Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Maple Hill Cemetery (also known as Evergreen Cemetery) is located on Holly Street, north of the center of Helena, Arkansas, United States.It is set on 37 acres (15 ha) of land on the east side of Crowley's Ridge, overlooking the Mississippi River, and is the city's largest cemetery.
James D. Johnson (1924–2010), Arkansas Supreme Court Justice, segregationist leader; Robert W. Johnson (1814–1879), U.S. and Confederate States Senator; J. B. Judkins, Arkansas state senator, elected president of the state's senate in 1883; Allen Kerr (born 1956), former member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for Pulaski County; L–M
Irving Rogers Sr. was also the publisher who moved the company to new headquarters in North Andover. [9] During Rogers family ownership, the paper dropped "Lawrence" from its nameplate. Former Lawrence Mayor John J. Buckley, in 1990, lauded The Eagle-Tribune for helping the city bounce back from the closure of several mills in the 1950s.
An Arkansas couple sacrifices their wedding fund to save an injured dog, while an 85-year-old teacher in New York continues to inspire generations of students with her passion for teaching.
The history of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette goes back to the earliest days of territorial Arkansas. William E. Woodruff arrived at the territorial capital at Arkansas Post in late 1819 on a dugout canoe with a second-hand wooden press. He cranked out the first edition of the Arkansas Gazette on November 20, 1819, 17 years before Arkansas ...
Two Lakewood police officers that responded to a trespass call at a Best Buy store fatally shot the man after he reportedly pointed a firearm in the officer's direction. [130] 2024-12-01 Noe Rodriguez Martinez (31) Hispanic Santa Ana, California: A man who was wielding a fake rifle was fatally shot by two Santa Ana police officers. [131] 2024-12-01
Searcy was a stop on the defunct Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad, which provided passenger and freight service from 1906 to 1946 from Joplin, Missouri, to Helena in Phillips County in eastern Arkansas. [11] On August 9, 1965, a fire killed 53 civilian workers in a Titan II missile silo north of Searcy. It was one of the largest industrial ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Arkansas since 1976, when the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in the United States. 31 people have been executed in Arkansas since 1976: 30 males and 1 female ( Christina Marie Riggs ).