100 years ago
May 5, 1918
• TEXARKANA -- Patrolmen Henry Adams and Jim Oates of the Arkansas Police Department resigned their places last night and will engage in other employment. Adams has accepted a place as special agent for the Missouri-Pacific railway company, while Oates will resume his trade as a mechanic and builder. The two men had been given notice that they would not be retained on the police force longer than June 1; the City Council at its last meeting ordered that the force be reduced for the sake of economy. There will be no appointments to fill the vacancies for the short period yet to run before putting into effect the council's order.
50 years ago
May 5, 1968
• MOUNTAIN HOME -- Baxter County Sheriff Emmett Edmonds, 49, was shot to death Saturday morning. A man who had been held in the County Jail on an attempted burglary charge was the object of a widespread manhunt. More than 100 persons were searching the rolling hill country south of here late Saturday. Official said this Arkansas-Missouri border town of 2,800 persons was in near panic. A newsman reported that many persons were driving around the Courthouse Square, some with guns "poking out the windows." The suspect, Edwin Odus Pitman, 28, of nearby Cotter, a White River Railroad town, was charged Saturday with first-degree murder and escape.
25 years ago
May 5, 1993
• State Auditor Julia Hughes-Jones used her office and state employees during business hours to conduct an unsuccessful 1992 Democratic primary campaign against Sen. Dale Bumpers, a former Jones employee has charged in a complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission. The former employee who filed the complaint is Jennifer Sloan. Another employee at the time, Mary Jane Goodson, expressed concern in a March 2, 1992 letter to Jones about "working" on a federal campaign while receiving a salary from the state.
10 years ago
May 5, 2008
• HOT SPRINGS -- A federal judge has dismissed a suit brought against the National Park Service by a woman who formerly owned property next to Hot Springs National Park, and who has now sued the park's superintendent in another court. Lori Moody, filed a lawsuit in Garland County Circuit Court against the park's superintendent, Josie Fernandez, alleging Fernandez defamed her and at one point referred to her as a "hooker" to a third party.
Metro on 05/05/2018