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  2. 1998 Westside Middle School shooting - Wikipedia

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    Families of victims awarded $150 million in wrongful death lawsuit against Johnson and Golden. The Westside Middle School shooting was a mass shooting that occurred on March 24, 1998, at Westside Middle School in unincorporated Craighead County, Arkansas near the city of Jonesboro. [ 1 ] 13-year-old Mitchell Johnson and 11-year-old Andrew ...

  3. List of lynching victims in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Arkansas: 1921: Asked for his wages: Burned to death; crowd of 500 [336]: 3 Brownie Tuggles: African-American Hope: Hempstead County: Arkansas: March 15, 1921 Assaulting a white woman Hackney, "Curly" 30: White: Waco: McLennan: Texas: 1921: Rape of an 8-year-old girl: Taken from jail and hanged by a mob [351] William Turner: 18 African-American ...

  4. Jonesboro, Arkansas - Wikipedia

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    jonesboro.org. Jonesboro (/ ˈdʒoʊnzbʌrə /) is a city located on Crowley's Ridge in the northeastern corner of the U.S. State of Arkansas. Jonesboro is one of two county seats of Craighead County. In 2023, the city had an estimated population of 80,560, [4] making it the fifth-most populous city in Arkansas.

  5. Church War of Jonesboro - Wikipedia

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    The Church Wars of Jonesboro were a series of conflicts in Jonesboro, Arkansas between followers of the fundamentalist evangelist Joe Jeffers and the Reverend Dow H. Heard, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Jonesboro. Members of Jeffers' congregation also attacked the mayor and police chief, resulting in Governor Harvey Parnell calling out ...

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  7. Basil Baker - Wikipedia

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    In 1895, the bar admitted Baker and he was the city attorney in Jonesboro, Arkansas, in 1903–1904. In 1918 he served as the City Water and Light (CWL)'s attorney. While at CWL, the company withstood takeover attempts by Arkansas Power and Light (AP&L) which sought to take their home base.

  8. Sid McMath - Wikipedia

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    Sidney Sanders McMath (June 14, 1912 – October 4, 2003) was a U.S. marine, attorney and the 34th governor of Arkansas from 1949 to 1953. In defiance of his state's political establishment, he championed rapid rural electrification, massive highway and school construction, the building of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, strict bank and utility regulation, repeal of the poll ...

  9. List of prematurely reported obituaries - Wikipedia

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    Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...