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100 years ago

April 17, 1918

ARKADELPHIA -- Jim Mann, a team boss of the Clark Lumber Company of this city, shot and instantly killed Sam Bullock, a negro farmer, here yesterday morning. It is alleged that Bullock had been stealing corn from the lumber company's barns. Mann had warned Bullock to stay away from the barns. Early yesterday morning Bullock was seen by Mann entering the lumber company's lots. It is alleged that Mann ordered Bullock out of the lots. It is alleged that, after a controversy, Bullock threatened to kill Mann, and started toward his house after a gun.

50 years ago

April 17, 1968

• The North Little Rock School District's freedom of choice desegregation plan does not go far enough fast enough to eliminate a dual school system, officials of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare told the School Board Wednesday. The HEW representatives, who appeared at a special meeting of the Board Tuesday afternoon, gave the Board until July 1 to come up with a new desegregation plan or face possible administrative or court action by the federal government.

25 years ago

April 17, 1993

• A bill granting immunity to medical providers and attorneys who voluntarily provide free services needs further study before becoming law, Gov. Jim Guy Tucker wrote in announcing the bill's veto. Tucker announced Friday his veto of House Bill 1292 by Rep. Charles Stewart of Fayetteville. He said legislators amended the bill and rushed it through the Legislature's waning days "with very little public debate and attention." "It may be legislation with substantial merit, but it represents a fundamental change in state law governing the standard of care by professionals," Tucker wrote.

10 years ago

April 17, 2008

• A Trumann woman who pleaded guilty to disclosing a patient's health information is the first person in Arkansas to be convicted under a 5-year-old federal law designed to protect patient privacy, authorities said Wednesday. Andrea Smith, a 25-year-old licensed practical nurse, pleaded guilty to wrongfully disclosing a patient's health information for personal gain, according to a statement from Jane W. Duke, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas. On Nov. 28, 2006, Smith accessed the private health information of an unnamed patient while employed at the Northeast Arkansas Clinic in Jonesboro, according to the Tuesday statement.

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