100 years ago
Nov. 12, 1916
• Official returns received by the Gazette from 30 of the 75 counties and practically complete returns from all but a few of the other counties last night still left in doubt whether Amendment No. 14, the road bond amendment, will be adopted. The additional returns did not change the status of the other amendments. It is believed the returns received represent more than three-fourths of the total vote cast and indicated that the vote will be one of the heaviest ever cast in the state.
50 years ago
Nov. 12, 1966
MALVERN -- A State Penitentiary inmate identified as Otto Cooken, about 20, of Canehill (Washington County), escaped early Friday from the Little Rock Unit of the State Hospital and seriously wounded a Hot Spring County grocer before being captured. The grocer was identified as Raymond Crow of near Malvern. He was hospitalized at Little Rock.
25 years ago
Nov. 12, 1991
• The mathematics and statistics department at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock spent $1,069 to create an additional section of a course and waived a $35 lab fee for 11 disgruntled students. The 11 students were allowed to transfer out of an entry-level class they considered too difficult and to take the same class with a different instructor. The controversy arose in a business calculus class taught by Dr. Antonella Carpenter. Two of 28 students formally complained that Carpenter's instruction was too difficult for that level, Burla Sims, an official in the math department, has said.
10 years ago
Nov. 12, 2006
• Charles "Doc" Holladay says the easy part of his road to becoming the next Pulaski County sheriff -- the election -- is over. "As difficult and arduous as the campaign was, the real work begins now," said the 56-year old sheriff-elect, who will take office on Jan. 1. "There is a lot for me to do between now and when I take office." Holladay took a leave of absence from the sheriff's office, where he works in the professional standards unit, to run for sheriff. He began working at the sheriff's office after more than 30 years at the Little Rock Police Department, where he retired in 2003 as a captain.
Metro on 11/12/2016