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100 YEARS AGO March 7, 1918
FORT SMITH — Meetings began tonight in western Arkansas in the interest of the routing the Bankhead highway from Little Rock to Fort Smith. The first was held at Charleston and was attended by a record-breaking crowd. Fifteen automobiles carried Fort Smith residents. Meetings will be held at Paris Friday and Saturday and next week there will be a similar gathering in Franklin and Logan counties.
50 YEARS AGO March 7, 1968
Fred Allen Wordlow, 18, of 1701 Cumberland Street, and Eliga Alexander, 22, of Route 2, Little Rock, were shot Wednesday night during a disturbance involving several persons in the area around the 1900 and 2000 blocks of Commerce and Rock Streets. Wordlow was shot at 8:30 p.m. when he went to the door at 1904 Commerce Street. The police said he was shot in the chest and the head. Wordlow’s assailant then reportedly pursued several other persons down Twentieth Street to Twentieth and Rock Streets, were Alexander was shot. The police said a suspect was being held.
25 YEARS AGO March 7, 1993
A teacher who has operated a kindergarten in Harrison for 55 years will be allowed to keep her child-care license despite allegations of inappropriate discipline, a state board ruled last week. But the Child Care Facility Review Board’s decision requires Virginia Earnest, operator of Mrs. Earnest’s Kindergarten, to take a training course and be monitored by licensing specialists. The board acted after hearing testimony Thursday from state child-care licensing specialists with the Department of Human Services.
10 YEARS AGO March 7, 2008
A teenager who police say showed up at Boyle Park with her mother, both of them armed with crowbars, and helped start a melee that left seven people injured last week has been arrested on charges of aggravated assault and inciting a riot, police said Thursday. Kelliee Williams, 18, was arrested at 10 a.m. Wednesday, after turning herself in at the Little Rock police headquarters, police spokesman Lt. Terry Hastings said. Williams’ mother, Lisa Williams Davidson, is also wanted on the same charges, but police have been unable to find her, Hastings said. Police said 20 to 30 people, including students from J.A. Fair and Hall high schools, had gathered at the park the afternoon of Feb. 26 when the brawl broke out.