100 years ago
March 16, 1918
• At one stroke the backbone of moonshining in Montgomery county was broken by a posse of 15 federal and county officials and 11 of the alleged illicit manufacturers were brought to Little Rock yesterday and placed in the Pulaski County jail to await their hearing before Commissioner W. S. Allen on charges of conspiring to defraud the government revenues. One act of the conspiracy charged is the killing of W. C. Fisher and his son, Ed, who were shot from ambush February 24 on the road through Fancy Hill. Of the arrests seven men are Cogburns of Fancy Hill, three are kinsmen by marriage, and only one is unrelated to the family.
50 years ago
March 16, 1968
BATESVILLE -- Michael Dew, 3, and his sister, Sherry, 4, died Friday in an explosion and fire that destroyed their two-story seven-room home about five miles north of here. They were the children of Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Dew. Dew said he was working on a car in the front yard and his wife was asleep in the house when the fire started. Dew said he heard an explosion that apparently came from the kitchen stove. He said the house burst into flames immediately after the explosion. The cause of the fire had not been determined.
25 years ago
March 16, 1993
• The Arkansas Supreme Court on Monday upheld the conviction of a former North Little Rock day care operator in the rape and abuse of children at the center. The high court said the issues raised on appeal by Kenneth Holloway, who was convicted in July 1992 in Pulaski County Circuit Court, "are without merit." Holloway was sentenced to four life terms plus 120 years for rape and sexual abuse of nine children who attended Peggy's Day Care Center. Holloway and his wife, Peggy, ran the center.
10 years ago
March 16, 2008
BENTON -- Short on options and time to find a long term source of drinking water, Saline County officials are exploring whether to build a reservoir in a remote pocket of the county. With its steady growth, the county is projected to exhaust its existing water sources in eight years. And a plan to tap Lake Ouachita -- the solution that county officials have considered most of this decade -- is in jeopardy. County Judge Lanny Fite has asked the Natural Resources Conservation Service to study the proposal to put a reservoir and dam on timberland -- the first step in a lengthy and involved process.
Metro on 03/16/2018