100 years ago
March 15, 1920
Hot Springs -- The Boston Red Sox won from the Little Rock Travelers here this afternoon, but they had to play some good baseball to do it. The score was 8 to 3 against Kid Elberfeld's outfit which came over to give Ed Barrow's American League entrant its first tryout of the season and to give Hot Springs and its guests their first taste of baseball -- no, not taste, feast. And believe us, the home and transient fans ate it up to the last out in the ninth inning. They came out to Whittington Park baseball hungry and they left with praise of the fare and of the service. The Boston Red Sox and the Little Rock Travelers spread a big feed and did a wonderful business.
50 years ago
March 15, 1970
• State AFL-CIO president J. Bill Becker told a crowd of about 200 persons who had marched from MacArthur Park to City Hall Saturday that the AFL-CIO would declare a statewide boycott against the businesses of the three Little Rock water commissioners if no progress was made toward settling a strike by Water Department employes by next Saturday.
25 years ago
March 15, 1995
• A federal judge told lawyers Tuesday to provide more information about possible danger to a convict who sued over Arkansas prison conditions. Claims by inmate Jimmy Rudd that he has been retaliated against for his role in a lawsuit challenging prison conditions probably belong in a separate suit, U.S. District Judge G. Thomas Eisele said. But the judge wants more information on Rudd's contention that he is in danger in a maximum-security prison unit that also houses a convicted murderer accused of killing an inmate and wounding another in 1992. During a telephone conference Tuesday, Eisele gave lawyers representing the Correction Department until Monday to tell him about any contacts between Rudd and the convicted murderer accused in the 1992 attack.
10 years ago
March 15, 2010
• A decade-long project to relocate the fat pocketbook mussel during bridge construction work in northeast Arkansas has helped move the shellfish close to being removed from the endangered species list. At the least, the fat pocketbook could be elevated to threatened species and the environmental planning protocol the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department had to follow in handling the mussel on federal bridge projects -- a process that could take as long as 210 days now -- could be shortened, according to a leading participant in the working group behind the initiative.
Metro on 03/15/2020