100 years ago
Sept. 24, 1918
• The City Council last night passed an ordinance permitting the Arkansas Water Company, for the period of the war and six months thereafter, to charge by meter measurement for all water furnished consumers in Little Rock. Two ordinances on the subject were introduced following a secret caucus of aldermen that lasted more than an hour.
50 years ago
Sept. 24, 1968
• The outgoing Pulaski County Grand Jury Monday used a federal judge's ruling of September 10 that its members had been selected unconstitutionally to avoid having to report on the conditions at the County Penal Farm that led to the fatal beating of a Negro inmate, Curtis Ingram Jr., 18, on August 2. The Jury, instead of making a final report, filed this statement with Circuit Judge William J. Kirby: "The Pulaski County Grand Jury believes there will be a cloud over any decisions it would make as a result of recent litigation, therefore no recommendations are submitted relative to County affairs."
25 years ago
Sept. 24, 1993
• Although Pulaski County needs new voting machines, County Judge Buddy Villines said Thursday, the problems with Tuesday's school elections were more the result of human error than voting machine error. Villines said he had directed his staff, which includes the county's elections coordinator, to find out what went wrong with the elections and to make sure the mistake doesn't happen again. "Clearly, human error was at play," Villines said. "The human mistakes have to be corrected in the next two elections, period." The next two elections -- one on the expansion of the convention center and the other for electing members of the Little Rock Board of Directors -- are set for Oct. 19 and Nov. 16, respectively.
10 years ago
Sept. 24, 2008
• The Little Rock School District is willing to see an end to millions of dollars a year in state desegregation funding -- but only after receiving maximum funding for seven years before the cutoff. An attorney for the Little Rock School District on Tuesday listed the terms the district wants to see in a possible financial settlement of the 25-year-old school desegregation lawsuit.
Metro on 09/24/2018