100 years ago
Nov. 14, 1920
HOT SPRINGS -- No criminal trial in the history of Hot Springs has aroused the interest that is being manifested in the one to start in Garland Circuit Court tomorrow, when Tom ("Curley") Slaughter and Fulton ("Kid") Green, alleged Oklahoma bandits, will be placed on tried for the alleged murder of Deputy Sheriff Row Brown on October 10. Slaughter and Green have confessed to many bank robberies, it is said. In the opinion of bankers, they are as dangerous as any outlaws since the days of the James boys. Information reached local officials that some of their friends might make an effort to liberate them and Circuit Judge Scott Wood will have at least six extra officers on guard throughout the trial.
50 years ago
Nov. 14, 1970
• A motion to dismiss a suit asking for an injunction to halt the construction of Gillham Dam on the Cossatot River was denied Friday by federal Judge G. Thomas Eisele of Little Rock in a one-sentence order. The suit was filed October 1 by the Environmental Defense Fund, the Ozark Society, the Arkansas Audubon Society, the Arkansas Ecology Center and two individuals. The plaintiffs want to keep the river in its free-flowing state.
25 years ago
Nov. 14, 1995
HOT SPRINGS -- Officials have found a second fracture in West Mountain that could produce a rock slide similar to the one that killed a store clerk and injured two people Saturday. "There's a buckle on the same slide, the same rock formation," street superintendent Dave Stanage said Monday. The plate sliding off now is about 20 feet wide and 30 feet high, Stanage said. "It's a dangerous spot," he said. "If you look at it, it looks like the Leaning Tower of Pisa." Stanage said the loose plate poses a lesser threat because it is near a parking lot to the north of a row of historic businesses damaged in Saturday's slide.
10 years ago
Nov. 14, 2010
• A freshwater mussel and one of the world's largest amphibians disappearing from Arkansas' waterways are being proposed for protection under the federal Endangered Species Act. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reports that the snuffbox mussel has disappeared from 65 percent of the streams where it was historically found. And the population of Ozark hellbenders -- a species of aquatic salamander -- has declined by 75 percent over its range, the agency reports. Last week, the agency released its annual list of candidates for protection.