100 years ago
March 25, 1919
ENGLAND, March 24 -- An airplane from Eberts Field, piloted by Lieut. F. G. Watson, with Cadet Parks as a passenger, was overturned near the England High School at 2 o'clock this afternoon while attempting to make a landing. The occupants were uninjured. The plane circled about the school building before descending and as it neared the ground Lieutenant Watson lost control and the machine was overturned and demolished. A stiff wind was blowing.
50 years ago
March 25, 1969
FORREST CITY -- The trials of six Negro youths who were arrested during the disturbance last Thursday at Lincoln Junior High School here were sent to St. Francis Circuit Court Monday...The six are free on $500 bond on each of two counts of creating a disturbance on public school property and resisting an officer...Judge Hamilton said the youths were caught "red handed"... About 200 students at the junior high school erupted in a wild, stone-throwing melee after learning of the dismissal of Rev. J. F. Cooley, a science teacher at the school who has been active in the civil rights movement here. Almost every window in the building was broken, lockers were destroyed, and the hallways were in shambles. The school remained closed Monday.
25 years ago
March 25, 1994
• The landlord of a 16-unit apartment complex at 3612 Foster St. will be cited after a city code enforcement officer discovered garbage stored inside a vacant apartment Thursday. Barbara Hyatt, Little Rock code enforcement officer, said the city will issue Barry Bivens a citation for storing garbage in a vacant unit at the Southwest Little Rock complex...Hyatt said she visited the Foster Street apartment complex late Thursday afternoon...while there, she said she discovered a vacant apartment filled with garbage. "It was a pretty good mound of garbage," she said. "The majority of it was in plastic bags. Some of it was opened. You could definitely tell it was garbage by the smell."
10 years ago
March 25, 2009
• Going to the aid of his wife as she and an armed man struggled over her purse in the parking lot of the Wal-Mart Supercenter in west Little Rock on Monday night, a 63-year-old dentist pulled out a .357-caliber revolver and opened fire, striking the would-be robber in the buttocks, police said Tuesday. Jonathan Terry, 24, of England fled but was found a short time later seeking treatment at the UAMS Medical Center. When he is released from the hospital, police said, they plan to charge him with aggravated robbery. The dentist, John Antonetz of Little Rock, who works for the Central Arkansas Veterans Health Care System, had a permit to carry a concealed handgun, police said...According to police, Antonetz and his wife, Lydia Pace-Antonetz, were loading groceries into their sport utility vehicle at the store at 19301 Cantrell Road just before 11:30 p.m. when a man wearing a wig and a cap approached the vehicle, pulled out a silver revolver and announced a robbery. The couple ran from the man, but he pointed the gun at Pace-Antonetz and grabbed her purse. As they struggled, the man struck Pace-Antonetz and repeatedly pointed a gun at her and her husband, police said. A police report said Antonetz "went to the passenger side of the vehicle and retrieved his revolver from his concealed holster in his pants."
Metro on 03/25/2019