Former 'Most Wanted' Nazi-Era Suspect Dead

A former Hungarian war crimes suspect once wanted in connection with the massacre of as many as 2,000 Serbs and Jews is dead.

News agencies say Sandor Kepiro died Saturday in Budapest. He was 97.

Kepiro once topped the most wanted list at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Los Angeles-based organization dedicated to tracking down Holocaust-era war criminals.

The center and Hungarian prosecutors said Kepiro was a member of Hungary's pro-Nazi police during World War Two. They accused him of taking part in the January 1942 massacre and helping to dump the bodies into the icy Danube River.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center's top Nazi hunter found Kepiro living in Budapest in 2006 and alerted Hungarian authorities. But a Hungarian court freed Kepiro in July of this year, citing a lack of evidence.

The ruling sparked demonstrations in Budapest and Novi Sad, where the massacre took place.

Hollywood Star Jackie Cooper Dies at 88

Actor Jackie Cooper, from the film School's Out. Hal Roach (producer), Robert F. McGowan (director), film released 22 November 1930, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation / Hal Roach Studios.

Hollywood Star Jackie Cooper Dies at 88
Wednesday, 4 May 2011

U.S. actor Jackie Cooper, who entertained millions as both a child star and an adult, has died at age 88.

Cooper's family says the actor died of old age Wednesday at a California nursing home.

Cooper rose to fame in the early 1930s as a star of the Our Gang comedy series, playing a mischievous blonde-haired boy with a perpetual crush on his schoolteacher, Miss Crabtree.

Our Gang led to bigger parts in feature films, including 1931's Skippy. It was for this role that Cooper made history, becoming, at age nine, the youngest performer ever nominated for a Best Actor Oscar.

After serving in World War II, a grown-up Cooper made a comeback on stage and as the star of two hit television series – The People's Choice, playing a small town politician, and Hennesey, where he portrayed a Navy doctor. He also made a successful return to films, playing newspaper editor Perry White in the Superman series.

Recalling the threat that directors would use to make him cry on camera as a child, Cooper named his popular autobiography Please Don't Shoot My Dog.