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On March 24, 1998, a school shooting occurred at Westside Middle School in unincorporated Craighead County, Arkansas near the city of Jonesboro. [1] Perpetrators 13-year-old Mitchell Johnson and 11-year-old Andrew Golden fatally shot four students and a teacher with multiple weapons, and both were arrested when they attempted to flee the scene.
Craighead County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 111,231. [1] The county has two county seats — Jonesboro and Lake City. [2] Craighead County is Arkansas's 58th county, formed on February 19, 1859, and named for state Senator Thomas Craighead.
Website. 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 2022, the city had an estimated population of 79,876, [4] making it the fifth-most populous city in Arkansas.
The Jonesboro Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of two counties – Craighead and Poinsett – in northeast Arkansas, anchored by the city of Jonesboro. As of the 2010 census, the MSA had a population of 121,026 (a July 1, 2012 estimate has placed the population at 124,042). [1]
Tornado outbreak of May 1968. The Tornado outbreak of May 1968 was a significant and deadly tornado outbreak that struck most of the central and southern United States from May 15 to May 16, 1968. Producing 46 tornadoes, the outbreak killed at least 72 people, including 45 in Arkansas alone. The outbreak also produced two F5 tornadoes in Iowa.
History. It was first founded in 1976 as NEA Medical Center. In 2007, it changed its name to NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital and partnered with Baptist Memorial Health Care in Memphis. [1] In 2013, NEA Baptist Health System has completed a new construction project, $400 million medical campus in Jonesboro, AR. [2]
Lynching of Wade Thomas. / 35.838149; -90.70495. On December 26, 1920, an African-American man named Wade Thomas was lynched in Jonesboro, Arkansas, by a white mob. The mob seized Thomas from the Jonesboro jail after he allegedly shot local Patrolman Elmer Ragland, and murdered him.
Evan Lindquist (May 23, 1936 – December 18, 2023) is an American artist and printmaker who was appointed to be the first Artist Laureate for the State of Arkansas. He has concentrated on the medium of copperplate engraving for more than 50 years. His compositions are memorable for their emphasis on calligraphic lines.