100 years ago
Jan. 22, 1916
HOT SPRINGS -- It wasn't a cyclone, neither was it a tornado, but it was some big, healthy twister, according to those who came in from the western portion of the county, along the Hawes postoffice road today. The twister had its greatest effect at the Frank Lavender home, about four miles from the city. It removed the roof and part of the walls of the barn, but left the hay in the barn undisturbed.
50 years ago
Jan. 22, 1966
• The Memorial Hospital Board voted this week to trade a small piece of property to gain a right of way for another street to the hospital. Permission for the trade will have to come from the Arkansas Baptist State Convention, which operates the city-owned hospital. Fen Ash and Associates, who suggested the trade, want an unused piece of property near the hospital's access road that lies adjacent to the company's land.
25 years ago
Jan. 22, 1991
EL DORADO -- An Arkansas State Police review board has found undercover narcotics investigator Eddie Davis of El Dorado (Union County) in violation of departmental policies in three separate incidents. The review board met Thursday and referred its findings to Col. T. L. Goodwin, state police director, for appropriate disciplinary action. Goodwin said Monday that he has decided on the disciplinary action but would not disclose that decision until Davis is notified of it by registered mail as state law requires.
10 years ago
Jan. 22, 2006
JONESBORO -- Nearly eight years after developing a program aimed at quelling school violence, Jim Moore touted his idea for the first time at the school that got him started. Moore is the director of Watch D.O.G.S., a nonprofit organization based in Springdale that encourages fathers of elementary and older students to spend a day on campus. The dads can participate in classroom activities with their children, lend a watchful eye for safety during loading and unloading of school buses, eat lunch with the children and play with them at recess. Hundreds of schools in 30 states participate, Moore said. The acronym DOGS stands for "Dads Of Great Students." On Thursday night, Moore visited the Westside Consolidated School District near Jonesboro and pitched his idea to a gymnasium full of fathers of elementary school children.
Metro on 01/22/2016