100 years ago
May 4, 1918
HELENA -- Ed Hartsfield pleaded guilty in Circuit Court to second degree murder and was sentenced to 21 years in the pen. Hartsfield killed his wife near Helena last fall and a day or two afterward, evading the officers, answered his call and was indicted into military service and sent to Camp Pike. Later he was traced to Camp Pike and was arrested and brought back to Helena.
50 years ago
May 4, 1968
• Judge Oren Harris said Friday in federal District Court that the Marvell School District in Phillips County had worked out its pupil desegregation problems in the past and that he was confident that it could also resolve its faculty desegregation problems. "Between now and August or early September there should be some soul-searching," the judge said. He said that with serious thought and the right attitude obstacles that might seem insurmountable could be resolved.
25 years ago
May 4, 1993
• Three Arkansas hospitals made a list of the 12 worst hospitals in the United States, based on death rates, in a study by the Center for the Study of Services, a nonprofit Washington consumer group. The study was used as part of a story in the May issue of New Choices for Retirement Living, a publication of the Reader's Digest Special Interest Magazine Group. The three Arkansas Hospitals listed as among the nation's worst are Baptist Memorial Hospital in Forrest City, Magnolia Hospital in Magnolia, and Bradley County Memorial Hospital in Warren (Bradley County). "That's all that crap they turn out in Washington every year on the death statistics," said W.D. Hedden, administrator of the Magnolia hospital. Hedden said the statistics are biased against rural hospitals.
10 years ago
May 4, 2008
PINE BLUFF -- Two Pine Bluff attorneys with experience prosecuting criminals will square off in the Democratic race for circuit judge in Jefferson and Lincoln counties. Maxie Kizer, 50, faces Earnest E. Brown, 38, in the May 20 race for the 11th Judicial District-West, 6th Division, which has historically handled the district's youthful-offender cases. Both candidates, who work across Sixth Street from each other in downtown Pine Bluff, said timing was an important factor in their decisions to run for the open position. It was previously held by Judge Thomas Brown, who retired in January.
Metro on 05/04/2018