100 years ago
Sept. 8, 1917
HUTTIG -- A lone bandit held up the First National bank here shortly after 1 o'clock today and escaped with between $6,000 and $7,000. More than $2,000 was in gold, and the remainder in silver and currency. The daylight hold-up was staged at a time when the bank transacts little business. The cashier, W. P. Reasons, had just opened the bank after lunch. The robber entered with the request that some bills be changed. As the cashier turned to comply the robber drew a gun and commanded Reasons to throw up his hands.
50 years ago
Sept. 8, 1967
• The FBI laboratory at Washington could not determine whether a bullet removed August 27 from the head of a body found near Newport had been fired from any of the four guns found in a car occupied by two men held in the County Jail at Little Rock, Sheriff Frank Mackey said Tuesday. The two men were arrested June 20 at Ellicott City, Md., in a car that was registered to James Ricks, 27, of 908 E. St., Dixie Addition, North Little Rock. The two men, identified as James L. Clay, 20, and Leon Junior Clay, 25, brothers, of Ellicott City, were returned to Little Rock by federal authorities on an unlawful flight charge and were indicted last week by the federal Grand Jury on a charge of interstate transportation of a stolen car.
25 years ago
Sept. 8, 1992
• Two Arkansans were killed in separate accidents on Arkansas highways Sunday night, bringing the state's Labor Day weekend death toll to three as of Monday evening -- seven fewer than last year. Two Arkansans also were killed Sunday evening in Oklahoma, where, by Monday afternoon, there had been 12 traffic deaths recorded for the holiday weekend.
10 years ago
Sept. 8, 2007
• A Malvern man who tried to saw off his right foot two days before his trial on charges of rape and engaging children in sexually explicit conduct was sentenced to 50 years in prison Friday after pleading guilty to one count of each in Hot Spring County Circuit Court. Jerry Scholes, 43, was set for trial Thursday on three counts of rape and one count of engaging children in sexually explicit conduct for use in visual or print medium, said Hot Spring County Chief Deputy Prosecutor Richard Garrett.
Metro on 09/08/2017