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100 years ago

Jan. 22, 1917

• After spending six months at Deming, N.M., within striking distance of the Mexican border, learning to be soldiers in time of peace, the First Arkansas Regiment, Arkansas National Guard, is coming home. It was among the list of regiments ordered to return by General Funston yesterday. The Second Regiment will remain at Deming until further orders. Returning one and keeping another regiment from the same state seems to have been the policy of General Funston. One of two regiments from several states was ordered home.

50 years ago

Jan. 22, 1967

• Attorney General Joe Purcell said Saturday there was no authority in the Arkansas Constitution or legislative acts under which Governor Rockefeller could call a special election to fill the office of Pulaski County judge. The constitution, however, empowers the General Assembly to enact a law to provide for a special election for a county judge, Purcell said. Representative Charles D. Matthews of North Little Rock, who had asked for an opinion from Purcell whether Mr. Rockefeller had legal authority to call a special election, said that a bill to provide for the special election would be introduced Monday in the House.

25 years ago

Jan. 22, 1992

• The Pulaski County Special School District can't afford the new elementary school promised in its revised desegregation plan, Superintendent Bobby Lester said Tuesday in federal court. Lester then asked U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright to defer opening of that school for five years. "I'm not going to make any rulings today, but you have a serious problem," Wright told county district officials at an all-day hearing in the Pulaski County school desegregation lawsuit.

10 years ago

Jan. 22, 2007

• Little Rock School District officials and others offered conflicting views Sunday on whether the school system had fully integrated a system to evaluate how well programs improve the achievement of black students. The testimony came on the second day of a hearing before U.S. District Judge Bill Wilson Jr. on the district's petition to be declared unitary -- that is, desegregated to the extent practical -- and released from decades of federal court supervision over its desegregation efforts. Testimony is scheduled to continue at 9 a.m. Saturday when the hearing resumes.

Metro on 01/22/2017

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