MARRIED. DENNIS FRANZ, 50, Emmy-winning, untoned-buttocks-baring star of NYPD Blue; to longtime live-in friend JOANIE ZECK, 47; in Carmel, California. The marriage is his first, her second.

CONVICTED. FRANCISCO MARTIN DURAN, 26, unemployed hotel upholsterer; of attempting to gun down President Clinton last October; in Washington. Duran faces life in prison at his June sentencing.

CONVICTED. WILLIAM ARAMONY, 67, ex-president of the United Way charity; on 25 counts stemming from the theft of more than $600,000 from his employer; in Alexandria, Virginia. Aramony claimed that the lavish vacations and apartments enjoyed by him and his various girlfriends-and paid for with United Way funds-were essential for mixing with well-heeled contributors.

DIED. JULIUS HEMPHILL, 57, jazz saxophonist and composer; of complications from diabetes; in New York City. As a soloist, Hemphill offered a steel-edged, intense tone; as a composer, he reveled in the provocative. His work for the World Saxophone Quartet featured a reedy thicket of sax sound, freely drawing on musical forms from gospel to big band to cool jazz to blues.

DIED. MARION TINSLEY, 68, math professor, world checkers champion and the first flesh-and-blood player to beat Chinook, a checkers-playing computer whose memory contains billions of positions; of cancer complications; in Humble, Texas.

DIED. PRISCILLA LANE, 77, swing-era singer and screen star; in Andover, Massachusetts. The upbeat blond was the most successful of the three performing Lane sisters. After crooning with Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians, Lane appeared in movies such as Four Daughters (1938), opposite a brooding John Garfield, and Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), with a frenetic Cary Grant.