100 years ago
March 15, 1918
HELENA -- Fire which started in a small shop at 1 o'clock this afternoon destroyed six small buildings on Natchez street opposite the Missouri Pacific passenger station, and one building occupied by a restaurant was badly damaged. The whole block consisted of one-story frame buildings with sheet iron fronts and occupied by small business houses and shops, with the exception of the corner building, which was of brick. All of the wooden houses were burned.
50 years ago
March 15, 1968
HOT SPRINGS -- Hot Springs police Thursday night raided a motel room here and arrested six men on charges of keeping a gambling house. A search, seize and destroy warrant was issued by Circuit Judge Henry M. Britt. Police Chief John Ermey said officers seized a dice table and layout and poker chips and dice. The gambling equipment was burned, he said. Ermey said the motel management notified police gambling was discovered.
25 years ago
March 15, 1993
GUY -- Arkansas owners of exotic animals began renewing their efforts Sunday to oppose legislation regulating animal ownership and treatment. Fifteen owners gathered Sunday at Scott Riddle's elephant farm near Guy (Faulkner County) to discuss the proposed legislation. Three bills promoted by Arkansans for Animals regarding animal theft, care and ownership were introduced Friday in the Legislature. Joyce Hillard, a member of Arkansans for Animals, has defended the bills as reasonable measures to protect animals. But members of the Arkansas Agricultural and Exotic Animal Society disagreed.
10 years ago
March 15, 2008
• A North Little Rock man who partially disemboweled his girlfriend during a knife attack then laid down next to her bloody corpse holding their infant son to await police was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday for first-degree murder. Attorneys for Raylee Earl Jackson Jr. admitted that their 21-year-old client killed his high-school sweetheart, 20-year-old Tamara Pilar Harris, during a January 2007 fight at their home at the Overbrook Apartments on John F. Kennedy Boulevard in North Little Rock. "It's very clear he caused her death," attorney Bret Qualls told the six-woman, six-man jury.
Metro on 03/15/2018