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TODAY'S MEN'S TV HIGHLIGHTS ACC: BC vs. Georgia Tech 54, 20, ESPNUNoon Big Ten: Illinois vs. Minnesota BIGTENNoon Big East: Georgetown vs. TBA ESPNNoon Atlantic 10: Charlotte vs. Richmond NBCSPNoon Big 12Iowa State vs. Oklahoma ESPN212:30 SEC: Georgia vs. LSU 501 Conf. USA: TBA vs. Southern Miss. CBSSN1 ACC: N.C. State vs. Virginia Tech 54, 20, ESPNU2 Big East: TBA vs. Pittsburgh ESPN2 Big Ten:Michigan vs. Penn State BIGTEN2:30 Atlantic 10: Butler vs. Dayton NBCSP2:30 Big 12: Kansas vs. TBA ESPN23 SEC: TBA vs. Tennessee 503:30 Conference USA: TBA vs. UTEP CBSSN3:30 Big Ten: Illinois vs. Minnesota BIGTEN6:30 Big Ten: Nebraska vs. Purdue ESPN26:30 Atlantic 10: Saint Joseph's vs. Xavier NBCSP6:30 ACC: Maryland vs. Wake Forest 54, 20, ESPNU7 Conference USA: Memphis vs. TBA CBSSN7 Big East: Louisville vs. TBA ESPN7 Big 12: Kansas State vs. TBA MASN27 B. West: Pacific vs. UC San. Barb.

Sir Freddie Laker, 83, who changed the face of air travel with his low-cost trans-Atlantic Skytrain service that challenged the industry giants in the 1970s, died Thursday of heart problems in Hollywood, Fla. He pioneered the concept of cheap fares for the masses, and although his Skytrain venture collapsed in 1982, he laid the foundations for the low-cost carriers that proliferate today. He set up the innovative Skytrain service in 1977, giving passengers the chance to fly across the Atlantic as easily as catching a train.

Hurricane forecasters at Colorado State University are calling for a below-average hurricane season this year, with 10 expected named storms and about a one in four chance a major hurricane will hit the East Coast. The Tropical Meteorology Project released its main forecast for the year Wednesday, in advance of the June 1 start to the Atlantic hurricane season. In a typical year, the East Coast stands a 31 percent chance of being struck by a major hurricane. The median number of named storms over the past century is 12. The project's meteorologists wrote that unusually cool waters in the Atlantic and the potential for a developing El Nino global weather pattern contributed to the forecast.

The idea started as coffee-room grousing inside a dying company. As the old Albert Gunther & Co. ground toward dissolution last year, the seeds were sown for the company that would try to pick up where the 85-year-old hardware supplier left off.Recession or no -- and in the construction business, the recession is still on, in earnest -- the crop came to harvest this week, as a group of one-time Gunther employees and partners opened Atlantic Builder's Supply...

A bankruptcy lawyer pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Baltimore yesterday to embezzling $350,000 from the estate of a company over a 12-year period.Melvin C. Paul, 62, admitted that he stole the money from the account of the former Atlantic International Marketing Corp. of Baltimore, which leased and sold construction trailers and office complexes before it declared bankruptcy under Chapter 7 in December 1980.U.S. Attorney Richard D. Bennett said this was the second major federal bankruptcy fraud case prosecuted in Maryland this year.

Tropical Storm Michael, the 13th named storm of the hurricane season, has formed in the Atlantic as of 11 a.m. Tuesday. The storm poses no threat to land at the moment. Tropical Storm Leslie, meanwhile, is struggling to Michael's west but could still become a hurricane that could affect Bermuda. Michael had 40 mph winds as of Tuesday morning, and was 1,200 miles southwest of the Azores, in the middle of the ocean. The storm is expected to move slowly northward but isn't much of a concern.

Charles Allan Herndon Jr., a pioneering broadcaster whose evening weather forecasts were a fixture of 1950s and 1960s Baltimore television, has died of complications from Alzheimer's disease. Mr. Herndon died Tuesday at Oak Crest Care Center in Parkville. He was 78. In a career that spanned more than 30 years in radio and television - and the law - Mr. Herndon was best known for the nightly weather appearances on WBAL-TV that were sponsored by the Atlantic Refining Co. For the broadcasts, he dressed in a tan-colored Atlantic service station attendant's uniform, bow tie and black-visored cap. He always ended the weather segment with a crisp salute and, looking directly into the camera, uttered the line that has since passed into local broadcasting history: "Atlantic.