MILESTONES

SUSPENDED. DENNIS RODMAN, 35, Chicago Bulls forward; for at least 11 games; after kicking a cameraman during a game. It could cost him $1 million in lost salary and incentives. He must also pay the maximum $25,000 fine.

CHARGED. NINA SHAHRAVAN, 23, the woman who claimed that Dallas Cowboys football star Erik Williams had raped her while teammate Michael Irvin held a gun to her head; with perjury; in Dallas. Police say Shahravan signed a statement recanting, but her lawyer says she stands by her story.

CHARGED. BRETT A. SAWYER, 38, a private detective, and LAWRENCE SHAWN SMITH, 36, a photo-lab technician; with selling crime-scene pictures taken after the murder of six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey; in Boulder, Colorado. Sawyer confessed he paid Smith $200 for the photographs, which he sold to the Globe tabloid for $5,500.

DIED. PAUL TSONGAS, 55, former U.S. Senator and presidential candidate; of pneumonia contracted after liver surgery on Jan. 10; in Boston. In 1983 Tsongas was found to have lymphoma, but it was successfully treated, and at his death there was no sign that it had returned. However, bone-marrow transplants he received contributed to liver problems, requiring the operation. A Democrat, Tsongas served two terms in the House, and was elected to the Senate from Massachusetts in 1978, but he decided to serve only one term because of his illness. With the cancer under control, he ran for President in 1992 and won the New Hampshire primary. Although he quit the race a few weeks later, his sobering message about the need for deficit reduction made its mark on the campaign and the country. Late in 1992 he co-founded the Concord Coalition, which has become an influential voice in deficit and economic policy.

DIED. ELSPETH HUXLEY, 89, prolific British author who returned repeatedly, in person and evocative prose, to the African landscapes of her childhood; in Tetbury, England. Huxley grew up in Kenya hunting game, playing polo and observing the Kikuyu servants--memories she revived to popular acclaim in The Flame Trees of Thika (1959).

DIED. SHELDON LEONARD, 89, versatile entertainer who moved effortlessly from playing lovable rogues, like Harry the Horse in Guys and Dolls, to producing popular TV fare, including the groundbreaking series I Spy, the first regular dramatic series to star a black actor, Bill Cosby; in Beverly Hills.

DIED. OSCAR AUERBACH, 92, American pathologist who examined thousands of slides of human lung tissue to document anatomical evidence of a link between smoking and the development of lung cancer; in Livingston, New Jersey.

DIED. CHARLES B. HUGGINS, 95, Canadian-born medical researcher who won the Nobel Prize in 1966 for hormone studies leading to the use of drug therapies for cancer, previously treated mostly by surgery and radiation; in Chicago.