can somebody please help me find information on beth howland (vera)such as pics,bio,....

Have you tried search engines like www.google.com (http://www.google.com) or a yahoo search or something like that?

If you're interested in Beth Howland, check out the following links --

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beth_Howland

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0398191/?ref_=nv_sr_1

http://www.alicehyatt.com/cast/howland/beth.html

Here's a recent pic from 2010. She's married to actor Charles Kimbrough.
http://d3rm69wky8vagu.cloudfront.net/photos/large/4.157392.jpg
And another year unknown:
http://cache3.asset-cache.net/gc/453156952-actor-charles-kimbrough-and-actress-beth-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=GkZZ8bf5zL1ZiijUmxa7QRTcrWwluLZiPKHUmqka2SqfE3vb654lZ6SjDnUU7RWGVzX7HFo4PYTRps%2b%2figIKjQ%3d%3d
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IF-ILH5JaTE/U4R_6Gl5k5I/AAAAAAAAQC4/WjVOqgvtAWk/s1600/charles+kimbrough+1_30867.jpg

She is married to the actor who played the stuffy news man from Murphy Brown? Cool. Beth Howland was a classically trained actress, who is very urbane and nothing like the Vera character.

Vera was the name of my grandmother, the only grandparent I really had. Norm from Cheers has a wife named Vera, and these are the only two Vera's that I know.

Another piece of trivia, in the nine seasons of the show, her "exploding straws" scene was the only part shown in all nine years of the credits.