100 years ago
Dec. 27, 1920
• Twelve convicts, among them the most notorious criminals in the state penitentiary, crawled through a hole in a stockade floor and escaped from the prison farm at Tucker, Jefferson county, early last night. All prisoners dropped through the hole to the ground and got away within 10 minutes. Two of them were recaptured four miles from the farm within the first two hours, and prison officers, on horses with dogs trailing the fugitives, expected to round up several more before daylight this (Monday) morning.
50 years ago
Dec. 27, 1970
• The proposal that the federal government share its revenues with the states, no strings attached, is one that has received so many endorsements in recent years that it has seemed at times that only Representative Wilbur D. Mills (Dem., Ark.) of Kensett had reservations about it. Such is not the case, although Mills' opposition has understandably received the most attention, since he is chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee and has been a key man, if not the key man, in blocking revenue-sharing legislation thus far, despite the Nixon administration's all out push for it and the support of the National Governors Conference and other organizations concerned with financing state and local government.
25 years ago
Dec. 27, 1995
ROGERS -- Citing the potential environmental cost of Beaver lake's growth boom, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has announced an immediate freeze on requests for private boat docks and other related improvements. James Beard, the Corps' lake manager, said the agency will accept no new requests for permits for single-owner boat docks or improvements to existing docks, roadways, turn-arounds, pedestrian steps, swim floats, or buoys in the next two years.
10 years ago
Dec. 27, 2010
• Attorney General Dustin McDaniel said his goal in the 2011 legislative session is to make sure Arkansas doesn't end up back in court over how the state funds public schools. To do that, he'll have to keep an eye on freshman lawmakers, McDaniel said. He said he will not support much legislation in the 2011 session, which begins Jan. 10. McDaniel, who has had parts of previous legislative packages approved in the past, said he is scaling back his agenda this session so he can keep lawmakers from making changes that could lead to a court suit.