100 years ago
Feb. 28, 1918
DARDANELLE -- Fighting fire all night last night, a volunteer party of 40 men from Dardanelle and vicinity saved all but one of the summer cottages on Mount Nebo, five miles west of Dardanelle. The fire originated the day before in the dry brush in the woods on the mountain and swept down toward the residences bordering the "bench" road on the east side. The workers were handicapped by the dense smoke which covered the mountain all night, but finally extinguished the fire at 5 o'clock this morning. Only one house was lost, the summer residence of Judge Jesse C. Hart of the Arkansas Supreme Court.
50 years ago
Feb. 28, 1968
• There is an orderly legal method for taking a child from its mother and this is being followed to remove an infant from Cummins Prison Farm, state Welfare Commissioner Len E. Blaylock said Tuesday. "Since this a matter for court action, our workers are proceeding orderly and we will not get emotional and rush down to Cummins Prison farm to get in a fight with prison officials," Blaylock said.
25 years ago
Feb. 28, 1993
• While repealing the state law banning sodomy is a "legitimate issue," it is not as "pressing" as other matters before the Legislature, Gov. Jim Guy Tucker said. But Tucker left open the possibility he would sign the legislation if it reached his desk. Even so, he made clear he was not going to help shepherd it through the Legislature, where a similar effort two years ago did not garner a single affirmative vote in a Senate committee. The governor, in recalling the history of the law, said he was the co-chairman of a committee charged in 1975 with revising the criminal code.
10 years ago
Feb. 28, 2008
• The melee at Boyle Park that left seven people injured, including four with bullet wounds, began with two girls fighting over a boy and escalated after older relatives showed up with handguns and crowbars, police said Wednesday. The fight Tuesday was "pretty well over until the parents arrived, and then it escalated into shootings and other things," Little Rock Police Department spokesman Lt. Terry Hastings said. A crowd of teenagers had gathered at the park in west-central Little Rock just before 3:15 p.m. when two J.A. Fair students began fighting over the boy, according to police and witness accounts.
Metro on 02/28/2018