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100 YEARS AGO Dec. 29, 1917
WINSLOW — A coroner’s jury investigating the death of Oscar Scott, aged 16, son of Mrs. Rose Toon, returned a verdict yesterday that the boy was accidentally killed by his nine-year-old step-brother, Alf Toon. The top of young Scott’s head was blown off with a shotgun in a scuffle with his step-brother at the Toon home, five miles east of Winslow.
50 YEARS AGO Dec. 29, 1967
The Pulaski Heights Presbyterian Church at 4401 Woodlawn Street and the Pulaski County Association for Retarded Children will jointly initiate a program in January for mentally retarded children six through 12 years of age. The program will be directed by Mrs. Robert O. Childers, a former employee of the Easter Seal Agency, assisted by Mrs. R. E. Wells and two volunteers. Initially there will be space for 10 children but Mrs. Childers said she hoped to expand the program later. It will be conducted at the Church.
25 YEARS AGO Dec. 29, 1992
A 35-year-old woman was raped, robbed, and held hostage for three hours by two masked men who kidnapped her late Sunday from the driveway of her home near Hall High School, Little Rock police said. The woman told police she was unloading groceries from her car about 10 p.m. when two men, both wearing black ski masks and one carrying a sawed off pump shotgun, approached her. She told the police the men robbed her of $35 cash and an automatic teller machine card, then forced her to drink some vodka, get back into her car and drive them to North Little Rock.
10 YEARS AGO Dec. 29, 2007
Don’t be fooled by the bright lights, residents at The Cottages apartment complex said Friday night when holding a candlelight vigil to protest the darkness that’s enveloped their community for weeks. Complex owners carted in and switched on four tall portable lights Friday night to illuminate the 144-unit property off West 36th Street. The permanent light fixtures lining The Cottages’ parking lots and sidewalks have been dead since workers accidentally tore through buried wires as they installed new fence posts throughout the complex, which is home to disabled and elderly residents.