100 years ago
May 26, 1920
• J.D. Brandon, white, is in jail at Benton. He is held for the Little Rock police and an officer will leave this morning to return him here. Brandon is wanted on a charge of grand larceny. The alleged crime was committed while Brandon was a prisoner at police headquarters. Brandon was returned from Hot Springs about 10 days ago and lodged in jail here for Benton officers. He was wanted at Benton to face a charge of stealing a coat from a passenger on a Pullman car passing through Benton.
50 years ago
May 26, 1970
HOT SPRINGS -- Pete Hill of Hot Springs, state commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, is asking officers and leaders of the state organization to support the recall of Senator J. William Fulbright (Dem., Ark.). Jim Johnson, former state Supreme Court justice, is heading a campaign to put on the November general election ballot a proposed constitutional amendment that would permit an election to be held to recall Fulbright.
25 years ago
May 26, 1995
• Environmental Protection Agency officials said Thursday that the $25 million cleanup plan they are recommending for Jacksonville's Vertac Chemical Corp. plant site probably falls somewhere between what city residents want and what a former owner of the plant wants. Rick Ehrhart, the EPA's remedial project manager, said the EPA would recommend that any soil at the site containing more than 5 parts per billion of dioxin should be cleaned up. At that level, the site could someday be commercially developed. Ehrhart announced the recommendation at an informal community meeting Thursday in Jacksonville.
10 years ago
May 26, 2010
• An ordinance that would ban exotic animals and livestock such as horses from pedestrian bridges was tabled Tuesday by the Pulaski County Quorum Court in a 9-5 vote that led the sponsor of the proposal to leave the meeting before it was adjourned. "This is unbelievable," Patricia Dicker could be heard saying as she prepared to leave the meeting. The ban was proposed after four horses crossed the Big Dam Bridge last month, and their riders didn't clean up the horse manure they left behind. Public Works Director Sherman Smith said that not only are the large animals creating unsanitary conditions for the bikers and pedestrians who use the bridge, a horse can be potentially dangerous on the span, which is only 14 feet wide.
Metro on 05/26/2020