DEXTER, Mo. -- Longtime newsman Barney Miller, 81, of Dexter died Friday, Jan. 11, 2002, at his home. He was born July 14, 1920, in Lutesville, Mo., son of Robert and Elizabeth Trotter Miller.

Steve Landesberg might have been best known for his role as the intellectual and sometimes annoying Detective Sgt. Arthur Dietrich on the long-running 1970s cop comedy "Barney Miller." But younger ...