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Fanne Foxe, the exotic dancer whose relationship with Rep. Wilbur Mills (D-Ark.) ended his career in the 1970s, died earlier this month at the age of 84, The Washington Post reported.

Larry Krebs, 81, one of Washington's last old-school gumshoe newshounds who was perhaps best known for being the only cameraman at the Tidal Basin the night a powerful congressman and a striptease artist landed in hot water, died Feb. 11 at Sibley Memorial Hospital of complications after a stroke. He was a Washington resident. [snip] One of the most infamous stories he broke was the 1974 Tidal Basin scandal, in which an intoxicated Rep. Wilbur D. Mills (D-Ark.), driving his Lincoln Continental, was pulled over by a U.S. Park Police officer. An exotic dancer named Fanne Foxe jumped out of...

WASHINGTON — A Washington, D.C., journalist whose work included the story of the 1974 traffic stop of then-Arkansas U.S. Rep. Wilbur Mills and a stripper has died. Larry Krebs spent four decades covering the streets of the nation's capital. Krebs began as a television news cameraman and later became a radio reporter. Krebs' specialty was covering police and firefighters. His biggest scoop came when authorities stopped a car for speeding near the Tidal Basin. Mills and a striptease artist Fanne Foxe were inside the vehicle, and Foxe jumped into the Tidal Basin. Mills' office initially denied the incident happened,...