100 years ago
Feb. 13, 1918
• Carl Padget and Dorse Majors, chauffeurs, who were with the two girls, one of whom was assaulted by a negro on the Twelfth street pike Monday night, and who were detained for investigation by the police Monday night, were released yesterday. There were no other developments in the case yesterday. Detectives Pitcock and Lewis said Sergeant Bennett and Deputy Sheriffs William Sibeck, E. S. Jones, J. J. Hawkins, and Clifton Evans, with many farmers in the vicinity of the crime, searched the woods, but failed to find any clues.
50 years ago
Feb. 13, 1968
• Taking control of Tucker Prison Farm from trusties as Superintendent Thomas O. Murton did without major trouble was "no less than miraculous," a visiting criminologist told Arkansas House members Monday. Joseph D. Lohman of Berkeley, Calif., dean of the University of California School of Criminology, said that the reforms instituted at Tucker and now in process at Cummins Prison Farm had "minimized crisis through astute management of the transition."
25 years ago
Feb. 13, 1993
FAYETTEVILLE -- Twelve people were arraigned Friday in what the U.S. attorney's office in Fort Smith called "one of the largest mail frauds ever committed against insurance companies in the state of Arkansas." Among the 12 who pleaded innocent before U.S. Magistrate Beverly Stites were former White County Sheriff Jerry Johnson, 53, of Searcy and Jim Edwards, 39, of Evening Shade, a former bail bondsman who operated in Searcy. According to a recent news release from Michael Fitzhugh, U.S. attorney for the western district of Arkansas, the indictments handed down last month by a federal grand jury centered on schemes to defraud various insurance companies.
10 years ago
Feb. 13, 2008
• The Federal Emergency Management Agency approved the first bundle of federal aid Tuesday for Arkansans who lost property in the deadly tornados that tore through the state last week. About $545,000 have been approved in 143 tornado-victim cases, said Dan Martinez, the agency's spokesman in Arkansas. A total of $424,000 is for rental assistance and home repairs, and $121,000 is for miscellaneous needs such as buying clothes, paying medical bills and covering funeral expenses. Martinez said some families received the money by direct deposit to their bank accounts Tuesday.
Metro on 02/13/2018