100 years ago
Oct. 27, 1917
PINE BLUFF -- A sensational suit was filed in the Jefferson Circuit Court today to break the will of the late P.G. Jenkins, who was assassinated at his home near Sherrill the night of December 26, 1915. Damages in the sum of $60,000 are asked of Mrs. Johnnie Williams Jenkins, his widow. Mr. Jenkins' will was written before his marriage. It provides that his brothers, who are among the plaintiffs, should receive $1 each.
50 years ago
Oct. 27, 1967
• People have been using master dealer license tags illegally in Arkansas to avoid payment of the sales tax on their automobiles, State Police and Revenue Department officials announced Thursday. Political influence has been used in past years to obtain licenses for unauthorized persons in many cases, a Revenue Department spokesman said. The state Police and the Revenue Department called a news conference to make the disclosure and to announce a new system for temporarily registering newly purchased cars to eliminate the abuse.
25 years ago
Oct. 27, 1992
• An 11-year-old North Little Rock boy was killed Monday afternoon when he was hit by a train while trying to cross the railroad tracks near the 22 blocks of West 14th Street, North Little Rock police said. Police said Dwayne Jones, who attended Boone Park Elementary School, was walking home about 3:15 p.m. with his brother, Anthony Johnson, 7, when the two approached a parked Union Pacific Train. As Dwayne tried to cross the tracks, the train started to move south, striking him. Police said the boy lost his left leg and part of his right leg in the accident.
10 years ago
Oct. 27, 2007
• A killer cited his conscience, apologizing to his victim and his family after pleading guilty to first-degree murder on Friday and accepting a 30-year prison sentence. His admission could lead to a murder charge against at least one other man, prosecutors said. "I did take that man's life," Travis Santee Scoggins told Pulaski County Circuit Judge Willard Proctor Jr. "I did not mean to do that." A friend found 24-year-old Stephen LaMont Bogard dead from a chest wound at his Grays Lane home in Wrightsville in April 2005. The father of one had been badly beaten and shot from, at most, a foot away.
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