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100 YEARS AGO Feb. 15, 1918

ARKADELPHIA — The F. J. Carpenter barn and contents was burned yesterday, the loss being $2,700, partly covered by insurance. A considerable amount of hay and corn was lost. It is feared that the recent burning of barns in this section are the acts of an incendiary, as no less than three large ones have been destroyed recently and some smaller ones have been burned. All of the barns burned have been filled with grain and hay and implements.

50 YEARS AGO Feb. 15, 1968

■ A group of legislators and John H. Haley, chairman of the state Penitentiary Board, collaborated Wednesday in drawing up a brand new penitentiary reform bill that will be introduced in the legislature today, replacing administration legislation that appeared headed for trouble. After the meeting, state Senator Knox Nelson of Pine Bluff predicted that the new bill would pass the Senate. He had told Haley at the start of the meeting that the administration’s bill could not get through the Senate without being amended so severely that there would be little left of it.

25 YEARS AGO Feb. 15, 1993

BATESVILLE — The Independence County sheriff’s office will share an employee with North Arkansas Human Services System Inc., a private nonprofit agency serving the mentally ill, in a pilot program that could become a model for the state. The deputy will specialize in investigating sex crimes against women and children. She will work over 90 percent of the time for the county, but will be available as needed for NAHSS to screen those arrested who may need psychiatric help, Sheriff Ron Webb said.

10 YEARS AGO Feb. 15, 2008

■ A Pulaski County circuit judge on Thursday rescinded the $1 million bail for a 21-year-old Little Rock man accused of two killings, including the slaying of a woman outside Juanita’s restaurant, after hearing police are investigating him in connection with a third killing. Bill James, the attorney for James Darnell Cribbs, disputed that authorities have enough evidence to convict Cribbs of manslaughter and capital murder in the first two killings, let alone tie him to a third. He said Cribbs, with only a felony theft conviction on his record, should have his bail reduced. “One million dollars [bond] is the equivalent of no bond,” James told Judge Chris Piazza at Thursday’s bail hearing.