Prescott City Council members voted to keep the controversial Downers Trail gate in place, but left open the option to remove it in the future.
Aug. 13, 2004
California lawmakers got one step closer to requiring that half of new homes built by 2020 would have to be powered by solar energy.
Aug. 13, 1999
The rock band KISS attended the dedication in Los Angeles for their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Aug. 13, 1984
The oldest copper mine in Arizona, the Phelps Dodge Corp.'s New Cornelia mine at Ajo, closed and laid off 500 miners.
Aug. 13, 1959
"Three Negro girls strolled back into Little Rock's Hall High School for a second day of integration there with only a slight stir from segregationists."
Aug. 13, 1934
"Deputy Sheriff George Ruffner drove to Kirkland on official business Saturday afternoon and reported to his office that Milk Creek between Kirkland and Walnut Grove was running full and was impassable."
Aug. 13, 1909
"With the burning rays of a merciless sun beating upon her, a woman of 80 years of age is wandering alone somewhere on the sweltering sands of the desert north of the San Bernardino (Calif.) mountain range."
Aug. 13, 1884
"McCann, the Tonto Basin shootist, will of course be brought to Prescott for trial."
Reader Comments
Posted: Thursday, August 13, 2009
Article comment by:
honkybrujo
Darn, for a minute there I thought they had finally caught McCain and were bringing him here for justice.
