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100 YEARS AGO

May 31, 1917

SEARCY — Sheriff T. P. Plant of this county brought here today a man giving his name as John Moore, whom he arrested in Woodruff county, two miles from Augusta, on a charge of kidnapping. The girl in the case is only 14 years old and very pretty. She is Miss Vida Cleveland, daughter of Mrs. Head, who lives near Pangburn. The girl had been engaged in berry picking near Judsonia, where she met Moore and a man named Frank Stanford. The girl says the men represented themselves as actors. They said they intended to organize a company and offered her a leading part.

50 YEARS AGO

May 31, 1967

PINE BLUFF — Mayor Austin Franks said Tuesday that striking members of the Street, Sewer and Sanitation Department still had not entered into negotiations with the city. About 75 hourly wage employees of the Department walked out Monday morning in a protest for higher wages. They are members of Local 966 of the Arkansas Council of State, County and Municipal Employes. The walkout left the city without garbage pickup service except at the two hospitals. J. L. McAlister, Sanitation Department superintendent, told city residents that they could transport their own garbage to the city dump.

25 YEARS AGO

May 31, 1992

■ A Little Rock man was stabbed to death Saturday afternoon during an argument. Marvin Bell, 45, of 110 Granite Mountain Circle died of stab wounds he suffered about 4:45 p.m. at 1 Gilliam Park Road in the Granite Mountain area, Little Rock Police said. James Brown, 42, of 8516 German Road in Sweet Home was arrested on a charge of first-degree murder. According to a police report, Bell and Brown argued over some property that allegedly had been stolen from Brown.

10 YEARS AGO

May 31, 2007

EL DORADO — Steven D. Thompson, 34, of El Dorado broke into the house of his ex- girlfriend early Wednesday and shot her eight times as she held her 2-year- old daughter, police said. Police arrested Thompson on Wednesday afternoon at a hospital in Camden, where he was treated after wrecking a log truck he reportedly stole from a trucking business near Hampton after the shooting, police said. Thompson faces two counts of second-degree battery, and single counts of possession of a firearm by certain persons and residential burglary.