100 years ago
July 3, 1915
MOUNTAIN HOME -- The first Anti-Horse Thief League to be organized in this section was organized at Three Brothers, in the northern part of the county yesterday. Fifteen farmers joined. While few horses are stolen in this section, hogs and other live stock disappear off the open range, and the association will be vigilant in protecting its members and others from such losses.
50 years ago
July 3, 1965
• Governor Faubus said Thursday that the State Hospital and the Arkansas Tuberculosis Sanatorium at Booneville had made arrangements to transfer some 100 ambulatory and non-violent mental patients from the crowded Benton Unit of the State Hospital to the uncrowded Sanatorium. The announcement seemed somewhat premature, however. W.L. Fulmer, superintendent of the Sanatorium, said the proposed transfer was only in the discussion stage and that "nothing concrete or definite has been done regarding it."
25 years ago
July 3, 1990
• An appeals court ordered the state to pay the Pulaski County and North Little Rock school districts $9.3 million Monday for desegregation and said school could proceed as planned this fall. The state immediately drafted checks for the two districts, and school officials hailed the interim order by a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals as a first step toward untangling the complex desegregation case.
10 years ago
July 3, 2005
• Arkansas schools will have an easier time than originally expected in meeting state and federal No Child Left Behind Act requirements this year because of changes approved by the U.S. Department of Education. The scores from the state's new third-, fifth- and seventh-grade Benchmark Exams, which were given for the first time in March, won't count this year in determining which public schools don't meet state minimum-achievement requirements and face federally mandated sanctions. Instead, the schools will be evaluated this year on the results from the fourth-, sixth- and eighth-grade Benchmark and End-of-Course exams in algebra, geometry and 11th-grade literacy -- just as was done in past years. Adding the results from the state's three newest tests was expected to increase the number of academically troubled schools classified by the state as needing improvement.
Metro on 07/03/2015