100 years ago
Jan. 15, 1918
• Five alarms were answered by the Little Rock Fire Department yesterday but no fire was found on any of the runs. The first alarm was received at 8 a.m. from Erret Hamilton's confectionery, 218 Main Street, where an ammonia pipe burst in the rear of the building, filling the confectionery with ammonia. The next run was due to a passerby seeing a plumber's torch under a residence at Fourteenth and Louisiana streets, where the plumber was thawing out water pipes. The same thing happened at the Hotel Marion yesterday morning.
50 years ago
Jan. 15, 1968
CLARKSVILLE --Johnson County Sheriff Walter Looper said Sunday that the body of Lee Cornish, 16, of near Clarksville was discovered shortly after noon Sunday in a wooded area about 10 miles from here. Looper said Cornish, son of Mrs. Esther Cornish of the Minnow Creek Community, apparently died of exposure. Looper said the youth's body was found about three miles from his home. Looper said Mrs. Cornish told him Friday morning that her son had been missing since Wednesday noon. Looper said the youth had probably been dead since Thursday.
25 years ago
Jan. 15, 1993
• The Little Rock Jail should have little trouble today meeting a federal court's deadline for reducing inmate population. U.S. District Judge Stephen M. Reasoner handed down an order Dec. 21, 1992, requiring the jail to house no more than 105 inmates by today. The jail held 92 inmates Thursday. But officials warned that the city isn't out of the woods yet. Jail officer Sgt. Danny O'Kelley said Thursday the jail's population varies widely from day to day. On a brisk night, Little Rock police can crowd the jail with new arrests, O'Kelley said.
10 years ago
Jan. 15, 2008
• BENTON -- One of several suspects in a large-scale dogfighting ring faces 27 felony counts of dogfighting after his rural Saline County property was raided earlier this month, authorities said Monday. Patrick Janiszewski, 25, was booked into the Saline County jail Friday. He also faces 27 misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty. He posted $30,700 bond. Several other arrests are pending in the case, which began eight months ago after investigators received information from the Humane Society, said Lt. Mike Frost of the Saline County sheriff's office.
Metro on 01/15/2018