HAMPTON, Virginia - Officials voice three men are hospitalized after an overnight shooting in a dormitory at Hampton University in Virginia. Police reveal the think it likely is an 18-year-old Richmond gink who attempt a 62-year-old Hampton cover and a 43-year-old Hampton guy and then turned the gun on himself. No students were injured. School spokeswoman Yuri Rodgers says that control into the shooter is a ancient student, and that one sacrificial lamb is the sunset foreman of Harkness Hall.
Officials do not cognizant of the stimulation for the shooting, reported around 1 a.m. All students, skill and pole were notified about the situation via primer message and e-mail and the school remains on lockdown this matutinal while police investigate.
Hampton University is a own mould with about 5,700 students.
Actress Beatrice (Bea) Arthur, who starred in the in vogue Maude and Golden Girls TV series, has died at seniority 86, according to her family. The gravelly-voiced Thespian won Emmys for her roles in both series, which were also critically acclaimed. Arthur died peacefully at her Los Angeles national with her house at her side, forefathers spokesman Dan Watt said. She had cancer, Watt said, but gave no other details. "She was a twinkling and subtle woman," said Watt, who was Arthur's belittling subsidiary for six years.
Arthur was born Bernice Frankel to Philip and Rebecca Frankel in New York City on May 13, 1922. The household soon moved to Maryland and Arthur attended college in Blackstone, Va., fit a medical technologist for a few years.
In the old 1940s, Arthur was living in New York City, where she was a fellow of an off-Broadway troupe at the Cherry Lane Theatre. She had a curtailed association to screenwriter Robert Alan Aurthur, and a account of his final honour supplied Beatrice Arthur's level name. In 1950, she married again, to Broadway actor and later Tony-winning conductor Gene Saks. They divorced in 1978. Arthur soon carved out a livelihood on stage, appearing in the 1954 off-Broadway premiere of Marc Blitzstein's English-language suiting of Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera and captivating a impersonation in the 1964 premiere of Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway.
Arthur captured a Tony Award in 1966 for her portrayal of Vera Charles in Mame, reprising the post for the 1974 take starring Lucille Ball. In 1999, Arthur memorably credited three grass roots for influencing her career: "Sid Caesar taught me the outrageous; [method acting guru] Lee Strasberg taught me what I call up reality; and [singer and actress] Lotte Lenya, whom I adored, taught me economy." Appearance in 'All in the Family' leads to spinoff Arthur cardinal appeared on TV in the feature comedy series All in the Family as Edith Bunker's loudly outspoken, dispassionate cousin Maude Findlay. In 1972, Arthur took that rune to a spinoff series, Maude. Maude lived in an affluent community with her hoard Walter (Bill Macy) and divorced daughter Carol (Adrienne Barbeau).
The groundbreaking show touched on many tabu topics including abortion and sexuality. Arthur's position garnered several Emmy and Golden Globe nominations, including her Emmy be victorious in 1977 for important part actress in a comedy series. In a 2008 interview, Arthur said she was blessed to be discovered by TV after a dream of condition career. "I was already 50 years old.
I had done so much off-Broadway, on Broadway, but they said, 'Who is that girl? Let's give her her own series,"' Arthur noted. Garners another Emmy on 'Golden Girls' Arthur then moved onto another hit series, The Golden Girls,in 1985, portraying Dorothy Zbornak, a divorced alternative schoolteacher living in a Miami, Fla., billet owned by Blanche Devereaux (Rue McClanahan). Dorothy's mother, Sophia Petrillo (Estelle Getty), and the widow Rose Nylund (Betty White) were Dorothy's housemates. The show remained a top-drawer 10 ratings device for six seasons, collecting 10 Emmys, including two as best comedy series and distinctive awards for each of the stars, one for Arthur in 1988.
After seven years, Arthur definite to retreat the show. After the series, she appeared in boarder spots on TV, showing up as Larry David's mummy on Curb Your Enthusiasm. She returned to Broadway in 2002, starring in Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends, a store of stories and songs based on her life. Her talkie credits involve That Kind of Woman (1959), Lovers and Other Strangers (1970), Mel Brooks' The History of the World: Part I (1981) and For Better or Worse (1995).
Arthur was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame in 2008.
