The housing bureau's arrests were also down, with 80 compared with 377 a year ago.
A Rotherham win is a top priced 4-1 with Bet365 compared with only 11-4 with Ladbrokes.
The US exchanges also saw a sharp decline in flotations with 27, compared with 64 in the same period a year earlier.
In terms of declared donations, the Conservatives far outstripped Labour with £6.7m compared with the opposition's £4.4m.
Among those cities with more murders in the first six months of 2000 were New York, with 344, compared with 335 in the first half of 1999; Los Angeles, with 247, up from 196; Dallas, with 115, compared with 88, and New Orleans with 117, up from 86.
Fernando González, the Chilean who lost to Juan Carlos Ferrero in five sets in the 2003 quarter-final, could be overpriced at 40-1 with Bet365 compared to 25-1 with Stan James.
(Obergurgl just pips Hochgurgl with 56km compared with Hochgurgl's 54km).
By last year, the county had the highest percentage of Hispanic people of any county in Iowa, with 19.2, compared with less than 4percentt statewide.
(A) Interaction of OsRap2.6 with RACK1A compared with the mCherry.
There were three more murders reported last year, with 110 compared with 107 the previous year.
In Midlothian the SNP's Owen George Thompson beat Labour's Kenny Young with 24,453 compared with 14,594.
