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100 YEARS AGO

Dec. 29, 1918

■ Two thieves, a man and a woman, believed by local detectives to be professionals on Thursday lifted a tray of diamonds from a show case of the Crescent jewelry store, 214 Main street. The exact value of the diamonds, which were small and set in rings, is not known, however the loss will range between $300 and $500. News of the robbery was suppressed until yesterday. The robbery was discovered shortly after it occurred, but not until the man and woman had a chance to leave.

50 YEARS AGO

Dec. 29, 1968

■ The Pulaski County Audubon Society Christmas Count turned up two evening grosbeaks among the 75 species counted Saturday. They were the first sighted since the count began in 1954. “We knew they were there,” said Herbert H. Daniel about the grosbeaks. Locating and sighting them was simply a matter of being at the right place at the right time, he said. The right place was 2 Malcolm Cove. Nineteen birdwatchers participated in the count. Armed with binoculars, they hunted birds in a circle 15 miles in diameter and centered in North Little Rock. Henry N. Halberg … compiler for the count, said that the number of species sighted was “a good high average.” 25 YEARS AGO

Dec. 29, 1993

■ A 3-year-old girl was critically injured by a stray bullet and a Little Rock man was fatally shot when a Tuesday afternoon shootout erupted outside a Southwest Little Rock pawnshop. The injured child, Robin Leath of Mabelvale, was taken to Southwest Hospital and transferred to Arkansas Children’s Hospital about 10 p.m., hospital spokesmen said. She was in critical condition at Children’s late Tuesday night.

10 YEARS AGO

Dec. 29, 2008

■ Mayor Patrick Hays started almost seven years ago trying to land a tugboat that survived Pearl Harbor to showcase on North Little Rock’s riverfront. But as the historic Hoga languished among the Navy’s mothball fleet in Suisun Bay off the California coast, Hays said last week that he’s growing increasingly frustrated by obstacles to transport the vessel to North Little Rock. “It’s easier to get a submarine from Turkey than a tugboat from California,” Hays said. The Hoga — a surviving vessel from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 — is supposed to join the city’s Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum alongside the World War II submarine Razorback.