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As usual, Fashion Week was made up of the good, the bad and the ugly. Here's what we thought: Biggest celebrity splash Sure, stunners like Elizabeth Hurley, Iman and Angie Harmon packed the front rows of fashion shows all week. However, the celeb who caused the biggest stir among attendees and photographers turned out to be none other than Monica Lewinsky. The infamous White House intern was spotted in the front rows of the Jill Stuart and Sephora shows on Thursday, drawing an endless stream of photographers and gawkers.

Models strutted down the runway, showing off the latest fashions in vintage and contemporary clothes. But the event Sunday at the Hippodrome Theatre was no ordinary fashion show. It was a fundraiser featuring girls ages 5 to 12 years old from across the Baltimore region. They modeled the outfits of the popular American Girl dolls, who represent historical and modern characters, such as Kaya, a member of the Nez Perce Indian tribe, and Addy, who escaped slavery during the Civil War. Accompanying the girls onstage were matching dolls.

Isis King is usually fielding questions about being the first transgender contestant named as a finalist on "America's Next Top Model," the time she spent as a homeless teen or even about her latest hairstyle — she recently switched to a fire-engine red hairdo. Somehow, the heart-wrenching story about the death of her baby sister, Channel, gets lost in the shuffle. One-year-old Channel died in 1992 after being born with her organs on the outside of her body. She required a number of medical procedures during her short life, King explained.

More than 200 girls and their American Girl dolls hit the runway at Towson Town Center on Saturday, Jan. 28. The walk was short and the line was long, but there were smiles all around. "I got to tell the guy what I liked," said Savannah Shafer, 7, of Lutherville, with her look-alike American Girl doll after walking the runway. "I wasn't nervous," she said, smiling. "I like playing with my American Girl online. " All of the girls participating had a chance of being selected for the American Girl Fashion Show, to be held March 24 and 25 at the Hippodrome Theater.

Residents curious about how a runway expansion at Carroll County Regional Airport may affect their sleep patterns will have a chance to find out next month.Neighbors requested a public meeting with county officials to hear the latest about the plans, according to county Department General Services Director J. Michael Evans.A date has not been set, but the meeting probably will be in early November, he said yesterday. Officials want to finish drawing the latest plans on an aerial photograph before the meeting, he said.

I'm thinking of changing my hairstyle and have been looking through magazines to get ideas. All I find are crazy looks that no woman I know would wear in real life. I makes me mad. Why do designers do this?For an answer I checked with Manhattan's Bumble & Bumble, hairstylists who have done shows for designers such as Miuccia Prada, Gianni Versace and Alexander McQueen. Owner Michael Gordon urges you to bear in mind that what you see on the runway (and in the fashion pages) are uncut hairstyles.

Residents of Linthicum, Ferndale and Severn may be hearing airplane noises at unusual times over the weekend as evening flight patterns change at Baltimore-Washington International Airport to accommodate runway construction.Weather permitting, work to extend Runway 10/28 will force the closing of that runway and of Runway 15R/33L from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Saturday and Sunday nights. Flights will be diverted to Runway 4/22.The next weekend closings are tentatively scheduled for mid-June. The work is expected to be completed in November, and flight patterns will be intermittently affected until then.

Residents of Glen Burnie, Linthicum, Millersville and Crownsville may notice a shift in aircraft noise patterns during the next two months because of construction work on a runway at Baltimore-Washington International Airport.Routine maintenance on Runway 15R/33L, which began Aug. 15, is expected to take 70 days. It will require alternating full and partial closings of the runway.During the five phases of construction, which include pavement work, minor flight delays and changes in air traffic patterns will occur.

Residents of Linthicum, Ferndale, Severn and Glen Burnie may notice unusual aircraft noise during the next two weekends as construction closes two major jet runways at Baltimore-Washington International Airport.As part of a project to extend Runway 10/28 and perform routine maintenance, Runway 10/28 will be closed from 10 p.m. today until 7 a.m. Monday.Runway 10/28 and Runway 15R/33L will both close from 10 p.m. until 7 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday, and June 11 and 12.Aircraft will be diverted to other runways during the closures.

A twin engine cargo plane veered off a runway at Baltimore-Washington International Airport yesterday after it blew four tires while landing, according to an airport spokeswoman.The pilot and co-pilot of the Zantop Convair 580 aircraft were uninjured, said Carol T. Riley, a BWI spokeswoman.Ms. Riley said that the plane, operated by Zantop International Airlines out of Ypsilanti, Mich., was landing at BWI about 6:30 a.m. when some problems developed with the hydraulic system in the landing gears.

A small Gulfstream private jet overshot a runway Monday night at Baltimore-Washington Thurgood Marshall International Airport, causing no injuries to the two people aboard and no delays to commercial flights. Jonathan Dean, a spokesman for the Maryland Aviation Administration, said the incident occurred shortly before 7 p.m. on the general aviation runway, which is not used by much larger, commercial planes. Dean said the Gulfstream came to a stop in grass and as of 7:30 p.m. was stuck, with some damage to its landing gear.

What a finale!  The very first 'ANTM' all-star was named, but not without drama and a last minute twist. But first there were plenty of photo shoots, a CoverGirl commercial and one theatrical runway show.  So who won the whole shebang? It may not be who you think ... SPOILERS AHEAD! Easy, breezy, beautiful At the house, Allison, Lisa and Angelea talk about how they've all had to overcome obstacles to be where they are now. Lisa with her abusive childhood, Allison with her father dying of cancer in the past year and Angelea growing up in a poor neighborhood with very little.

LUSBY — Maryland State Police say two people have been injured in a small plane crash at the end of a runway at a Calvert County airport. Trooper First Class E. West of the Prince Frederick barracks says the plane crashed around 6:30 p.m. Sunday at an airport at the Chesapeake Ranch Estates in Lusby. Police say the injuries were not life threatening. The local residents aboard were flying back from Illinois and overshot the runway. The Federal Aviation Administration is going to investigate.

As years go, it hasn't been a great one for Jimmie Johnson. He still has a fighting chance to claim his unprecedented sixth consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup title, but that's strictly an optimistic spin. Johnson's shot at winning the title would rely on multiple strokes of luck, like all of the other top contenders piling into each other at the start of a race. Johnson still engages in some Monday morning quarterbacking on what could have been, but he's also wise enough to take a step back and gather some realistic perspective.

This Pug could be a model. Oh wait -- he sort of is! He's almost on the runway. The dog tried to steal the show the other day at the Maria Grachvogel Spring/Summer 2012 collection show during London Fashion Week. He looks very stylish to me.  

Residents of Linthicum, Ferndale and other communities near Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport must endure about another month of unusually loud nights as work continues on a runway repaving project, a BWI spokesman said. The airport will periodically close its two busiest runways between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. until the project is completed in mid-October, BWI spokesman Jonathan Dean said. On those nights it will shift traffic to the normally little-used runway 422, which will mean increased noise for communities toward the northeast of the airport, Dean said.

To accommodate corporate jets migrating away from major airports to regional ones, Carroll County commissioners adopted a contentious plan yesterday to build a new, expanded runway at the Carroll County Regional Airport in Westminster. The $56 million plan calls for relocating and extending the airport's main runway, giving larger jets the necessary space to take off with full tanks of fuel and more passengers. The plan would rebuild the 5,100-foot runway 250 feet west and 600 feet north of its present location.

Christian Siriano's days of making sacrifices in the name of fashion may be coming to an end now that he has been named the top designer of this season's Project Runway. In last night's finale, the outspoken 22-year-old Annapolisnative - who works out of a cramped New York apartment and does without a real bed (all to afford more clothes) - took home the $100,000 prize to start his own fashion line. Siriano, a graduate of the Baltimore School for the Arts and the fan favorite on the Bravo series, beat out former Ralph Lauren designer Jillian Lewis and Los Angeles drape artist RamiKashou for the final prize.

The two major commercial runways at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport are scheduled re-open early Monday morning, officials said Sunday. The two runways have been closed since Friday night for a 54-hour repavement project that's scheduled to end at 5 a.m. Monday, said spokesman Jonathan Dean. The closings are the first of its kind in more than two decades. Over the weekend, Dean said there have been "intermittent" flight delays. Travelers should expect some more delays until Monday morning.

If the weather holds, Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport this weekend will close its two busiest runways for about 54 hours, relying on a shorter, little-used one as it repaves a critical intersection. Airport officials said passengers and travelers should expect flight delays throughout the weekend as it completes the maintenance project — the first such closing in more than two decades. A spokesperson for Southwest Airlines said it is advising customers to expect delays on Sunday.