100 years ago
April 23, 1918
PINE BLUFF -- Alf Blackwell, a negro constable from Moscow, was arrested here today by Constable C. C. Green and deputies on a charge of transporting whiskey through the city. The officers seized 24 quarts of whiskey, one quart of gin and one quart of alcohol. The negro officer was fined by Judge Earl Wood in Municipal Court.
50 years ago
April 23, 1968
• Five grey wolves were born Sunday at the Little Rock Zoo, Director Raymond Squires said Monday. It was the first time that a litter of wolves had survived. Usually, the father kills the pups after birth. The Zoo has completed some sections of its new fox and wolf display and the mother was moved into a completed den last week. In the old display area, it was impossible to segregate the father from the pups. If the pups survive, they will be placed on display after they are weaned.
25 years ago
April 23, 1993
EL DORADO -- Drug dealers replace themselves in southern Arkansas as quickly as courts can imprison them, the coordinator of the 13th Judicial District Drug Task Force said Wednesday. "What we have found out is that no matter how many people we send to prison, when that group of folks goes off there will be another group that comes back in," Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Davis Butler told the El Dorado Kiwanis Club. "And that's exactly what's happened here in El Dorado," he said. Butler said that when the task force began in 1988, he thought the area's drug problem would be curbed through arrests of drug dealers, convictions and long prison sentences.
10 years ago
April 23, 2008
• White County investigators are awaiting autopsy results before deciding whether to upgrade charges against a soldier charged in the battering of his 5-month-old stepson, who died Sunday after being taken off life support, authorities said Tuesday. Army Spc. Patrick West, 27, was free on $100,000 bond Tuesday and had returned to Fort Campbell, Ky., where he is stationed with the 101st Airborne Division. Prosecuting Attorney Chris Raff charged West with felony first-degree battery on April 14, the day West called 911 to report the infant was not breathing. The child was taken from the home of his maternal grandmother to the White County Medical Center in Searcy and later transferred to Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock, authorities said.
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