MILESTONES

SUED. STEPHEN MEYERS, half of Jacoby & Meyers, the chain legal partnership that peddles litigation like cubic zirconia; by LEONARD JACOBY, the other half; for breach of partnership, fraud and emotional distress; in Los Angeles. Jacoby wants $2 million from his partner of 23 years.

RELEASED. STACEY KOON, 44, truculent ex-cop sentenced to 30 months for his role in the live-on-tape beating of Rodney King; to a halfway house; in Rubidoux, California.

MUGGED. BARBARA MIKULSKI, 59, U.S. Senator; in front of her Baltimore home. As feisty on the street as she is on the Senate floor, Mikulski struggled with her attacker. She received a dislocated hand, he $40 and some traveler's checks.

DIED. DON CHERRY, 58, jazz musician; of liver failure; near Malaga, Spain. In the 1950s, the trumpeter experimented with "free jazz" sound and rhythm opposite the sax of Ornette Coleman. By the '60s, Cherry was a world-music pioneer, exploring influences so diverse--South Africa, Indonesia, Brazil, Bulgaria, the Middle East--he was dubbed "the musical Marco Polo."

DIED. DAVID MCLEAN, 73, actor; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles. The appropriately rugged McLean saddled up for appearances on the TV series Bonanza and Gunsmoke, as the star of the short-lived Tate--and in numerous Marlboro-cigarette spots. Ironically, he is the second "Marlboro Man" to die of lung cancer. DIED. ELENI VLACHOU, 84, publisher; in Athens. Vlachou earned a journalistic reputation with a witty political column in her father's daily Kathimerini before assuming control of the paper in 1951. She shut the paper down in the late '60s in protest against the military dictators ruling Greece. Escaping house arrest, she fled to London and campaigned against the junta.