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On December 16, 2005, PAUL JOHN LIOI, retired and highly decorated Baltimore City Police Officer; beloved husband of Maria (nee Gregorat) loving father of Raymond Lioi, Jean Welsh and Dan Lioi. Devoted step-father of Sandra Villasuso. Devoted father-in-law of Valarie Lioi, Brett Welsh and Phyllis Lioi. Devoted brother of Andrew and Gerard Lioi and the late Catherine Mancuso, the late Theresa Jankowski and the late John Lioi. Also survived by 10 grandchildren. Viewing will be held Tuesday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. at the Leonard J. Ruck Inc. Funeral Home, 5305 Harford Rd. (at Echodale)

NATIONAL S. Dakota to ban abortion South Dakota lawmakers approved a ban on nearly all abortions, setting up an assault on Roe v. Wade at a time when some activists see the U.S. Supreme Court as more willing than ever to overturn the 33-year-old decision. pg 1a Waiting for a big bang Astronomers around the world are pointing their telescopes toward the expected appearance of a new supernova, the explosion of a massive and very distant star. pg 5a WORLD Iraq leaders extend curfew Iraqi political and religious leaders struggled to pull the nation back from the brink of sectarian civil war, calling for peace and extending a daytime curfew meant to reduce violence between Shiite and Sunni Muslims that has left more than 150 people dead this week.

On October 27, 2003, JOHN MANCUSO, devoted father of Iris Holthaus and her husband Joseph Holthaus. Loving grandfather of Alicia Dunnigan, Stacey Crawford and great grandfather of Kayla Tyler. Services are to be held privatley with the family.

Lindsey Vonn, whose training was limited by a severely bruised shin, wins the downhill in Vancouver by more than half a second ahead of silver medalist and American teammate Julia Mancuso. "This is everything I've wanted and hoped for," Vonn said. "I gave up everything for this." PG 3

ORAVILLE -- It took more than 60 years, but the revenuers finally caught up with John M. Morgan Sr.The first time they chased him through the woods of St. Mary's County, he was a boy during Prohibition making a few dollars tending a bootlegger's still. He was nimble afoot in those days, and they never got him.But when he returned home to Oraville from breakfast on the morning of Dec. 29, Mr. Morgan, now 77, had nowhere to run. State and county officers surrounded his car and placed him under arrest.

Speed skating CHAD HEDRICK TV: NBC, 8 p.m.-midnight -- Chad Hedrick, who came to Turin with a chance to become the first man in speed skating to win five gold medals in a single Olympics since Eric Heiden, is still trying to pick up his second. He certainly shouldn't be disappointed if he leaves with only two. Expectations, the media's and his own, were unrealistic considering how he'd skated here. He won his first event, the 5,000 meters, but he never really had much of a chance in the 1,000.

"Fatal Exposure," which airs at 9 tonight on cable's USA channel, is a fatality of a made-for-TV movie.The would-be thriller stars Mare Winningham as Jamie Hurd, a divorced mother of two who stumbles upon a Chicago gangland slaying.The film has: corrupt police who may or may not be mob-connected, a hit man, and Nick Mancuso as the hero who tells Hurd her house has wood rot.Not one scene seems to follow logically from the one before. The film has brain rot.

On June 13, 2005, JAMES F., beloved husband of 53 years to Elizabeth E. (nee Schilling), devoted father of Carol A. Eckels and her husband Timothy and James D. Buskirk, loving grandfather of Christopher M., and Jennifer E. Eckels, dear brother of Shirley Mueller, Betty Blimline and Gloria Mancuso, brother-in-law of Marlene Oliver, Lena Schilling and Dr. Lawrence Aronson. Also survived by many nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held at the E. F Lassahn Funeral Home, (Kingsville)

WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department has decided not to prosecute two Pentagon officials over the release of information from Linda Tripp's personnel file, officials said yesterday. Justice notified Pentagon Deputy Inspector General Donald Mancuso last week that it would take no action against Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon and his former deputy, Clifford Bernath, for possible violations of the federal Privacy Act, Mancuso told the Senate Armed Services Committee. Tripp, a Columbia resident, spurred the impeachment of President Clinton with her secret taping of Monica Lewinsky.

SESTRIERE, Italy -- The wind may not be blowing America's way yet in the Olympic alpine events, but it's definitely blowing. With 3 1/2 events completed in the mountains, the United States has one medal, Ted Ligety's gold in combined, with possibly more wind chill to come. Severe winter weather turned Wednesday's women's combined event upside down. High winds forced the postponement of the shortened downhill in San Sicario Fraiteve after one racer, Croatia's Nika Fleiss, took off on a jump and almost got flipped upside down by a gust.