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100 YEARS AGO May 9, 1917

HOT SPRINGS — Hopkins Spear, prosecuting attorney, was today convicted by a jury in Circuit Court of malfeasance in office, and was fined $400. Spear had been indicted by a recent Grand Jury for alleged nonfeasance and malfeasance, on charges growing out of an investigation made by Burns’ detectives into alleged violation of the anti-gambling laws last season. The verdict today does not, it is said, remove the prosecutor from office.

50 YEARS AGO May 9, 1967

■ Representatives of the city of Little Rock met privately Monday with supporters of the proposed incorporation of Mabelvale to try to resolve their differences concerning annexation of Mabelvale to Little Rock. Not too much was accomplished. About the only benefit of the meeting at the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce office was that it opened communications between the city and the community, spokesmen for both sides said. It is yet to be determined how valuable this will be.

25 YEARS AGO May 9, 1992

■ Little Rock and North Little Rock will use federal money this summer to expand their recreational and educational activities to include hundreds of more youths this summer. Details of the Department of Housing and Urban Development grants were announced Friday by housing authority and city government officials from both cities. “This is an education and recreation program. It’s important to note that this program contains both,” said Joseph R. “Bob” Mason, executive director of the Little Rock Housing Authority.

10 YEARS AGO May 9, 2007

MORRILTON — A rural Conway County man pleaded guilty Tuesday to first-degree murder in the still-unexplained October 2005 shooting deaths of his grandparents with whom he was living in the tiny community of Holly Springs. Samuel Adam Criswell, now 20, was sentenced to life in prison by Judge Frank Arey of Morrilton, presiding in Conway County Circuit Court. State law dictates that Criswell must serve 25 years before a possible release from prison and, then, only if the governor commutes his sentence. Shackled and handcuffed, Criswell pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Charlotte Criswell, 64, and Samuel Criswell Jr., 59, on Oct. 25, 2005.