100 years ago
May 29, 1916
JONESBORO -- Nursing three flesh wounds inflicted by officers during a revolver battle Friday night at Jonesboro, when he shot and dangerously wounded Deputy Constable A. B. Hunt, Walter Strope, charged with grand larceny, and who recently escaped from jail here, was captured today in a farm house south of here just across the Poinsett county line by local officers. Strope made no effort to resist, and immediately confessed to a series of thefts committed during the past two years.
50 years ago
May 29, 1966
• School consolidation as it would affect districts within Pulaski County were in the news this weekend on two fronts. A subcommittee of the Pulaski County School Study Commission is scheduled to report its findings on the organizations of the three districts to the parent commission at 3:30 p.m. Thursday. Charles Ray, candidate for Position 6 in House District 22 (Pulaski and Perry Counties), Saturday wrote officials of the chambers of commerce of Little Rock, North Little Rock and Jacksonville that he favored school consolidation within the county and, if it developed that further legislation is necessary, he would sponsor, support and work for passage of such legislation if elected.
25 years ago
May 29, 1991
• One of four escaped inmates from the Pulaski County Jail had armed himself and threatened to kill anyone who tried to return him, but he was quietly captured early Tuesday at his sister's Lonoke County home. At least 12 officers from the Pulaski County and Lonoke County sheriff's offices and two Pulaski County police dogs were involved in the arrest of Dennis Ray Brewer, 29, of Humnoke (Lonoke County) about 5:45 a.m. Tuesday, said Pulaski County Sheriff Carroll Gravett.
10 years ago
May 29, 2006
• A table full of memories greeted visitors to a recent reception in the gym at Our Lady of Good Counsel School in Little Rock. Parents, teachers and former students sifted through black-and-white class photos from the 1930s, prim cheerleader uniforms from the 1950s and still-gleaming plaques and trophies from throughout the Catholic school's history. "It's kind of awesome to see all this," said Doris Moix, as she tried to spot one of her five children who attended the school in a 1957 class photo. "And it's sad, too, to see it close. I feel so sorry for the kids who are here now." After 112 years, the prekindergarten through eighth-grade school -- faced with dwindling enrollment and financial struggles -- shut its doors on Friday, possibly for good.
Metro on 05/29/2016