100 years ago
Oct. 28, 1916
HOPE -- Spectators at the Hempstead county fair today experienced a thrill not on the program, when Mr. "Chaney," a horse owned by E. G. Dalton of Hope, ran away with his rider and made five circuits of the half-mile track before he was run down, and caught by Miss Blanche McKinney Hunter, a well-known young woman of Hope. She was loudly cheered when she grasped the bridle of the runaway and stopped him.
50 years ago
Oct. 28, 1966
• Another organization has sprung up to take sides in the local option liquor question that will be on the general election ballot in six Park Hill precincts. The Citizens for Legal Control opened a campaign Thursday with two advertisements in the North Little Rock Times urging residents to vote against prohibiting the sale of intoxicating beverages in the precincts. A week ago, an opposing group announced its formation as Operation BALK (Be Against Liquor on Kennedy).
25 years ago
Oct. 28, 1991
• Using the legal system to seek justice doesn't always pay off -- even if a lawsuit is won, a Little Rock woman said she has learned. In March, Linda Manuel won a judgment against a former landlord, including attorney's fees and costs, for $2,365.09 in Circuit Judge John B. Plegge's court, court records showed. The judgment resulted from a lawsuit Manuel filed in July 1989 against Don Thomas of Maumelle, after a maintenance man employed by Thomas used a pass key to enter her apartment, grabbed her and made sexually suggestive comments, according to the case record on file at the Pulaski County Courthouse.
10 years ago
Oct. 28, 2006
ROGERS -- Mayor Steve Womack said Friday that he can't prove earlier claims that "the clear majority" of his city's drug and gang problems are caused by illegal aliens, but that won't keep him from seeking laws penalizing those who employ or rent to illegal aliens in Rogers. "I'm not going to be painted in a corner by justifying my actions by establishing percentages," Womack said. "I know we have a problem." Newspaper reports about Womack's plans to seek the laws prompted him to hold a news conference Friday afternoon, he said. He said he'd hoped to keep the ordinances' development under wraps. Womack said he formulated the plan after meeting with members of the city's drug task force after the Oct. 20 shooting of Rogers detective Brian Culpepper.
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