100 years ago
Nov. 23, 1917
FORT SMITH -- Two residences were destroyed and two others were badly damaged in a fire that resulted from an explosion in the home of A. C. Futrall early today. The cause of the explosion is unknown, but it is believed to have been due to gas. Members of the Futrall family barely had time to escape in their night clothes and lost all their household effects. The family of Lee Cannon just had time to escape when their house caught fire and burned. Shortly before this fire flames were discovered in 65 bales on cotton linters at the plant of the Union Seed and Fertilizer Company.
50 years ago
Nov. 23, 1967
• Dr. Edwin N. Barron Jr. of Little Rock, physician for the state Penitentiary, and Bob Scott, Governor Rockefeller's assistant for prison affairs, have been subpoenaed to appear before the Lincoln County Grand Jury at 9 a.m. Monday at Star City. Scott said the subpoenas did not explain the nature of the hearing but that he and Dr. Barron were to appear as state witnesses. Prosecuting Attorney Joe Holmes and Circuit Judge Henry Smith of Pine Bluff both refused to say what the Grand Jury hearing was about.
25 years ago
Nov. 23, 1992
• High winds that tore through Arkansas County and southern Prairie County early Sunday morning ripped a $60,000 airplane from its moorings, tossed it 50 feet across the tarmac and left it "wrinkled and broken," the Stuttgart airport manager said. The nearly 60-mile-per-hour winds -- part of a powerful weather front that left 16 people dead in Mississippi and Tennessee -- broke nearly 30 power poles in and around Stuttgart, lifted a mobile home off its foundation, knocked out windows and damaged several storage buildings, the National Weather Service reported.
10 years ago
Nov. 23, 2007
• Kerem125, an Internet graffiti artist with an anti-war message and the computer savvy to splash it onto Web sites owned by such entities as the United Nations and Harvard University, struck Arkansas sites this week. The self-proclaimed hacker left his mark on at least three: the Department of Parks and Tourism site that directs travelers to Arkansas; North Little Rock's charitable THEA Foundation; and Aristotle, a Little Rock-based Internet company. Those turned up in a cursory Google search. It couldn't be determined how many other sites may have been hit.
Metro on 11/23/2017