100 years ago
July 16, 1918
TEXARKANA --In the Federal Court here today, judge Youmans, sitting in regular adjourned session, refused a new trial in the cases of Melvin D. Anderson and George Booker, both of whom were convicted by a jury in the court last month on charges of conspiracy in connection with the breaking into a freight car in the local railway yards last winter, when several hundred dollars worth of whiskey in interstate transit was stolen.
50 years ago
July 16, 1968
SEARCY --Clyde E. Byrd of Little Rock, armed with two sound cars and a country and western band, stumped Central Arkansas in old-time fashion Monday in his bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. He made speeches and shook hands at Lonoke, Cabot, Beebe, Heber Springs and Searcy. Attendance ranged from sparse to medium, but the response was consistently friendly. At each of his stops, Byrd pledged a sound fiscal policy for the state, a constructive penal system, a check into the recent auto insurance rate increase and an increase in welfare payments.
25 years ago
July 16, 1993
• Family ties were not strong enough to prevent the aunt of an Arkansas fugitive from turning in her nephew Thursday afternoon. DeKalb County, Ga., officers arrested Carl Adams, 22, of 2610 Welch St. in Little Rock, about 1:25 p.m. CDT on warrants charging him with 11 felony charges in a June 1 drive-by shooting that injured two children. "He was at his aunt's house in Atlanta, and she called the police and turned him in," said Detective Jesse Callahan, an auto theft investigator with the DeKalb County Police Department.
10 years ago
July 16, 2008
• A Saline County woman who bred dogs for more than 20 years will be arraigned on 85 charges of animal cruelty next month after authorities rescued dozens of near-starving animals at her rural home, police said Tuesday. Phyllis Martin, 50, who lives near Paron in northern Saline County, was charged with the offenses after county deputies followed a tip last week and visited her home, which also serves as her breeding business. According to a police report, authorities found dogs penned with no food and little water, said Scott Courtney, a detective with the Saline County sheriff's office.
Metro on 07/16/2018