100 years ago
Aug. 6, 1918
PARIS -- A posse of 25 men is being organized in Paris and funds are being raised by popular subscription to furnish supplies for the party which will go into the mountains tonight in force to cope with the gangs of slackers, deserters and other undesirables who are still in the forest and mountain fastnesses on and near Mt. Magazine. Captain W. B. Rosser and a party of six men yesterday circled completely about the sector where the gangs are in camp and sufficient evidence was found to show that they are still there. None of the posse was armed with weapons heavier than revolvers and the expedition was simply a scouting trip.
50 years ago
Aug. 6, 1968
• Mrs. Virginia Johnson officially became the second candidate for governor in the Democratic runoff primary Monday and appealed to young people to help her prevent "the old crowd" from returning to the governor's office. Six days of doubt about who Marion H. Crank's opponent in the runoff would be ended at 4 p.m. when J.P. (Sonny) Lybrand, executive secretary of the Democratic State Committee, certified the returns of last Tuesday's primary to Secretary of State Kelly Bryant. They showed that Mrs. Johnson defeated Ted Boswell of Bryant by 400 votes for second place. The total vote in the race was 414,877.
25 years ago
Aug. 6, 1993
PINE BLUFF-- A 5-pound 2-ounce infant girl was clinging to life Thursday at Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock. Doctors removed her from her mother's womb after the 26-year-old Pine Bluff woman was shot to death Wednesday night. Jefferson County Coroner Havis Hester said Joyce Rauls, 7 1/2 months pregnant, was pronounced dead at Jefferson Regional Medical Center at 11:27 p.m. after officers from the Pine Bluff Police Department found her body on the back side of a ravine behind the Acme Motel at 3415 W. Sixth Ave. She had been shot once in the chest, Hester said.
10 years ago
Aug. 6, 2008
• The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' Office of Inspector General will release a report today detailing violations of federal rules governing research with human subjects at the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System. The report is the result of an investigation of experiments involving more than 2,000 human research subjects, including breast, colon and prostate cancer patients. It comes after related reports by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and VA's Office of Research Oversight, according to a VA news release. "Research documentation and procedural issues were detected at the medical center in Little Rock by VA employees and an aggressive action plan has been developed and is being implemented addressing each of the findings in the OIG report," Michael Winn, director of the system's medical center, said in a statement Tuesday evening.
Metro on 08/06/2018