100 years ago
July 19, 1918
TEXARKANA -- Tom Hull and Roy Thornton, white boys, under 14 years of age, were arrested last night near Boyd, eight miles south of here, on state warrants charging them with assaulting two eight year old girls. It was testified that the girls were attacked on their way home from school, taken into the woods and tied to a tree, after which they were attacked several times by the boys. A large number of witnesses, including a physician, a justice of the peace, and the teacher of the school at Boyd were present as witnesses at the hearing. On account of the tender age of the boys the charges against them were dismissed.
50 years ago
July 19, 1968
• Police and National Guardsmen arrested more than 70 persons at Akron [Ohio] Thursday night while enforcing a dust-to-dawn curfew following a night and day of sporadic violence by Negroes. About 30 persons were arrested after police fired tear gas grenades into the Afro-American Liberation Society store front office. They had fled into the store when police and the National Guardsmen ordered them to disperse. Police ordered them out of the office but when they refused fired five tear gas grenades through the door.
25 years ago
July 19, 1993
PINE BLUFF -- Proposed plants to burn the nation's aging chemical weapons stockpile -- including an Arkansas incinerator set to start in early 1999 -- could operate 5,000 years without a civilian death, a report of recently completed test burns shows. The Mitre Corp. of McLean, Va., had the government contract to oversee the test burns. It issued its evaluation in a May report obtained by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. The government has deemed the chemicals too barbaric for warfare.
10 years ago
July 19, 2008
• After a 41-hour manhunt, police Friday arrested a man they said gunned down his cousin's wife in her home in east Rogers. Sergio Morales-Carrera, 23, was arrested in a vehicle in Fayetteville at about 2:10 p.m. by members of the Rogers Police Department's criminal investigation division, said Lt. Mike Johnson, department spokesman. He was arrested "without incident," Johnson said. Police took Morales-Carrera to the Rogers jail and later transported him to the Benton County jail, Johnson said. A bail hearing for Morales-Carrera is scheduled for 9 a.m. Monday.
Metro on 07/19/2018