MILESTONES

BORN. To MELISSA ETHERIDGE, 35, Grammy Award-winning singer, and her partner JULIE CYPHER, 32: a girl, Bailey Jean; in the Los Angeles area. Cypher is the former wife of actor-singer Lou Diamond Phillips. The couple has not disclosed the method of fertilization.

RELEASED. WEBSTER HUBBELL, 49, longtime Clinton friend and former Justice Department official; from a federal halfway house; after serving more than a year in prison for tax evasion and mail fraud. Hubbell is still linked to continuing investigations of Whitewater and Democratic fund-raising activities.

SUSPENDED. ARMY SERGEANT MAJOR GENE C. MCKINNEY, 46, the service's highest-ranking enlisted officer; amid allegations that he sexually harassed a female aide. McKinney, a 28-year veteran, has denied any wrongdoing.

CONVICTED. LEMRICK NELSON JR., 21, and CHARLES PRICE, 43, of civil rights violations in the 1991 death of Yankel Rosenbaum, a Hasidic Jew who was attacked by a band of black men after a car accident in which a Hasidic motorist struck and killed a black child; in New York City. Nelson was acquitted of murder in a 1992 state trial, but Attorney General Janet Reno ordered a federal investigation.

DIED. JERZY MILEWSKI, 61, key player in the formation of Lech Walesa's Solidarity trade union, who also served as security chief upon the return of ex-communist rulers to Poland; after a long illness; in Warsaw.

DIED. WILLIAM HOMANS JR., 75, civil rights lawyer who successfully fought to abolish the death penalty in Massachusetts; in Cambridge.

DIED. MARJORIE REYNOLDS, 75, actress known for portraying Bing Crosby's love interest in Holiday Inn and William Bendix's long-suffering wife in The Life of Riley TV series; in Manhattan Beach, California.