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100 YEARS AGO Aug. 23, 1916
NEWPORT — A coroner’s jury today exonerated Ralph McCloskey, a youth 14 years of age, of blame in connection with the killing of his step-father, Jesse Daugherty, whom the lad shot while Daugherty was beating his wife, the boy’s mother. The action of the jury was taken on account of the extreme youth of the boy and because it was shown that he acted in defense of his mother, who now relies upon him for support.
50 YEARS AGO Aug. 23, 1966
The grandfather of three Negro children at Altheimer asked federal District Court at Little Rock Monday for an injunction to keep the Altheimer School District from charging his grandchildren tuition to attend predominantly white schools. Joseph Spriggs filed suit on behalf of himself and his grandchildren, Linda Ann Johnson, Donnie Ray Johnson and Wanda Kay Johnson, who lives with him, against the Altheimer School District and James Walker, superintendent of schools.
25 YEARS AGO Aug. 23, 1991
A Little Rock woman told police she saw movement in the baby she delivered in July while under the influence of crack cocaine and alcohol, but the state medical examiner ruled the baby was stillborn. “If the medical examiner had said the baby was alive when it was born and that she killed it we would prosecute her for murder,” Little Rock police homicide Sgt. Carroll Harrison said Thursday. “They say cocaine could cause it, but you’ve got to prove it.” Harrison said later in the interview.
10 YEARS AGO Aug. 23, 2006
TUCKER — The state’s prison director said Tuesday that he is considering scrapping the long-standing practice of allowing unsupervised inmates to transport other work-release prisoners after two drivers used state vans to escape last month. Department of Correction Director Larry Norris said he will make a final decision within the next few months. He can make the change himself without consulting the Board of Corrections, but Norris said he will seek its guidance. “It’s a question of money to get officers on there [the work release vans],” Norris said after a meeting of state legislators at the department’s training academy near the Tucker Unit in Jefferson County. “There are going to be problems everywhere — it’s a problem business,” Norris said. “But we’ve had a good track record.”