100 years ago
Dec. 8, 1917
PINE BLUFF -- Earl S. Wood, present city attorney, won the nomination for municipal judge in today's Democratic primary election by a plurality of 29 votes over Police Judge J. M. Stewart. R. E. Lee won the nomination for clerk of the Municipal Court, with more votes than both his opponents. The other city candidates were without opposition. The vote was unusually light because of bad weather, and only 201 women voted, out of a total of about 400 who had paid their poll taxes.
50 years ago
Dec. 8, 1967
• Circuit Judge William J. Kirby's office continued to receive telephone calls Thursday from persons concerned about the jailing of Col. Lynn A Davis, director of the State Police, on a contempt of court citation Tuesday. Judge Kirby also received several letters. He said there were many messages, both by telephone and by mail, agreeing with the action he took as there were in disagreement. He said those supporting might have had the edge, numerically, Thursday. Judge Kirby said he thought the most significant letter was from an El Dorado lawyer who said that a number of Union County lawyers had prepared a news release endorsing the judge.
25 years ago
Dec. 8, 1992
• Sherwood police officers James F. and Cheryl Williams, who are married, were fired Monday for allegedly abusing their authority as officers and violating Police Department regulations, Ed Adcock, the department's attorney, said. Adcock said the Williamses -- both of whom had been fired once before in an unrelated case, only to be reinstated in 1989 -- were delivered notices of termination about 4:10 p.m. Monday. The Williamses were accused of abusing their authority as Police officers in January in a situation that should have been a private dispute, Adcock said in a November interview.
10 years ago
Dec. 8, 2007
• A man who was shot to death at a southwest Little Rock gas station last month had gone there to sell cocaine, according to an arrest affidavit filed in Little Rock District Court. The affidavit became available Wednesday, after Tommie Overton Jr. pleaded innocent to a first degree murder charge in the Nov. 13 death of Steven Andre Callahan, 41, of Little Rock. At the hearing, Judge Lee Munson sentenced Overton, 21, of Little Rock to a year in jail on a misdemeanor drug conviction from September. The sentence had previously been suspended, but it was reinstated in light of the new charge.
Metro on 12/08/2017