Milestones

By Melissa August, Val Castronovo, Matthew Cooper, Daren Fonda, Benjamin Nugent, Julie Rawe, Hope Reeves, Alain L. Sanders and Josh Tyrangiel

MARRIED. MARC ANTHONY, 31, crossover Latin pop star; to former Miss Universe DAYANARA TORRES, 25; in Las Vegas. The couple plan to settle in Puerto Rico.

SEPARATING. RUDY GIULIANI, 55, embattled Senate candidate and mayor of New York City; and DONNA HANOVER, 50, actress and Fox News correspondent; after 16 years of marriage; in New York City.

FILED SUIT. LEANN RIMES, 17, Grammy-winning country crooner; against her father, WILBUR RIMES, 47; for unspecified damages relating to the alleged misappropriation of $7 million in royalties; in Dallas.

CONVICTED. EDWIN W. EDWARDS, 72, voluble former Governor of Louisiana; on 17 counts of racketeering, conspiracy and extortion stemming from the disbursement of riverboat-casino licenses; in Baton Rouge, La. Edwards faces a possible $4.5 million fine and up to 250 years in prison.

DIED. ADAM PETTY, 19, fourth-generation member of the most celebrated family in stock-car racing; from head injuries sustained after crashing on a practice run at New Hampshire International Speedway; in Loudon, N.H.

DIED. WILLIAM BOYLE, 88, visionary banker who developed the first bank-issued credit card, the Franklin Charge Account Plan, in 1951, paving the way for Visa and MasterCard and hastening a new age of consumer spending; in Garden City, N.Y.

DIED. CRAIG STEVENS, 81, actor, born Gail Shikles Jr., who transformed the television private-eye genre as suave detective Peter Gunn in the Blake Edwards' series of the same name; of cancer; in Los Angeles.

DIED. DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS JR., 90, dashing star of 75 films and son of silent-screen legend Douglas Fairbanks Sr.; in New York City (see Eulogy, below).