100 years ago
July 21, 1919
• Persons who took a tiny baby to the Methodist orphanage, 1610 Elm street, late last night neglected to go through the usual formalities incident to placing a child in the home. Instead, they left the little child lying in a half-open suitcase at the front door of the orphanage and fled. The child was discovered about 11:15 last night by the matron of the home, who at once took it in and prepared to care for it along with her other little charges. Later it was learned that persons had been seen running away from the orphanage a short time previous to the finding of the baby. The nameless child is said to appear to be between six and ten days old. In the suitcase with the baby were some infant's clothing and several bottles of medicine.
50 years ago
July 21, 1969
HOT SPRINGS -- Marilyn Kay Allen had been the new Miss Arkansas of 1969 for 12 hours when she met Sunday with newsmen and she was "slowly descending" from the excitement of the finals. ... It was Miss Allen's second try -- she was second runner up in the 1968 pageant. ... The two preliminaries she won last year were the swim suit and talent division. She duplicated the feat this year with an acrobatic routine and a shapely 37-24-35 figure. Miss Allen represented North Little Rock in the pageant. Last year she represented State College of Arkansas, where she is a senior.
25 years ago
July 21, 1994
FORREST CITY -- State police and St. Francis County sheriff's deputies arrested Jimmy Luttrell, 40, of Caldwell at his home Tuesday night. ... A state police spokesman, Wayne Jordan, said crystal methamphetamine worth an estimated $672,000 was seized. Glenn Ramsey, an investigator with the sheriff's office, said officers also seized $19,030 in cash, 17 firearms and a 1993 Dodge pickup truck. He said the arrest was the culmination of a two-month investigation by state police and county officers. ... Jordan said investigators are trying to learn where the drugs were made, possibly in California. Caldwell is a small town about five miles north of Forrest City.
10 years ago
July 21, 2009
• A 28-year-old Conway man admitted on Monday to shooting a Little Rock McDonald's worker who had come to the rescue of the man's girlfriend and was given a 40-year prison sentence, the maximum possible. The victim, Nigel Haskett, was seriously injured in the shooting. Perry Kennon, with a whisper and a nod, admitted to first-degree battery, third-degree domestic battery, felon in possession of a firearm and, in another case, third-degree domestic battery, involving the same woman that Haskett, 23, tried to rescue in August at the McDonald's restaurant on North Rodney Parham Road. The Aug. 26, 2008, confrontation inside the restaurant was caught on video but the shooting was unrecorded. The restaurant's cameras also show Haskett staggering back inside and collapsing. ... Ward told the judge that Haskett pushed Kennon out of the restaurant after Kennon had punched Jessica Canady, the mother of two of his children, in the face. She said Haskett and Kennon grappled on the ground outside the restaurant until Kennon was able to pull a gun and shoot the younger man in the chest, critically wounding him, before escaping. ... Kennon was arrested about a week after the shooting in Hot Springs by police acting on a tip that he was at a Rock Reef Circle home.
Metro on 07/21/2019