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  • Anne Bancroft dead

    06/08/2005 5:09:31 AM PDT · by ko_kyi · 37 replies · 1,147+ views
    Associated Press ^ | June 7, 2005 | Dino Hazell
    NEW YORK - Anne Bancroft, who won the 1962 best actress Oscar as the teacher of a young Helen Keller in "The Miracle Worker" but achieved greater fame as the seductive Mrs. Robinson in "The Graduate," has died. She was 73. She died of uterine cancer on Monday at Mount Sinai Hospital, John Barlow, a spokesman for her husband, Mel Brooks, said Tuesday. Bancroft was awarded the Tony for creating the role on Broadway of poor-sighted Annie Sullivan, the teacher of the deaf and blind Keller. She repeated her portrayal in the film version. Yet despite her Academy Award and...
  • FBI says murder rate fell nearly 6 percent

    12/14/2004 8:19:12 AM PST · by Tumbleweed_Connection · 10 replies · 225+ views
    AP ^ | Dec 14, 2004
    Murders in the United States declined by nearly 6 percent in the first half of the year after rising for four straight years, the FBI reported yesterday. Almost all other crimes also declined. Overall, violent crime was down 2 percent in the first six months of the year compared with the same period of 2003, according to preliminary figures provided to the FBI by more than 10,700 state and local police agencies.