 805 Townsend Street about two blocks north of Adams Field. Police Chief R. E. Brians said Detective Pete Evans was wounded on the right forearm when he approached a man sitting in a car in front of 805 Townsend and the man fired six shots through the left rear window of the vehicle. Evans also suffered lacerations on his face when he was struck by glass fragments, Brians said.
25 years ago
Sept. 9, 1992
• A North little Rock woman who admitted starving her baby because she resented him pleaded guilty Tuesday to first-degree murder and was sentenced to 40 years in prison. "I didn't feed him like I was supposed to ... I resented him being Darnell's baby," Tonya Rachel Flemmons said in a tape-recorded statement to police last year. Flemmons was referring to the baby's father, Darnell Boyd, her former supervisor at the McDonald's restaurant at Prothro Junction, Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Chris Palmer said.
10 years ago
Sept. 9, 2007
• Little Rock police arrested three men Friday afternoon and charged them in a Wednesday carjacking in the Bowman Heights section of west Little Rock. According to an arrest report filed on one of the suspects, the victim identified one of the men responsible for taking his car, keys, backpack and wallet outside his apartment building. The carjacking was similar to one that was spotlighted in an e-mail widely circulated in late August accusing police and news reporters of underreporting violent crime -- carjackings in particular -- in the city's River Market district.
Metro on 09/09/2017