100 years ago
Feb. 12, 1918
HOPE --Patriotic meetings were held at the Lonoke negro Baptist church here yesterday at 11 o'clock and 3 o'clock. The Rev. P.R. Neal, pastor, delivered a special sermon, and W.F. King, editor of the Dallas Express of Dallas Texas, and a member of the State Council of Defense of Texas, addressed the mass meeting in the afternoon. Special music was furnished by the combined choirs of the negro churches of the city. A record crowd attended each meeting.
50 years ago
Feb. 12, 1968
• The city of Little Rock, through one of its agencies, is a slum landlord. Since June 27, 1966, the Little Rock Housing Authority has charged a family of nine -- including seven children -- $18 a month rent for a house that is substandard by any city code. There are holes in the walls, roof and floor. None of the plumbing works. The house, located in the Coliseum Urban Renewal Project on Wolfe Street, has two bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen and a bathroom. There has been no gas service to the house in several months. Electric heaters are used to heat the house and cooking is done on a hotplate.
25 years ago
Feb. 12, 1993
EL DORADO -- A man who allegedly went on a shooting rampage at a plant here last week will be charged with capital murder and seven counts of first-degree battery, Union County Sheriff Huey Havard said Thursday. Michael Wayne Burns, 37, of El Dorado was in fair condition at University Hospital in Little Rock on Thursday recovering from injuries he suffered after he was beaten with a pipe by a co-worker reportedly trying to stop the attack.
10 years ago
Feb. 12, 2008
• A 21-year-old North Little Rock man accused of fatally stabbing his girlfriend initially tried to pin the slaying on a romantic rival before admitting to killing her himself, according to the man's video-recorded statement played Monday for a Pulaski County Circuit Court judge. Attorneys for Raylee Earl Jackson Jr., charged with capital murder, were seeking to have the 21/2-hour interrogation thrown out of court. They argued that Jackson, who had just been released from the hospital, was under the influence of morphine and PCP when he admitted to fatally stabbing 20-year-old Tamara Pilar Harris during a January 2006 fight at their home at the Overbrook Apartments on John F. Kennedy Boulevard in North Little Rock.
Metro on 02/12/2018