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100 YEARS AGO Dec. 26, 1916
HOT SPRINGS — In the arrest of George Brady and Franklin Johnson, captured on information furnished by Detectives Dave Young and Oscar Sullivan in Texarkana last Saturday and brought back to Hot Springs by local officers this afternoon, officials believe they have in the county jail two of the most notorious thieves in the country. The men have already confessed to a series of thefts which extend from Wyoming to Hot Springs. According to their confession, they operated successfully in Little Rock, where considerable copper wire was taken.
50 YEARS AGO Dec. 26, 1966
CAMDEN — Losses from Camden’s worst fire in modern times, which destroyed an entire block in the downtown area Saturday night, were estimated at more than $700,000 Sunday. Firemen Sunday continued pouring water in the smoldering wreckage of the four buildings that housed the Ben Franklin West Company and Copeland businesses and Stinson’s Jewelry Store, one of the city’s oldest firms.
25 YEARS AGO Dec. 26, 1991
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission has installed a toll-free number for those who catch people violating a new state law banning desecration of human remains in unregistered burial sites. The law, Act 753 of 1991, forbids digging in unmarked graves, including American Indian burial sites and Civil War, pioneer or slave cemeteries. It also prohibits the purchase, sale or bartering of human skeletal remains or items removed from graves and restricts the display of such items for profit.
10 YEARS AGO Dec. 26, 2006
Little Rock residents seeking city services have to navigate City Hall’s occasionally daunting phone system or pore over more than 200 city numbers in the phone book to find the right seven-digit help line. Soon their fingers will still have to do the walking, but they won’t have to go as far. On Jan. 2 Little Rock will join more than two dozen cities across the country that offer the popular 311 system. Residents who are tired of potholes, broken street lights, uncollected garbage and stray animals will be able to air complaints and demand help by dialing 3-1-1. It’ll be a first for Arkansas, though some of the state’s other large cities have already begun to look into it.