100 years ago
Nov. 23, 1918
MENA -- No indictments were returned in the robbery of the Bank of Vandervoort by the Grand Jury, which adjourned yesterday, after returning 25+ indictments. Thomas Hammonds, a deputy sheriff at Vandervoort, and Miss Irvine Grammer, aged 19, were arrested a week ago today, charged with the robbery, which occurred November 14 and which netted thieves approximately $10,000 worth of Liberty bonds and $500 in cash. Miss Grammer refused to testify before the Grand Jury and was fined $50 on a charge of contempt of court, by Judge J.S. Lake. She was recommitted to jail. She told the court she had given her word of honor not to reveal information the Grand Jury asked of her.
50 years ago
Nov. 23, 1968
• Insurance companies are beginning to stop writing automobile insurance policies in Conway County because of high damage verdicts by the County's juries. The Petit Jean County Headlight at Morrilton carried an article this week reporting that "a number" of major insurance companies had stopped writing policies, particularly automobile policies, because of the heavy court judgments. Four insurance agencies at Morrilton had advertisements on the subject. Assistant State Insurance Commissioner E.J.W. Fennell confirmed Friday that the withdrawals by major companies were becoming a problem...He said Conway County had been a longstanding problem but that companies had begun to withdraw only recently.
25 years ago
Nov. 23, 1993
• About 50 Hillcrest residents met Monday evening with the state Department of Community Punishment staff and members of the Board of Correction and Community Punishment to voice concerns about the conversion of nearby Rogers Hall into a community punishment center. The crowd -- sometimes angry, sometimes cynical, very vocal -- tried to tell the panel about their reservations over neighborhood safety and their outrage that the state failed to consult them before acting. "I wish I was given the opportunity to give input before they made their decision," said Paul Crawford, a board member of the Hillcrest Neighborhood Association.
10 years ago
Nov. 23, 2008
CAMP SHELBY, Miss. -- The first wave of soldiers with Arkansas' 39th Infantry Brigade arrives Tuesday night at this southern Mississippi post, the last stop on their journey home from Iraq. The contingent will consist of about 160 soldiers, with the remainder of the more than 3,000 troops who deployed with the state's largest National Guard unit arriving over the next few weeks... State officials have spent the past six months devising a plan to jump-start what is likely to be the Arkansas National Guard's lengthy recovery from recent years of deployment, which have taken a heavy toll on the brigade and the Guard as a whole. Every unit in the state supplied soldiers for the deployment earlier this year when the 39th fell short of manning requirements. And that pull of soldiers affected each of those units' abilities to deploy again in the near future. Every major unit in the state has now deployed to Iraq at least once.
Metro on 11/23/2018