1.  Deputy sheriffs around the state have recently joined a union, as have more than 3,000 graduate school assistants at the State University of New York.

2.  Dennes (CQ) Wilson, 20, joined the group in Paoli, Pa.

3.  Dennis Banks, founder of the American Indian Movement, will join the group in Tennessee.

4.  Dennis DesRosiers, a Toronto-based auto industry consultant, said the main reason workers in the industry joined a union today was because of incompetent management.

5.  Dennis Hendrix will step down as chairman of PanEnergy and will join Duke Energy's board.

6.  Denton said that the fund was valued at less than $10 million and that investors must put up a minimum of $250,000 to join.

7.  DeFrantz is the second declared candidate in the presidential race, joining Pal Schmitt of Hungary, another outsider.

8.  CUBA-MARTI (Hanava) _ As Cuba marks the birthday of its independence hero, Jose Marti, the young Elian Gonzalez joins the Cuban pantheon.

9.  Cuban isn't the first Internet billionaire to join the ranks of NBA ownership.

10.  Cuban officials did not question that furloughed prisoners might have joined the refugees who have seized on a new permissiveness by the Cuban government.