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Fox-45 News At Ten reporter Kathleen Cairns was treated and released from a hospital Tuesday after, Howard County police say, she caused a head-on collision on Marriottsville Road that injured two others. According to police, Cairns, 36, of Columbia, was driving her Honda Accord too fast in wet conditions around a curve when she crossed the center line and struck a Mazda 626 head-on. The Mazda's driver was Rudolph Dillard, 54, of Randallstown. Dillard was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, where he was treated and released Tuesday.

The mother-in-law of a Baltimore police officer involved in a controversial shooting at Lexington Market on Saturday was arrested yesterday and charged with assaulting a television reporter who was seeking an interview.Margarita Ekegbu of the 1200 block of E. Belvedere Ave. was charged with aggravated assault. Police said she is alleged to have thrown a bleach mixture into the face of Kathleen Cairns, a reporter for WBFF-TV, a Fox affiliate.Police said Cairns knocked on the door of Ekegbu's home about 12:15 p.m. It was answered by a woman who allegedly threw liquid containing bleach at Cairns.

COLLEGE PARK -- Call him the silent partner.While the Princeton attack trio of Jesse Hubbard, Jon Hess and Chris Massey light up the scoreboard and coach Bill Tierney receives most of the accolades, assistant David Metzbower stands unnoticed.Metzbower, a Loyola High School graduate, is the designer of possibly the top offensive unit in the nation. The attack group combined for 10 goals and eight assists against Maryland.Before Metzbower joined the Tigers in 1990, the school record for goals in a season was 175. In eight seasons under him, Princeton has surpassed that mark each time, totaling 213 goals in 15 games this year.

COLLEGE PARK -- Princeton coach Bill Tierney took aside his goalie, Patrick Cairns, on Friday night after the Final Four banquet and gave him not a piece of his mind, but peace of mind.Would Tierney consider yanking Cairns if things weren't going right, like he did in last year's semifinals and final? Senior Pancho Gustein came in and restored order, and Princeton went on to win the championship.No, Tierney would not do that to Cairns this time, not to a senior. When Duke scored five straight goals in the first half to tie it at 6, Tierney never considered removing the former Boys' Latin star.

CollegeBowling Green: Announced sophomore C Jake Holmes has left basketball team.Pro footballPatriots: Placed CB Vernon Lewis on injured reserve. Signed DT Chad Eaton. Waived DE Troy Barnett.Steelers: Signed TE John Farquhar to the active roster; re-signed WR Chris George to the practice squad.Pro hockeyLightning: Recalled C Paul Brousseau from AHL Adirondack. Reassigned RW Marian Kacir to ECHL Wheeling.Panthers: Recalled RW Jason Podollan from AHL Carolina.Rangers: Sent D Eric Cairns and F Silvain Blouin to AHL Binghamton.

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.

COLLEGE PARK -- When two goalkeepers battle it out for the starting job, it's usually called a controversy. At Princeton, it's referred to as a goalkeeping agreement.Patrick Cairns and Pancho Gutstein have rotated in and out of goal for the top-ranked Tigers all season. But the situation became a little cloudier yesterday.Princeton coach Bill Tierney pulled Cairns with 12: 04 remaining in the fourth quarter after Syracuse came back from a six-goal deficit to tie the game at 9. Gutstein entered the game and made four saves while shutting out the Orangemen.

One would think that, after spending two seasons in the net at Princeton, junior Pat Cairns would feel secure as the Tigers' top goalkeeper.Think again.For starters, Princeton carries four goalies on its roster. And coach Bill Tierney is not afraid to use them, especially senior Pancho Gutstein, a co-captain as well as the guy Cairns originally beat out a year ago. Second, Cairns replaced Scott Bacigalupo, the three-time All-American who led Princeton to two national championships before graduating in 1994 as one of the best ever in the NCAA.

ARLINGTON, Va. -- Burdened by seven years of pain and frustration, friends and relatives of the 270 people who died when Pan Am Flight 103 was blown apart over Lockerbie, Scotland, huddled in the rain at Arlington National Cemetery yesterday for the unveiling of a Scottish memorial cairn.Dedicating a tower-shaped monument built from 270 pink sandstones, one for each person killed, President Clinton promised that the United States had not forgotten the victims and would not relent until the bombers had paid for their crimes.