Teal

Two City Jail inmates were being held without bail yesterda after their botched attempt to switch places so that one could escape.The two Baltimore men -- Robert Teal and James Ray -- are friends, both 20 years old, look somewhat alike and were brought into the jail around the same time, according to a report filed by Capt. Samuel Hawkins of the jail staff.Captain Hawkins reported that "somehow, the photographs on the paperwork had been switched," said Baltimore police Sgt. John Bevilacqua, reading the Hawkins account of Friday evening's escape attempt.

A prosecutor and defense attorney went to Howard Circuit Court yesterday seeking the social services records of a 17-year-old boy who alleges that he was sexually abused by his foster father beginning in 1987.Assistant State's Attorney Shirley Ripley contends that the records will help corroborate statements by the victim in her case against Marvin Lee Teal, 44, a state administrative law judge.Meanwhile, R. David Pembroke, a Hagerstown lawyer for Mr. Teal, asked Judge Dennis Sweeney to is sue an order providing him with the boy's mental health records to help prepare for the defense for his client.

Pioneer City man found on roadside dies of severe burns A Pioneer City man died of severe burns yesterday at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, where he was taken after pedestrians found him lying on the roadside, police said. Everette R. West, 50, was discovered crawling in the grass in the 2700 block of Annapolis Road about 6 p.m. Sunday by three pedestrians walking to a liquor store. They called police, who took West to the hospital. He was pronounced dead late yesterday morning from severe burns to his upper and lower body.

One of the earliest-arriving migratory waterfowl in the upper Chesapeake area each fall is the teal. These small ducks appear in limited numbers, and consequently have not been the subject of local decoy carvers as often as the canvasback, bluebill or redhead. The rare antique decoys that have been found are up to 11 1/2 inches long and painted with distinctive blue-green wings. Some of the best examples were produced by John Holly and his son, James T. Holly, between 1850 and 1920; and by Robert F. McGaw in the 1920s and 1930s in Havre de Grace.

The San Jose Sharks won't play their first exhibition game until Sept. 13, but they are already challenging the Los Angeles Kings, Chicago Blackhawks and Philadelphia Flyers, the NHL's marketing heavyweights.Hockey fans all over North America are buying Sharks merchandise, which is, at times, in short supply."The biggest surprise to me so far is that it's selling in Canada and in markets where there are teams in all sports," says Matt Levine, the Sharks' executive vice president of business operations.

Edgar L. Green Jr., 85, ad agency co-founder Edgar L. Green Jr., co-founder of a Baltimore advertising agency, died Friday of heart disease at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. He was 85 and lived in Timonium. For nearly 35 years, Mr. Green led the Foster and Green Advertising Agency, whose clients included Mercantile Safe Deposit and Trust Co., Kiwi shoe polish, Fidelity and Deposit Co. and the Maryland Lottery. He retired in 1985. He and Franklin "Wink" Foster founded the ad agency in the late 1950s.

When she turned 13 a few months ago, Michael Teal realized that his daughter, Samantha, would soon have little time for him.And so he was among the 125 fathers, grandfathers, godfathers and uncles who escorted the young woman in their lives to the fourth annual Daddy-Daughter Date last night at Martin's Westminster, sponsored by the Westminster City Recreation Department for elementary and middle-school age girls."

Sugar high meets high fashion. Hundreds of folks crammed the North Club Level Lounge at M&T Bank Stadium recently to sample dozens of chocolate concoctions at the Chocolate Affair fund-raiser. For floral designer Carole Langrall, the Chocolate Affair also provided an opportunity to let her creative sense of style fly high. Age: "40-something, and that's all you're going to get." Residence: Paradise, a neighborhood in Catonsville Job: Owner of A Garden of Earthly Delights Artistic Floral Design Studio Self-described style: "Ridiculous.

Used to be that if you were black and lived in Baltimore, one of the few places you could fish without drawing stares or worse was here: a grassy milelong section of the Patapsco River's southern bank, from the Hanover Street Bridge to the Reedbird marshes.Robert Teal's father would bring him during the summer, and the crabs and catfish were so plentiful his arms would ache by lunchtime. Now Teal, 55, returns twice a month, fashioning wooden pallets into a pier, where he sits on a folding chair, holds a rod and pushes back bottles of Bud."

One day not long from now, planes without pilots could share the skies with commercial airliners. Equipped with infrared imaging, these flying robots could patrol the nation's borders for illegal immigrants and fly over storm-ravaged regions looking for survivors. With a digital video camera, they could spot illegal activity on street corners and spy backups and bottlenecks on roads. One local company, Hunt Valley-based AAI Corp., is poised to benefit from the emerging domestic market for unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs.