Cairns

Perhaps at this very moment, a hungry contestant on "Survivor II: The Australian Outback" is eyeing a death adder. Or perhaps a hungry death adder is eyeing the contestant. Perhaps a contestant is stumbling over lava fields, or rappelling down a cliff, or thinking about how much he or she would like to throw host Jeff Probst over said cliff. Perhaps, but one fact is absolutely certain: Production on "Survivor II" is now officially under way in the Australian outback, and just in the nick of time.

WBFF reporter Kathleen Cairns said she must have been accompanied by the "guardian angel of journalism" when she stopped in Greektown on Monday. As the day - Clean Monday - marks the start of Lent in the Greek Orthodox calendar, the people she encountered there turned out to be in an especially welcoming mood as she was reporting a story. But Cairns and her colleagues at the Baltimore Fox affiliate always are accompanied by a kind of professional guardian angel. The station embraces a philosophy that prizes strong, smart storytelling, an approach that carefully winnows footage for the images and sounds that will perfectly enhance the stories it puts on the air. "Yeah, we get paid less," Cairns acknowledges.

COLLEGE PARK -- The score was as deceiving as a stick-fake from one of Virginia's explosive attackmen.When the Cavaliers played Princeton in the season's second game, they built a 10-0 lead before the Tigers knew what had hit them. And in the end, after the Ivy Leaguers had strung together some meaningless fourth-quarter goals, Virginia had a 12-9 victory that will be revisited many times leading up to today's rematch in the NCAA tournament final at Byrd Stadium.What exactly happened to Princeton, which was ranked No. 2 at the time but since has vaulted to the top spot?

COLLEGE PARK -- Since Princeton entered the NCAA tournament as the nation's top-ranked team, coach Bill Tierney has worried about how the Tigers would respond late in a close game.The Tigers, who have blown out opponents routinely for the past 10 weeks, delivered the answer yesterday against defending national champion Syracuse, under the pressure-packed glare of the Final Four.After allowing a six-goal lead to disappear, the Tigers regained their composure in the fourth quarter. They scored twice and survived a change of goalkeepers to edge the Orangemen, 11-9, before 27,066 at Byrd Stadium.

Julia R. Cairns, who was known as New Windsor's "unofficial historian" and spent decades gathering and preserving the history of the Carroll County village, died March 20 from complications of pneumonia at Friends House, a retirement community and nursing facility in Sandy Spring. She was 96. Julia Ann Roop, scion of an old Carroll County family, was the daughter of a real estate salesman and a homemaker. She was born one of nine at home in New Windsor, and was raised in the Carroll County community, where she spent most of her life.

Washington's WUSA and Baltimore's WBFF were the top news stations in their respective markets at the 55th Emmy Awards of the National Capital/Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the National Television Academy of Arts and Sciences. The awards ceremony was held Saturday night in Baltimore. WUSA won 11 regional Emmys, including two for Lesli Foster in the categories of best anchor and best consumer news series. Reporter Andrea McCarren won five Emmys for categories ranging from best single crime story to best serious report feature news.

Triathlon Winterroth, Cairns win 21.52-mile competition Benjamin Winterroth of Silver Spring and Hilary Cairns of Washington took home victories at TriColumbia's third annual Celebrating Heroes Sprint Triathlon on Sunday at Centennial Lake Park in Columbia. More than 1,000 endurance athletes, including both able-bodied and physically challenged athletes, participated in the race, which consisted of a 0.62-mile swim, 17.5-mile bike ride and 3.4-mile run. Winterroth, 31, won the men's division with a time of 1 hour, 20 minutes, 50 seconds, defeating the defending champion and course record holder, Anthony Van Lierop . Cairns, 42, was the top female finisher, with a time of 1:30:55.

Sophomore goalkeeper Patrick Cairns made 11 saves and held Brown scoreless for the final 8:07 as No. 5 Princeton edged the No. 10 Bears, 8-6, yesterday before 2,517 at Palmer Stadium in Princeton, N.J. Five of the past seven meetings between Princeton and Brown have been decided by two goals or fewer."

Less than 48 hours after he got the news, Joe Horgan was flying toward a little farming village in Scotland.Christmas lights twinkled back home in North Wales, Pa.Ahead, the sun was rising on the still-smoldering wreck of a U.S. jumbo jet and 270 twisted bodies.Somewhere among them was his brother-in-law, Mike Doyle of Voorhees, Pa.On Dec. 21, 1988, Pan American Flight 103 had been en route to New York from Frankfurt, Germany, when a bomb exploded in its baggage compartment.Seconds later, and 31,000 feet below, the people of Lockerbie, Scotland, saw a V-shaped fireball tumbling out of the sky, then a "rain of fire" as wings and bodies and engines fell onto the houses and fields, killing 11 villagers in addition to the 259 people on board.

Bob Shriver was the first to acknowledge that his sixth-ranked Boys' Latin boys lacrosse team was lucky to escape with a 9-8 upset yesterday over visiting and No. 3 Loyola."