100 years ago
April 16, 1918
JONESBORO --Willis Copeland was seriously injured by his brother in law, J.J. Moore, a car builder of Pine Bluff, here today, when the latter attacked Copeland with a knife. Copeland was stabbed in the side and slashed in the neck. His condition is serious. It is alleged that Copeland accused Moore of being a slacker, an I.W.W. and a pro-German. Moore was arrested, but later released on $1,000 bond pending the result of Copeland's wounds.
50 years ago
April 16, 1968
WALNUT RIDGE -- The first witness in the first-degree murder trial of Mrs. Myrtle Clark, 47, of Walnut Ridge, who is charged with slaying her husband, Millard M. Clark, 51, a prominent Lawrence County contractor, will be heard at 9 a.m. Today in Lawrence Circuit Court. Prosecuting Attorney David Hidges of Newport and defense attorneys Fred M. Pickens Jr. and Wayne Boyce, both of Newport, took six hours to pick an all-male jury out of 44 prospective jurors Monday as the trial opened.
25 years ago
April 16, 1993
• A Magnolia pharmacist indicted last week by the Pulaski County grand jury pleaded innocent Thursday in Pulaski County Circuit Court to violating the Medical Fraud Act. Donald Moody, 48, of Moody's Pharmacy is scheduled for a jury trial Aug. 31-Sept. 1 in Circuit Judge John Plegge's court for allegedly overcharging Medicaid customers by more than $44,000. The charge is a Class B felony that carries a possible punishment of five to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $15,000. A hearing has not been scheduled for Reecia Ann Denton of Warren (Bradley County), whom the grand jury has also indicted on a single count of Medicaid fraud.
10 years ago
April 16, 2008
CONWAY -- An administrative judge has signed a sentencing order for an 18-year-old Faulkner County jail inmate who has been awaiting transfer to prison for more than a year, officials said Tuesday. The order, approved late Monday by Judge Charles E. Clawson Jr., was filed with the circuit clerk's office Tuesday after Circuit Judge Rhonda Wood transferred the case to him. The sentencing order will now be forwarded to the Arkansas Department of Correction, and Myles Taft Jr. will be transferred to prison when a spot is available. Wood's order transferring Taft's case said she was doing so due "to the allegations in this matter."
Metro on 04/16/2018