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Coach: Ken Klock, 11th year1990 record: 10-2Returnees: Seniors Monte Spencer (G/LB), Gregg Washington (WR/FS), Kelly Sykes (TE/LB), Akil Benjamin (DB/QB), Ty Wilkins (DB/K/FL), Leonard Boyd (DL); juniors Justin Wethington (G/LB), Derek Brooks (RB/LB).Newcomers to watch: Seniors Antoine Baker (QB), Hakim Jones (DL); juniors Wade McHargue (DE/WR), Steve Coley (T), Geoff Henderson (FB), Eric Goodwin (C/DT).Coach's outlook: "We've got a five-man nucleus of good athletes, and it's a matter of how well the other guys gel around them.

If you missed out on the Melo League All-Stars when they played the Washington-based Goodman League All-Stars at Morgan State University's Hill Field House last month, you now have a chance to watch Carmelo Anthony, LeBron James, Chris Paul and others play a glorified streetball game on Sunday night. Well, that's assuming you have a computer, and since you're reading this now, that's probably a safe assumption. The Melo League All-Stars will play Team Philly, which is led by Tyreke Evans and Hakim Warrick, in a game that's being billed as the "Battle of I-95.

A person familiar with the situation says Kyle Korver is following Carlos Boozer from Utah to Chicago after agreeing to sign with the Bulls. The person spoke Friday on the condition of anonymity because the contract was not finalized The deal is reportedly for three years and about $15 million. Korver is a career 41 percent 3-point shooter who hit 59 of 110 last season, a NBA-best 53.6 percent, while averaging 7.2 points. He came off the bench in all 52 games he played in '09-10.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Two days after a car bomb killed a Shiite cleric and at least 90 others, thousands of mourners began a march from Baghdad to Najaf yesterday, as Iraqi and U.S. officials confirmed that at least eight suspects in the bombing have been detained. Warning that the investigation is in its early stages, officials said they still have little idea who carried out Friday's attack outside a Shiite shrine in the holy city of Najaf. One U.S. official also cast doubt on the Iraqi police's ability to verify whether any of the suspects had links to al-Qaida.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Asif Ali Zardari, the husband of ousted Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, was arrested yesterday in Karachi on charges of kidnapping a British businessman in April and extorting $800,000 from him.Mr. Zardari was denied bail by the Sind High Court, according to news agency reports.Mr. Zardari, a polo-playing businessman from a relatively obscure family in Sind province, where the Bhuttos are a powerful landowning clan, has emerged over the past year as Ms. Bhutto's gravest political liability.

After a courageous battle with gastric cancer, DAVID A. FRANKS was called to be with God on Thursday, February 8, 2007. Born in 1929 in Washington, DC, David was the second child of David R. and Lela Franks. He was raised and educated in Washington and graduated from Dunbar High School in 1947. In 1951 he earned a BS degree from Howard University, majoring in mathematics with a minor in physics. He earned a MS degree in mathematics from Howard University in 1952 and received a fellowship from the University of Illinois to continue his graduate studies in its doctoral program.

GREENBELT - A federal grand jury indicted a Silver Spring woman yesterday on murder charges in the death of a U.S. Park Police officer who was struck and killed Aug. 10 at the scene of an earlier fatal accident on Baltimore-Washington Parkway. Jovada P. Welch, 20, was indicted on charges of second-degree murder and related traffic offenses, including driving under the influence. She was charged in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt because the victim, Hakim Farthing, was a federal officer and the incident occurred on federal land.

Baltimore County police said today they have an arrest warrant for an 18-year-old male suspect in a double homicide last month at an Owings Mills apartment. Karl Maurice Sowers -- also known as "Six," according to authorities -- is wanted in the Oct. 1 shooting deaths of Howard Thacker Jr., 35, and his 17-year-old nephew, Dante Rodney Thacker. The bodies of the Thackers were found in their apartment in the 100 block of Village Mill Court after an apparent robbery, according to police.

WASHINGTON - Iraq's majority Shiite Muslims, victims of oppression and betrayal, are waiting in wary passivity for American and British forces to topple Saddam Hussein, but there are signs they might eventually take up arms against their would-be liberators. Representing 60 percent of Iraqis, Shiites have long been shut out of political power by Iraq's Sunni elite and repeatedly brutalized since Hussein seized power in 1979. Most are quietly eager for his regime to be destroyed, exiles say. But they remain bitter that the West refused to back their uprising against Hussein after the 1991 Persian Gulf war when then-President George Bush encouraged them to rebel, and they share a widespread Iraqi distrust of occupying powers.

As it brightens the Bowie Playhouse stage, 2nd Star's energetic production of "Oklahoma!" proves that as it nears age 70, this first Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein collaboration has lost little luster. At its 1943 opening, "Oklahoma!" was the first Broadway show to integrate songs into the narrative, changing the musical form forever. In 2nd Star's production, a cast of 37 and a crew of at least 25 deliver this American classic with gusto. Bowie Playhouse boasts an orchestra pit (a rarity in area theaters)