100 years ago
May 29, 1918
• Governor Brough has been renominated over Smith by an overwhelming majority. At 4 o'clock this morning he had twice as many votes as his opponent. With 46,504 votes accounted for by the Gazette's correspondents, the governor had received 30,966 and Judge Smith 15,538. This includes partial returns from 63 out of 75 counties. Judge Smith has carried Hot Spring county, but partial returns from his home county, Arkansas, give Brough a lead over him there.
50 years ago
May 29, 1968
• The House Judiciary Committee voted 6-0 Tuesday to give a "do not pass" recommendation to Governor Rockefeller's proposed riot prevention act (HB 22). The Committee, composed of lawyers, decided that the bill contained a number of flaws. Representative James L. Sheets of Siloam Springs, the sponsor, did not say what he planned to do with the bill. It could still be brought to a vote on the House floor despite the adverse recommendation. The bill had been amended Monday at the governor's request to tone down certain provisions, but some members of the Committee still felt it was too strong.
25 years ago
May 29, 1993
• RUSSELLVILLE -- Darlene Evans was sentenced Friday to life in prison after a Pope County Circuit Court jury disregarded another suspect's confession and found Evans guilty of first-degree murder in a 1989 slaying. Jurors deliberated about two hours before convicting the 25-year-old Morrilton (Conway County) woman in the Jan. 24, 1989, death of Pamela Smith, 24, of Atkins (Pope County). The prosecution had sought a conviction of the more serious charge of capital murder, though the death penalty was waived.
10 years ago
May 29, 2008
• The outdoor wedding of Melissa Smith and Mike Beavers along Piney Creek in rural Pope County was no ordinary ceremony. For one thing, the bride and the groom took along their dog, a pit bull named Honey. So did a wedding intruder -- or perhaps his fiancee -- though authorities don't seem to know much about that canine. Then, after Smith, 35, and Beavers, 40, tied the knot but before the celebration ended, police say the intruder shot them and two other people. On Wednesday, the bride, interviewed from her hospital room in Little Rock, said she can't remember a thing about the Saturday afternoon ordeal.
Metro on 05/29/2018