100 years ago
July 11, 1918
WILSON -- The Wilson public school building and playground have been found to be over an Indian burial ground. Some plumbers in digging recently found pieces of pottery. This led two 12-year-old boys, Junior Wallace and Willie Rapp, to dig for more. They soon found a whole earthen ware vessel about 10 inches in diameter and eight inches in height in a fairly good state of preservation. The building is on slightly higher ground than the surrounding country. There are several Indian mounds in this county. The boys also found human bones.
50 years ago
July 11, 1968
FORT SMITH -- City officials and striking street and sanitation workers testified before Chancellor Warren Kimbrough for more than three hours here Wednesday in a hearing to decide whether the city must recognize a union as the worker's bargaining agent. About 15 persons testified Wednesday, including City Administrator Jack Shelley, several department heads and several of the striking employes. The hearing was on the 21st day of the strike.
25 years ago
July 11, 1993
• A facility for AIDS patients was destroyed in an apparent arson about 5:15 p.m. Saturday, Little Rock firefighters said. Fire inspector Gregory Summers said the blaze at the Ryan White Act AIDS Consortium's HIV/AIDS Action Life Center at 604 E. Sixth St. caused an estimated $100,000 in damage to the one-story frame building. He said it appeared someone set the fire outside the house on a deck area. "It's my opinion that this is an arson fire," Summers said. "I'll take some samples of the debris and send it to the crime lab. They'll be able to tell if any accelerants were used."
10 years ago
July 11, 2008
• A former Little Rock police officer convicted of possessing explosives that were found under his estranged wife's bed more than a decade ago was arrested in California on Monday after police said he attempted to kill his current wife. Leroy Kendall, 52, was arrested by California City, Calif., police after a relative of his wife reported a stabbing, said Lt. Eric Hurtado of the California City Police. He said police found Kendall's wife at the couple's house bleeding from several stab wounds. She is in critical condition but expected to live, police said.
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