100 years ago
June 11, 1917
• HEBER SPRINGS -- Simon Conditt, aged 21, a private in Company A, First Regiment, Arkansas National Guard, was arrested today under an indictment charging first degree murder. He is held without bail. It is charged that Conditt is responsible for the death of L. F. Isbell, a farmer who lives two miles west of here, early last December. Isbell was killed along the road between Heber Springs and his home. Conditt, who had been in his employ for some time was with him. They had been to Heber Springs together and were returning to the farm.
50 years ago
June 11, 1967
• MALVERN -- The publisher of the Malvern Daily Record is a woman. The editor and associate editor are women. So is the business manager. So is the circulation manager. For that matter, so are the bookkeeper and the advertising artist. In the world of journalism, generally regarded still as a man's world, the Malvern Daily Record has for 18 years been a woman's stronghold. Mrs. Kate Brice Beerstecher, widow of J. H. Beerstecher, the founder of the Daily Record, took over the paper on the death of her husband.
25 years ago
June 11, 1992
• A Little Rock man on trial for murder testified Wednesday that he shot his wife because he was outraged she was having an affair. "I really loved her and wanted to work things out," Ricky Lavalle Crook, 28, told a Pulaski County Circuit Court jury. Crook is standing trial for first-degree murder in the Feb. 20 death of his estranged wife, Michelle Crook, 25, whom he shot Feb. 10. He faces a sentence of 10 to 40 years or life in prison if convicted. The trial is expected to conclude today before Circuit Judge John Langston.
10 years ago
June 11, 2007
• Magic Springs' X-Coaster reopened to passengers Sunday, a day after a dozen passengers were stuck upside-down on the ride for a half-hour during a power failure, the amusement park's general manager said. The passengers were at the peak of a 150-foot-high loop, billed as the world's largest inverted ride, when the Hot Springs park lost power at 4:55 p.m. At 5:27 p.m., power to the park was restored, and the passengers, still strapped in their seats, were brought down to the gate. One passenger, 37-year-old Jay Plummer, was taken to St. Joseph's Mercy Health Center in Hot Springs after throwing up and complaining of head and neck pain.
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