100 years ago
June 9, 1919
• The Executive Committee of the Arkansas Centennial Commission, appointed last Thursday by Governor Brough, will meet Thursday morning at 10 o'clock at the Little Rock Board of Commerce to consider plans for the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the formation of Arkansas into a territory. ... The state celebration probably will be held in Little Rock the week of November 17 to 22. Some of the delegates suggested that in connection with the centennial celebration a reunion of the soldiers who fought in the world war also be held.
50 years ago
June 9, 1969
• Thomas E. Frederick, 68, of 4 East Eighth Street, was shot three times in the stomach shortly before 11 p.m. Saturday during an attempted robbery at Tommy's Liquor Store at 1600 East Broadway, North Little Rock, the police reported. ... Frederick told the police that three men came into the store about 10:45 p.m., looked around, and demanded money from the cash register. Frederick resisted, he said, and one of the men brandished a pistol and shot him. They fled in a car, the police said.
25 years ago
June 9, 1994
• Two men were hospitalized, rush-hour traffic stacked up and an Interstate 30 overpass was closed Wednesday afternoon after a tractor-trailer load slammed into the span in Southwest Little Rock. State police said Cecil Travis, 32, of Sherwood was hauling a steel construction frame west on I-30 when the top of the frame struck the Otter Creek Exit overpass about 3:50 p.m. The impact knocked the frame off the trailer and onto a car driven by Lynn Nix, 82, of Fouke, police said. Travis and Nix were taken to nearby Southwest Hospital, where they were in stable condition Wednesday night, a spokesman said. The collision displaced the overpass, which police closed to traffic until repairs could be made. State police also closed one lane of the interstate. They reopened it at 6:15 p.m. Police said the overpass was 14 feet 8 inches high, while the frame was at least 15 feet high. Travis was driving the truck for John Clifton, a Broken Arrow, Okla., contractor, police said. He was about halfway to his destination when the accident occurred, police said.
10 years ago
June 9, 2009
• Two inmates who escaped from an Arkansas prison while disguised as correction officers had identification badges, handcuffs and a set of keys with them when they were captured in New York last week, authorities said Monday. Calvin Adams, 39, and Jeffrey Grinder, 32, also had loose tobacco, rolling papers and a bottle of rum in the car they were in when they were captured in Hornell, N.Y., about 70 miles south of Rochester, on June 2 after leading police on a 20-mile chase and running the car into a street sign, Hornell Police Chief Ted Murray said. The pair told Hornell investigators that they were on their way to New York City, where Grinder had a friend who would help them leave the country, Murray said. The inmates also said the car they were in had been left at the prison as part of a tobacco smuggling operation and that they took it without the owner's knowledge, he said. "They wouldn't specify exactly who left the car there, but they said there was a tobacco distribution ring that took place within the prison and as part of that, the car was left there with the tobacco in it," Murray said. "They knew it was going to be there and there was going to be a key in it."
Metro on 06/09/2019