100 years ago
Jan. 20, 1918
SEARCY -- Steps will soon be taken to form a new county, to be known as Woodrow county. If this is done, Pangburn, which is 20 miles from Searcy, on the Missouri and North Arkansas railroad, will be the county seat, and its name also will be changed to Woodrow. The new county will be composed of six townships taken from White county, two from from Cleburne county, four from Independence and two from Jackson, and will be about 30 miles long and 18 miles wide.
50 years ago
Jan. 20, 1968
Harrison -- Milford Fuller, 51, and Leon W. Walton, 45, both Harrison businessmen, were each sentenced Friday to four years in the state prison after being found guilty of possessing stolen property in a trial January 9. Boone Circuit Judge Joe D. Villines gave the defendants' attorneys 60 days in which to appeal. Fuller and Walton were released on appeal bonds of $5,000 each. The two men were found guilty of possessing a color television set and a stereo record player allegedly taken from an appliance store at Seymour, Mo., May 23, 1967.
25 years ago
Jan. 20, 1993
WASHINGTON -- William Jefferson Clinton becomes the nation's 42nd president today in a ceremony filled with symbolism and tradition, taking the nation's highest office at a key moment in history and reaching the goal of his political career. Clinton will be sworn in at noon EST on the Capitol's west front by William Rehnquist, chief justice of the United States. Vice President-elect Gore will be sworn in 15 minutes earlier by Justice Byron White. Clinton will take office facing an unusually complex set of problems for a new president. He has promised to first turn his attention to the nation's economy, but also must confront foreign policy problems in several world hot spots.
10 years ago
Jan. 20, 2008
• A majority of the Little Rock School Board is expected to vote Thursday night to build a new school in the northwest part of the city as a prekindergarten-through-fifth-grade elementary school -- not as a combined elementary/middle school campus. Board members who have favored a combined school to be built at Cantrell Road and Taylor Loop West conceded Saturday at a work session that they don't have enough board votes or administrative support for a combined campus on the 18.5-acre site. A combined campus would serve pupils in grades prekindergarten through eight.
Metro on 01/20/2018