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100 YEARS AGO
May 3, 1920
MOUNTAIN HOME — John Ashley, prosecuting attorney of the Sixteenth Judicial District, said today that he would prosecute anyone guilty of breaking the laws pertaining to the killing of song birds or destroying their nests. He is urging peace officers in his district to report all infringements. Ample laws are on the statutes, but they are laxly enforced, few people realizing the good that birds do the farmers, he said.
50 YEARS AGO
May 3, 1970
HOT SPRINGS — The Garland County Circuit Court rape trial of William Lee Maxwell, a young Hot Springs Negro, was barely mentioned in the state press in March 1962 when it happened. Monday it becomes what many observers feel is the most important case of criminal law in the United States Supreme Court’s history.
25 YEARS AGO
May 3, 1995
SEARCY — A former Higginson city clerk-treasurer admitted Tuesday that she embezzled about $6,000 from the city by manipulating invoices and bills beginning in 1993. Prosecuting Attorney Chris Raff of Searcy said the former clerk, Kisa Bradley, 30, began serving a 10-year prison sentence Tuesday after she pleaded guilty in White County Circuit Court to a Class B felony theft charge. The maximum penalty for the charge is 20 years in prison. Bradley was charged after an investigation by Arkansas State Police and state auditors of city money that disappeared between November 1993 and July 1994. Raff said money from the $10,000 bond Bradley posted for her release after her arrest in January will be turned over to the city of Higginson as restitution.
10 YEARS AGO
May 3, 2010
PINE BLUFF — Economic development officials are developing a plan to help re-employ as many as possible of the 1,100 Pine Bluff Arsenal workers expected to lose their jobs within the next couple of years. The plan, which is expected to be in place as early as December, will be funded by a $623,000 federal grant and will include a regional economic development component. The plan will be formed from the ideas of about 80 business leaders, educators, economic developers and elected officials in Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Chicot, Cleveland, Desha, Drew, Grant, Jefferson, Lincoln, Pulaski, Lonoke, Dallas and Saline counties. “This gives us an opportunity to have funding to do studies, analysis and strategic planning that we would not otherwise have,” said Lou Ann Nisbett, president and CEO of the Economic Development Alliance of Jefferson County.