100 years ago
Jan. 21, 1919
• Action was taken by the Little Rock City Council last night with the view of securing the annexation of North Little Rock to Little Rock. A resolution favoring the proposition was adopted by a unanimous vote. A special committee was appointed to plan the merger. The subject was presented to the council by Mayor Taylor, who said that he favored annexation because of the benefit that would result to both cities. He said he soon would be out of office, so it could not be charged that he advocated annexation through personal or political motives.
50 years ago
Jan. 21, 1969
• Drug induced intoxication before an accident does not bar a person from receiving workmen's compensation benefits, the Arkansas Supreme Court said Monday. A provision in the workmen's compensation laws bars benefits to a person injured in an accident if the accident was "solely occasioned by intoxication" of the person. The Supreme Court, in the case of a Washington County truck driver, refused to interpret this to include intoxication by prescribed narcotics. ...The Supreme Court rejected the argument that the law applied to intoxication by narcotics and said it was clear that the legislature did not intend to include the effects of "medication innocently taken upon the orders of a physician."
25 years ago
Jan. 21, 1994
• The first two weeks of a youth curfew in Little Rock led to 21 teens being cited for violating the city's latest attempt to deter crime, police statistics indicate. More importantly, police are seeing fewer youths on the street late at night and during the early morning hours, said Police Department spokesman Lt. Charles Holladay. "For the most part, there has been less visible contact with young people on the streets," Holladay said. "In that respect, it seems to be effective." Curfew citations went to 18 Little Rock residents and three nonresidents. ... As of Wednesday, no one had been cited for repeat violations of the ordinance. A second offense can result in up to a $500 fine for the parents. Curfew violators may also face having their car impounded.
10 years ago
Jan. 21, 2009
• New speed limits have been posted around the Interstate 630/Interstate 430 interchange, the first evidence the site is about to become a big construction zone. The reduced speeds are designed to control traffic as the interchange becomes the centerpiece of a $17 million construction project to improve traffic flow, state highway officials say. The contractor began preliminary work Tuesday. Workers from Weaver-Bailey Contractors of El Paso stayed on site from about 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. smoothing down rumble strips -- the grooves cut along the highway edge to alert drivers when they've drifted onto the shoulder -- along I-630 westbound near the on ramp for I-430 north and placing concrete patches over them to create a lane on which traffic can be shifted.
Metro on 01/21/2019