100 years ago
May 3, 1919
• Paul Brooks and Fred Prioleau, two North Little Rock youths, were arrested early this Saturday morning charged with having snatched a purse containing $189 from the hand of Private Arthur Reid, convalescent hospital at Camp Pike. According to an alleged confession made by Brooks, Reid's pocketbook containing a $100 bill lies at the bottom of the Arkansas river, where it was thrown by Brooks, who overlooked the big bill. Reid told the military police at Police headquarters that he and two other soldiers had gone into a North Little Rock pool hall to play billiards. He said that they played a few games, and then bought a pint of whiskey from a man in the pool hall. ...He said that he and his companions went to the rear and drank the whiskey and then started out. Reid was carrying his pocketbook in his hand. As the soldiers passed the door, he said that one of two men standing there seized his pocketbook and ran.
50 years ago
May 3, 1969
FAYETTEVILLE -- One person was arrested Thursday night after 200 male University of Arkansas students gathered at a women's three-dormitory complex calling for panties. University officials reported that three or four school vehicles had been discovered Friday with windows smashed at another spot on campus and that a few windows in the dormitory complex's dining hall had been broken. They said they were not sure when the damage occurred or whether the destruction was connected with the events Thursday night. After midnight, two Fayetteville policemen arrived and removed Richard Schwenck, 21, who gave his address as Fayetteville, from the second-story ledge of Hotz Hall.
25 years ago
May 3, 1994
• Arkansas' police chiefs welcomed the move in Congress to ban 19 types of semiautomatic assault weapons Monday, even though they conceded the weapons are used in relatively few crimes. "We are asking our congressmen to support us in our efforts to get these killing machines off the streets," Arkansas Association of Chiefs of Police President Bob Johnston said at a news conference in North Little Rock. "They have no friendly application." The executive committee of the 140-member organization voted unanimously Friday to endorse the ban. Johnston noted that most firearms used in crimes aren't assault weapons but semiautomatic handguns. "Weapons (subject to the ban) are used in a very small percentage of crimes," said Johnston, the Arkadelphia police chief, "but they have deadly results because of their multiple discharge capacity."
10 years ago
May 3, 2009
• Three University of Arkansas at Little Rock professors were honored for faculty excellence Friday night during an annual awards ceremony. They are: R. Paul Yoder, associate professor of English in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. He won the $10,000 Ted and Virginia Bailey Foundation Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching. Hussain Al-Rizzo, associate professor of systems engineering in the Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology. He won the $5,000 University Faculty Excellence Award for Research sponsored by PepsiAmericas. Julianna Flinn, professor of anthropology in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Studies. She won the $5,000 University Faculty Excellence Award for Service.
Metro on 05/03/2019