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Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Catching up with former KARK 4 News anchor Kent Bates
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – When it comes to the list of former KARK 4 News anchors, all have found themselves in the middle of life-changing stories, and this week's Arkansas TV Legend is no different. Kent Bates covered major life-changing stories, including the 1998 Westside Middle School shooting in northeast Arkansas as well as the aftermath of 9/11 and hearing from Arkansans who witnessed it. Join KARK 4 News on Thursdays as we catch up with some familiar faces from the past. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
24-03-2025
- General
- Yahoo
On This Day, March 24: Germanwings crash kills 150 in France
March 24 (UPI) -- In 1603, Queen Elizabeth I of England died after 44 years of rule. She was succeeded by King James VI of Scotland, uniting England and Scotland under a single British monarch. In 1934, the United States granted independence to the Philippine Islands, effective July 4, 1946. In 1975, the beaver became the official symbol of Canada. In 1989, the Exxon Valdez hit a reef in the Gulf of Alaska, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil in the largest oil tanker spill in U.S. history. In 1998, four girls and a teacher at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Ark., were killed by bullets fired from a nearby wooded area. The shooters were two boys, ages 11 and 13, who were convicted as juveniles and served prison time. In 1999, NATO airstrikes hit military targets across the Yugoslav union of Serbia-Montenegro after ethnic cleansing launched by Serbian forces against Kosovar Albanians. In 2004, the European Commission fined software giant Microsoft $613 million for EU antitrust violations. In 2012, former U.S. Vice President Richard Cheney, 71, underwent heart transplant surgery at a hospital in Falls Church, Va. In 2015, a Germanwings plane carrying 150 people, including German high school students, crashed in the French Alps in southern France. Everyone on board died. In 2018, student activists pushed for an end to gun violence in the March for Our Lives protests across the country less than two months after a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglass High School in Parkland, Fla., left 17 people dead. In 2023, a powerful EF4 tornado touched down in Rolling Fork, Miss., and continued on into Silver City, Miss. The tornado -- one of many in a four-day outbreak of twisters -- remained on the ground for more than an hour, killing 17 people and injuring dozens of others.
