100 years ago
May 10, 1918
JONESBORO -- Five men, E. N. McKenzie, R. D. Wiggins, E. L. Lincoln, George Schultz and W. W. Welternate, all employed as switch men in the local Frisco yards, were arrested here last night by Special Agents Briffin and Broils, United States Marshal Burns, Chief of Police Craig and Constable Craig, charged with robbing freight cars of their interstate shipments. A large quantity of the goods was recovered. The men pleaded guilty, it is said. They were held to the federal Grand jury in bonds of $500 each by Commissioner E. P. Matthews.
50 years ago
May 10, 1968
• Representative John E. Miller of Melbourne was offended by some paintings of nudes in an art exhibit in the Capitol rotunda and he persuaded the Arkansas Legislative Council Thursday to officially express its disapproval. Miller, 39, offered a resolution condemning the exhibiting of the paintings at the capitol as "contrary to the public morals." He said it was especially in bad taste since many school children were touring the Capitol at this time of year. The paintings are part of a collection of art by students at the state-supported colleges an universities.
25 years ago
May 10, 1993
• Arkansas Children's Hospital nurses seen holding babies while they fiddle with hand-held computers aren't lounging around on the job playing video games. Instead, Children's is the first hospital to test the MEDITECH Handheld Point of Care Computer and implement the new device into the daily routine of the nursing staff. The hospital plans to expand the use of the micro computers on May 17 to 10 of the hospital's 16 units, raising the number of the devices in service from 14 to about 75.
10 years ago
May 10, 2008
• Two barges that broke free of a 12-barge tow on the Arkansas River early Friday ended up against the upriver side of a lock and dam near Morrilton, authorities said. No one was hurt in the accident, which occurred between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m., but the Arthur V. Ormond Lock and Dam No. 9 will remain closed until the barges are recovered and the lock and dam is inspected, said P.J. Spaul, a spokesman for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Little Rock, which operates locks and dams on the river.
Metro on 05/10/2018