100 years ago
Dec. 10, 1918
• Orders have been received at the picric acid plant, stopping all work, government officials said last night. The officials, however, refused to make any statement, beyond the admission that the orders had been received. The future of the big plant at Picron now is under consideration in Washington, and its conversion to a fertilizer plant is being considered. Part of the machinery now installed will be suitable for work in nitrates, upon which some fertilizers are based, and the value of the plant now in operation, local business men believe, will prevent the total abandonment of the plant.
50 years ago
Dec. 10, 1968
ST. LOUIS -- The Eighth United States Circuit Court of Appeals Monday ordered Arkansas to abolish use of the "bullhide" for discipline of prison inmates. The "bullhide" is a leather strap about 5 1/2 feet long, four inches wide and a quarter of an inch thick. The Court said use of the strap was a violation of the Eighth Amendment prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment. "Corporal punishment," the Court said, "is easily subject to abuse in the hands of the sadistic and unscrupulous. Corporal punishment generates hate toward the keepers and toward the system which permits it. It is degrading to punished and punisher alike. It frustrates correctional and rehabilitative goals."
25 years ago
Dec. 10, 1993
• Three men who police said fled the scene of a killing by flagging down a taxi pleaded innocent Thursday in the shooting death of an 18-year-old Little Rock man. Witnesses in the Oct. 10 killing of Jerry Williams told police they saw the gunman and two others climb into a Black and White Cab moments after the shooting. Police identified the three within hours of the 3 a.m. shooting after the cab driver showed detectives two North Little Rock locations where he dropped off the passengers. Williams was killed when two bullets struck him in the left side at 11th and Peyton streets. He was found lying beside the open door of a stolen car, police said. Witnesses told police the three were trying to rob Williams and three companions at the time of the killing.
10 years ago
Dec. 10, 2008
• Arkansas' system of emergency care ranked the worst in the nation in a state-by-state report card released Tuesday by the American College of Emergency Physicians. The United States as a whole scored a C-minus on The National Report Card on the State of Emergency Medicine. Arkansas scored a D-minus on the overall report, getting F's in three of its five categories. Only Washington D.C., Massachusetts, Maryland and Rhode Island scored above a C. No states received an A.
Metro on 12/10/2018