100 years ago
Sept. 15, 1916
HOT SPRINGS -- A walkout of members of the Hot Springs Fire Department was averted today by the Business Men's League in securing pledges from business men to cash enough city scrip to pay the men's salaries. The men had given notice that they would quit unless they received their salaries for August by this morning. The firemen will receive their warrants tomorrow morning and will get them cashed at the Citizens' National bank.
50 years ago
Sept. 15, 1966
• The City Manager Board will face five rezoning matters -- one of them controversial -- at its meeting at 7:30 p.m. Monday at City Hall. The Board heard arguments for and against the rezoning of 600 Kavanaugh Boulevard at its agenda meeting Wednesday, then decided to act on the proposal in a separate proposed ordinance. A spokesman for the rezoning, Maurice Mitchell, said the property should be rezoned from A one-family to E-1 quiet business for the good of the entire neighborhood but several residents of the area said the rezoning would represent more commercial infringement.
25 years ago
Sept. 15, 1991
MENA -- They'd rather be known as the home of radio characters Lum 'n' Abner, but residents sometimes refer to their town as "the drug-running capital of the world." The title is a sarcastic response to allegations, first made public in 1987, that guns and drugs and even foreign soldiers were smuggled in and out of remote Intermountain Regional Airport in the 1980s as part of the Iran-Contra supply operation. Despite numerous investigations, no criminal charges have been brought in the matter.
10 years ago
Sept. 15, 2006
• A man armed with a handgun robbed a west Little Rock bank Thursday, taking an undisclosed amount of cash and leaving on foot. Police were notified of the robbery at Centennial Bank, 14309 Cantrell Road, just after 2 p.m., said Cassandra Davis, a spokesman for the Little Raock Police Department. According to a police report, the man handed the teller a manila envelope labeled "confidential" that read "Give me all your 20s, 10s, 5s and 1s." The teller told police that the robber lifted his shirt and showed a black pistol with brown grips tucked into his jeans, according to the report. The robber had visited the bank about two hour earlier, asking how to open an account, according to the report.
Metro on 09/15/2016