100 years ago
April 15, 1918
• "Little Rock will have to subscribe liberally in order to uphold its reputation as the leading city in the state," W.L. Hemingway, state chairman of the Third Liberty Loan organization, said. "Very satisfactory reports have been received from many sections of the state," he said. "The farmers who were said not to have participated in the first and second Liberty Loans, have responded splendidly and are buying bonds in large numbers throughout the state."
50 years ago
April 15, 1968
• Senator John L. McClellan, at Little Rock during the congressional Easter recess, said that the only immediate solution to the problem of rioting in American cities was to "use whatever force is necessary and use it quickly." McClellan said a long-range solution would include putting agitators in jail. He mentioned black power advocate Stokely Carmichael. "It is people like these who are keeping the thing stirred up, peddling hate," he said. " I don't know why the Justice Department doesn't prosecute."
25 years ago
April 15, 1993
• FAYETTEVILLE -- A problem youth prompted the state Department of Human Services to ask Fayetteville police about placing an officer in charge of watching the 16-year-old at a hotel room until he is 18. "Every facility he's ever gone to he's been kicked out of because he is violent, " Fayetteville detective Shannon Gabbard said about the teen. "He's uncontrollable."
10 years ago
April 15, 2008
• Little Rock area hospitals no longer would be able to automatically divert ambulances from crowded emergency rooms under an ordinance before the city's Board of Directors tonight. "The main concern from the medical perspective is that we get the wrong patients to the wrong hospitals," said Dr. Marvin Leibovich, chairman of the department of emergency medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. "It's in the patient's best interest not to be diverted." Diversions have become all too common because of crowded emergency rooms. At any given time, 12-18 hospitals in the Little Rock area are on diversion status. Diversions cause problems when patients can't go to their regular hospitals, which have their medical histories, said Jon Swanson, executive director of the Little Rock-based ambulance service. Federal rules prohibit hospitals from selectively accepting some patients while diverting others.
Metro on 04/15/2018