Van Bavel

For one month each year, Adam Van Bavel doesn't shave his mustache. He does this to not only get strange looks, but to also help kids in need. "My mustache is a gleaming example of how bad you can look in the name of good," Van Bavel said. The 33-year-old Pigtown resident and Baltimore native has volunteered at Mustaches for Kids for the past four years, and was named Baltimore's "Best Do-Gooder" by the City Paper readers' poll. Members of Mustaches for Kids grow mustaches for one month and raise money to benefit Baltimore City public schools.

For one month each year, Adam Van Bavel doesn't shave his mustache. He does this to not only get strange looks, but to also help kids in need. "My mustache is a gleaming example of how bad you can look in the name of good," Van Bavel said. The 33-year-old Pigtown resident and Baltimore native has volunteered at Mustaches for Kids for the past four years, and was named Baltimore's "Best Do-Gooder" by the City Paper readers' poll. Members of Mustaches for Kids grow mustaches for one month and raise money to benefit Baltimore City public schools.

On April 17, 2004 RICHARD J. B. HARBIN, beloved husband of Dorothy J. Harbin (nee Jamison) dear father of Lisa B. Van Bavel, dear father-in-law of Mark A. Van Bavel, dear grandfather of Adam B. Van Bavel, Andrew M. Smith, Kim and Christopher Van Bavel, brother of Frank Harbin, Corinne (Chummy) Harbin, Mary Jane Bradley and Edwin Harbin. Also survived by many loving nieces, nephews and close friends. Friends may call at the family owned Mitchell-Wiedefeld Funeral Home, Inc., 6500 York Rd. (at Overbrook)

Howard Tourism names Van Bavel Erin Van Bavel is the new group sales and marketing manager for Howard County Tourism. She will work to promote the county as a premier destination for business and group travel, targeting association, meeting, sports and group tour business. Van Bavel was director of communications for the Annapolis and Anne Arundel County Conference and Visitors Bureau and, most recently, regional sales representative for Simply Funds Inc., a Maryland fundraising company.

An Annapolis man, who was free for months while waiting to learn if murder charges against him would go to a trial or be dismissed, was arrested yesterday when he arrived in court for an unrelated drug case that had been postponed. Terrence Tolbert, who is charged in the high-profile 2002 carjacking-murder of a businessman two blocks from the State House in Annapolis, was taken into custody in an Anne Arundel County Circuit courtroom. The arrest came as county prosecutors were waiting for another judge to respond to their request to jail Tolbert in the newly revived murder case, according to a spokeswoman for prosecutors.

Howard Tourism names Van Bavel Erin Van Bavel is the new group sales and marketing manager for Howard County Tourism. She will work to promote the county as a premier destination for business and group travel, targeting association, meeting, sports and group tour business. Van Bavel was director of communications for the Annapolis and Anne Arundel County Conference and Visitors Bureau and, most recently, regional sales representative for Simply Funds Inc., a Maryland fundraising company.

Tonya Lucas' lawyer squared off with a veteran homicide detective yesterday to produce one of the more heated exchanges in the East Baltimore woman's arson and murder trial.At one point during defense lawyer Mark A. Van Bavel's cross-examination of Detective Sgt. Gary Childs, no fewer than four people -- the judge, the witness and lawyers for the two sides -- were talking at once.Finally, Judge Robert I. H. Hammerman commanded, "Sit down, Mr. Van Bavel," and the situation quieted down.But not for long.

The lawyer for Eric Tirado, one of two men charged with killing a state trooper last year, has presented papers in Howard County Circuit Court alleging that Tirado's co-defendant talked about slaying a police officer.Mark Van Bavel, Tirado's public defender, told the court yesterday that a third man who was charged in the slaying of Cpl. Theodore D. Wolf has stated that the co-defendant, Francisco Rodriguez, held a gun and talked about killing someone an hour before Wolf was shot."He [Francisco Rodriguez]

The Howard County state's attorney filed legal papers yesterday asking New York correctional officials to return Eric Tirado to Maryland to stand trial in connection with the March 29 fatal shooting of state police Cpl. Theodore D. Wolf near Jessup.Deputy State's Attorney Dwight S. Thompson said Maryland intends to seek the death penalty for both Tirado, 26, and his co-defendant, Francisco Rodriguez, 20.Mr. Thompson said New York prison officials were asked to give Maryland temporary custody of Tirado so that he can be tried for the murder of Corporal Wolf.

The lawyer for a defendant linked to last year's killing of state trooper Ted Wolf revealed the existence of witness statements last weekthat allegedly implicate a co-defendant.Prosecutors have repeatedly pointed to Eric Tirado as the trigger man in the killing of Cpl. Theodore D. Wolf, who was shot March 29, 1990, during a traffic stop in Jessup. However, witness statements presented in court reportedly suggest that co-defendant Francisco Rodriguez may have fired the gun.Tirado's defense team presented the statements during two days ofmotions hearings last week in preparation for the June 3 trial.

Though several ticking clocks continually mark the minutes and chime the hours at the Antique Clock and Watch Shop in Ellicott City, this crowded, parts-strewn shop seems like a place that time has forgotten. Owner Charles Sink has no computers in the space he shares with his English Lab, Princess. He doesn't have a cash register and accepts only cash for his work. But he offers customers old-fashioned attention to detail and a skill set that is as anachronistic as rotary telephones and rabbit ears on televisions - the ability to repair old-fashioned clocks and watches, the ones that rely on balance wheels and pendulums, not batteries.

A Pikesville man was convicted yesterday of first-degree murder in the killing of a 15-year-old girl whose body was then set on fire in Gwynnvale Park last year. Jason T. Richards of the 7400 block of Kathydale Road also was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder in the death of Quartrina K. Johnson of Woodlawn, and of conspiracy to commit murder and second-degree rape; those charges were for crimes committed against Quartrina's 14-year-old foster sister. Richards, 25, stood expressionless in Baltimore County Circuit Court after the jury read its verdict.

Ending a 2 1/2 -year legal seesaw, an Anne Arundel County judge sentenced Terrence Tolbert yesterday to life in prison without parole for the carjacking-slaying of an Annapolis businessman outside his Historic District home. Tolbert, 22, appeared expressionless as Circuit Judge Ronald A. Silkworth told a packed courtroom that just as the victim, Straughan Lee Griffin, epitomized what is right in society, Tolbert embodied what's wrong. "Mr. Tolbert, one solace to you is that you still will have a life.

Ending a 2 1/2 -year legal seesaw, an Anne Arundel County judge yesterday sentenced Terrence Tolbert to life in prison without parole for the notorious carjacking-slaying of an Annapolis businessman outside his Historic District home. Tolbert, 22, appeared expressionless as Circuit Judge Ronald A. Silkworth told a packed courtroom that just as the victim, Straughan Lee Griffin, epitomized what is right in society, Tolbert embodied what's wrong. "Mr. Tolbert, one solace to you is that you still will have a life.

Describing a quick and chilling homicide in Annapolis' Historic District, two police officers testified yesterday that murder-carjacking suspect Terrence Tolbert told them that Straughan Lee Griffin had no opportunity to react before he was shot point-blank and run over with his own Jeep in front of his home. "I said, `Did Mr. Griffin say anything?' and he said, `No, he didn't get a chance to say anything,'" Maryland State Police Cpl. Edward White Jr. told Anne Arundel County Circuit Court jurors yesterday, recounting that Tolbert called the Sept.

Describing a quick and chilling homicide in Annapolis' Historic District, two police officers testified yesterday that murder-carjacking suspect Terrence Tolbert told them that Straughan Lee Griffin had no opportunity to react before he was shot point-blank and run over with his own Jeep in front of his home. "I said, `Did Mr. Griffin say anything?' and he said, `No, he didn't get a chance to say anything,' " Maryland State Police Cpl. Edward White Jr. told Anne Arundel County Circuit Court jurors yesterday, recounting that Tolbert called the Sept.

A witness against Eric Tirado, the man charged in the first-degree murder of a Maryland State trooper, fended off accusations that he himself might be a criminal, or at least a scrounger for reward money.In his second day on the stand in Howard County Circuit Court yesterday, Edgar Duvarie said he had no criminal record and the State Police never offered him a reward for his testimony.Tirado, Duvarie's friend and former co-worker at check-cashing company in the Bronx, N.Y., where both men lived, is on trial on charges that he pulled the trigger in the first-degree murder of Cpl. Theodore D. Wolf on March 29, 1990.

Eugene Weddington told the jury he saw Tonya Lucas set the rowhouse fire that killed six of her children. The East Baltimore woman's lawyer then demanded to know how anyone can believe a word that comes out of this admitted perjurer's mouth.Mr. Weddington, who is being sheltered by prosecutors because of threats allegedly made by the defendant's family, spent almost three hours on the witness stand yesterday during the fourth day of Ms. Lucas' arson and murder trial in Baltimore Circuit Court.