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Exelon Corp. will pay $692,000 - including $151,000 to Maryland regulators - to settle alleged violations of a Justice Department agreement that had allowed the company to acquire Baltimore's Constellation Energy Group. The Justice Department said Thursday that Exelon - to not raise market prices for electricity - was required to make electricity-sale bids at or below cost from 22 of its generating plants while waiting to sell three plants in Maryland after the merger. Instead, some of its bids were above cost, the agency said.

WASHINGTON -- NATO officials now believe that allied aircraft in Kosovo inadvertently attacked two convoys containing civilians -- not just one, as officials had asserted last week -- a U.S. Air Force general acknowledged yesterday.Brig. Gen. Daniel Leaf, commander of the 31st Air Expeditionary Wing at Aviano Air Base in Italy, told reporters in Brussels, Belgium, that NATO officials think civilian vehicles made up part of two convoys outside Djakovica on April 14. Precise details of the airstrikes in western Kosovo may never be known.

Elizabeth Taylor, who died early Wednesday morning of congestive heart failure at age 79, did something no other actor ever did. At every stage of her career she became a superstar all over again. As a magical little girl, a pristine ingénue and a voluptuous woman, she created characters and images that enraptured or fascinated international audiences. In the second half of the 20th century, no other Hollywood-bred celebrity was as frequently photographed, celebrated or vilified.

It's Thursday night on the seventh floor of Hagerstown Hall dorm, and there's a party going on.Well, sort of a party.In the lounge, there are three giant bags of potato chips, two huge platters of chocolate chip cookies and a couple of cases of soft drinks. There are also 15 or so University of Maryland, College Park students in cutoffs, sweats, jeans and gym shorts eating, drinking and waiting for the start of "Seinfeld."Other dormies wander in and out. One woman dries her hair in preparation for a date that she says "will probably be totally Elainesque"; one guy slides in the door like Cosmo Kramer.

The byline of Tawanda W. Johnson, a contributing writer, was inadvertently omitted from an article about Dundalk in the June 15 real estate section.

For decades, the Orioles commanded a sweeping empire of fans - a territory larger than some European countries, stretching from southern Pennsylvania to North Carolina and including Washington, where the team operated a popular retail store. The club's games are still broadcast across most of the same region, but the Orioles now share much of it with the Washington Nationals, who are ensconced in a population-rich portion of what was once the Orioles' domain. The Nationals' arrival in 2005 created a complicated relationship in which the teams are at once neighbors, opponents on the field and, lately, bickering business partners when it comes to the regional television network they co-own but the Orioles control.

On Saturday night, I walked down to Camden Yards and bought a $10 Upper Reserved ticket. At some point, it became less $10 ticket and more like a $10 cover charge, the price for admission to a gorgeous urban gathering place and to the new Roof Deck in particular. The choice seats on the new Roof Deck at Camden Yards are first-come, first-served. So far, that seems to be working. On Saturday night, a few fans wearing Minnesota Twins gear had successful commandeered a few of the front-row stools under the overhang, and no one seemed to begrudge them them.

An obituary published Friday in The Sun for Cleopatra Franko inadvertently omitted the name of a son. She is also survived by Andrew T. Franko of Severna Park. The Sun regrets the error.

In yesterday's Live section, the byline was inadvertently left off the cover story about duckpin bowling. The article was by Sandra Crockett.The Sun regrets the error.Pub Date: 2/07/97