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100 YEARS AGO Feb. 5, 1918
When Charles Carmichael, white youth, stepped into the J. H. Martin Arms Co.’s store yesterday afternoon and confessed to Mr. Martin that he was implicated with the gang that robbed the store several weeks ago, the undoing of a trio of burglars started. Mr. Martin notified detective headquarters and Detectives Pitcock and Lewis arrested Carmichael. They lodged Carmichael in jail and from him received a tip on where the other boys implicated could be found.
50 YEARS AGO Feb. 5, 1968
Prosecuting Attorney Jeff Mobley of Russellville told a three-judge federal court Monday that he wasn’t interested in prosecuting Republican Party “underlings” who may have handed out checks in the 1966 general election in Faulkner County but wanted to go beyond them in search of “bigger game.” “I don’t want a tadpole when there is a frog available — at least an opportunity to look for that frog,” said Mobley, a Democrat who is prosecuting attorney for the five counties of the Fifth Judicial District.
25 YEARS AGO Feb. 5, 1993
CONWAY — A Jonesboro based group wants Gov. Jim Guy Tucker to investigate its allegations of brainwashing, profanity, and anti-religious attitudes at Arkansas Governor’s School. “Personally, I would like to see it shut down,” said Bobby L. Hester, head of American Family Association of Arkansas. Bruce Haggard, director of Arkansas Governor’s School and a Hendrix professor, said the group is misrepresenting several matters. “A few people with their own ax to grind have taken specific instances out of context and implied that’s what governor’s school stands for and that’s what we’re all about, Haggard said,
10 YEARS AGO Feb. 5, 2008
Some 200 foster children leave state care each year without finding permanent homes, putting them at greater risk for homelessness, unemployment and becoming parents at young ages, a report released Tuesday shows. Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, a nonprofit group in Little Rock, called on the state to take more steps to connect state-custody teenagers with adoptive parents and to better equip them to live on their own. “These are the children that truly slip through the cracks into adulthood,” said Jennifer Keith Ferguson, author of the report.