Nusbaum

On January 21, 2006 JUDITH "Judie" (nee Brothers) beloved wife of Gerald "Jerry" Cohen, loving mother of Lynn Fram, Mindi Leikin, Amy Nusbaum and Sherri Venick, devoted mother-in-law of Jeffrey Fram, Robert Leikin, Bruce Nusbaum and Jeffrey Venick, loving grandmother of Matthew, Lauren, Jesse, Coley, Sasha, Ethan, Zachary, Jennifer, Jill, Kori and Adam. Services at SOL LEVINSON & BROS INC., 8900 Reisterstown Rd., at Mt. Wilson Lane, on Sunday January 22 at 2 P.M. Interment Oheb Shalom Memorial Park, Berrymans Lane.

Elevator rescues happen maybe five times a year in Westminster.But the Westminster Volunteer Fire Company had a one-day record of two calls yesterday to get people out of elevators that were stuck between floors."

The seven Girl Scouts from Queen Anne's County and their chaperons trail Kirsten Schafer as she takes them into a gallery of Egyptian artifacts at the Walters Art Museum. Schafer, the museum's coordinator of children and family programs, gathers the scouts around a glass box with a human mummy preserved inside. Immediately they are fascinated, and even more so when Schafer leads them to a cat mummy. "I liked the Egyptian section, especially the mummies and hieroglyphics," says 10-year-old Megan McGill later in the tour.

Swede Lavers from Stratford, Conn., the No. 1 seed, won the $5,000 first prize in the Duckpin Professional Bowlers Association Masters Tournament held last weekend at Fair Lanes Middlesex in Essex.Mike Stinert of Middle River was named Bowler of the Year.*Becky Nusbaum of Woodsboro set a pair of world records in the Women's National Duckpin Association's recent national championship tournament at Fair Lanes Owings Mills.Nusbaum set records for seven-game and 12-game sets during the tournament, but did not win the championship.

Carroll County firefighters passed the century mark last week, but it's an honor they may not be very happy about.Firefighters from Carroll County responded to chimney fire No. 109 early yesterday. The chimney fire season started about Dec. 1.The most recent fire was at a house on Meadow Branch Road two minutes after midnight Sunday. Firefighters from Westminster and Pleasant Valley responded to the call, and were out 36 minutes.Fire companies in Carroll responded to their 100th chimney fire of the season March 8, when they were dispatched to a house on Glenville Road in York County, Pa.Officials said 102 of the fires occurred in Carroll County and seven just outside county boundaries.

Nelson LeRoy Sims III, an automotive enthusiast, died Tuesday at Maryland Shock Trauma Center of injuries sustained from a motorcycle accident. The Westminster resident was 19. Mr. Sims was born in Baltimore and grew up in Carroll County. He graduated from Francis Scott Key High School last year and took courses at the Carroll County Career and Technology Center. He worked in Bethesda as a communications technician at Vision Technologies. At an early age, Mr. Sims displayed his lifelong love of wheels.

Food service workers in Carroll schools are asking for a 7 percent raise and more fans in school kitchens.They made the request yesterday during their first meeting to negotiate a new contract with the Board of Education.This is the second of five employee groups with which the board must bargain.The board has made no salary offers, although it has made other proposals.Board officials have said they could make an offer later this week or next week, in individual meetings with the five bargaining groups.

ClarificationAn article in yesterday's Business section may have left a misleading impression about which attorney at the Baltimore firm of Weinberg & Green is accused in an Anne Arundel County lawsuit of improperly siding with one alleged client in a dispute with another.The story accurately reported that then-Weinberg attorney Stanford Hess was retained in 1992 in connection with an Anne Arundel County land development deal and that the lawsuit turns in part on a dispute over Weinberg's conduct when that venture collapsed last year.

Two Baltimore businessmen were indicted Tuesday, accused of conspiring to rig bids at Maryland tax lien auctions in the latest set of charges to develop from a sweeping multiyear federal investigation. A third defendant pleaded guilty in the case last year. According to the one-count indictment, filed in Baltimore's U.S. District Court, Harvey M. Nusbaum and his business partner, Jack W. Stollof, both in their 70s, colluded with others from April 2002 through early August 2007 to ensure that their small group of investors won the vast majority of properties by agreeing not to compete at certain tax lien auctions.

Man found in burning home was also beaten City police say a man found last week in a burning residence moments after police responded to a report of an armed person had been beaten before he died in the fire. The victim was identified Monday as Edward M. Davis, 39, but few details were available as police investigate the incident. Davis was found June 24 in the 1800 block of St. Paul St., just south of North Avenue. Police said at the time that the fire, which broke out at 6:30 p.m., was preceded by a report of an armed man in the vicinity, but officers who responded found no one. The fire was reported minutes later, and fire officials said the body was found on a burning couch.