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May 22, 2013 -
Citizens for an Elected Board (CEB), a major Prince George’s schools watchdog group, staged a rally outside the Prince George’s Board of Education (BOE) building in Upper Marlboro on May 21 to protest County Executive Rushern L. Baker III’s schools’ takeover plan. A petition drive seeking 8,000 signatures by May 31 is circulating to stop the law from taking effect June 1. more
May 22, 2013 -
County residents who allow their property to become eyesores beware. Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker, III, County Council Chair Andrea Harrison and others have announced a plan to deal with blighted properties.more
May 22, 2013 -
To escape an overcrowded household when she was a little girl, Morgan Hazelton quickly accepted her grandparent’s offer to live in their home a few miles away from her crowded household in Prince George’s County.more
May 15, 2013 -
Officer First Class Adrian A. Morris had been a member of the Prince George’s County Police Department for only two years when he was killed in an automobile accident on Interstate 95 in Beltsville, Md., in August 2012.more
May 15, 2013 -
This year the Grace Brethren Church of Clinton’s annual men’s retreat was held in a somewhat unusual venue—home. Instead of packing and traveling for the weekend, GBC’s men held a day-long conference at the church April 20.more
May 15, 2013 -
A 59-year-old Laurel man was charged with killing his wife and stepdaughter and trying to shoot his son May 13, Prince Georges County police said.more
May 15, 2013 -
Business is starting to percolate in Prince George’s County’s outer beltway areas with new restaurants and businesses opening while the bidding process for a south county casino moves into the final stages, officials said this week.more
May 09, 2013 -
WASHINGTON -- Faced with the choice of running for a third term as Prince George’s County state's attorney or returning to a law firm job and the cushy salary that comes with it, Glenn Ivey knew what he had to do.more
May 08, 2013 -
Police continue their search for suspects and a motive in the May 2 slaying of a man and woman inside a South Laurel apartment, possibly as the woman’s disabled daughter slept nearby.more
May 08, 2013 -
The panel at Prince George’s Community College included names even a casual fan of television and movies would recognize but the topic was grim—autism and the African American child.more
May 08, 2013 -
The wreck happened in the waning hours of May 2, a Thursday, at a well-traveled intersection in Brandywine.more
May 01, 2013 -
From the time she was a few days old, Jocelyn Rodriguez has been undergoing treatment for the sickle cell anemia she was diagnosed with at birth.more
May 01, 2013 -
Six weeks before the end of the school year, controversy continues to roil in the Prince George’s County school system’s leadership.more
May 01, 2013 -
A Bowie State University communications professor was named a 2013 Apple Distinguished Educator for her use of emerging technology in creating a student mobile journalism lab.more
April 26, 2013 -
OXON HILL, Md.— Prince George's County fire investigators have charged an 18-year-old man with arson after authorities say he set his mother's house on fire.more
April 24, 2013 -
Juanita Artis, a Prince George’s Community College senior, experienced a myriad of tribulations before enrolling in college.more
April 24, 2013 -
Rachel Green, a Capitol Heights resident and senior at Prince George’s Community College will be presented with the Congressional Award Gold Medal on Capitol Hill in June for her excellence in community service.more
April 17, 2013 -
Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Angela B. Alsobrooks is on a mission and she needs some help. Specifically, she needs some of the men of the region to step up.more
April 12, 2013 -
First Lady Michelle Obama is to address Bowie State University’s 2013 graduating class on May 17. She will deliver the commencement address for the nearly 600 degree recipients and will be awarded an honorary doctor of law degree.more
April 10, 2013 -
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley on April 9 signed a bill that dramatically enhances Prince George’s County Rushern L. Baker’s powers over the county’s troubled school system.more
April 10, 2013 -
Gwen S. McCall, president & CEO of the Prince George's County Economic Development Corporation, recently named former County Executive Wayne K. Curry as the new chairman of the EDC Board of Directors.more
April 05, 2013 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Maryland Rep. Donna Edwards says her staff has taken a 2 percent pay cut to avoid anyone being furloughed as a result of government-wide spending cuts, and she'll donate an equivalent part of her salary to charity.more
April 03, 2013 -
The Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright Jr. will explore the impact of Dr. Martin Luther King’s nonviolent social change philosophies at a free public lecture on the 45th anniversary of King’s assassination. His lecture will kick off Bowie State University’s inaugural Conference Commemorating Dr. King’s Legacy of Nonviolence and Civil Rights Leadership, 5 p.m., April 4.more
April 03, 2013 -
Retired educator L. Regina Barton, 71, inched towards the hearing room of the Department of Legislative Services in Annapolis on April 1 with the support of a walker. The life-long county resident attended the joint hearing on County Executive Rushern L. Baker III’s proposed schools takeover to declare her opposition to the plan.more
April 03, 2013 -
Stephen Reid, age 50, of Frederick, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud relating to the failure to provide contracted-for services to clients of Reid’s company, RMS Direct, Inc., resulting in losses of over $628,500.more
March 28, 2013 -
Prince George’s County police have charged a 35 year-old man with two counts of homicide following a two-car collision that killed two persons in Glenn Dale on March 25.more
March 27, 2013 -
Charlene M. Dukes, president of Prince George’s Community College, was inducted into the Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame March 21 in a ceremony that cited her contributions to education and the state of Maryland.more
March 27, 2013 -
LANHAM, Md. (AP) — A lockdown has been lifted at a Prince George's County high school.more
March 20, 2013 -
Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III wants to assume full control of Prince George’s County’s massive—and troubled --school system in a move that would reduce the power of some on the 10-member school board and make the school superintendent part of his cabinet.more
March 20, 2013 -
A former Prince George's County police official who was convicted of killing a furniture delivery man in his Accokeek home, and seriously wounding another, is asking for a new trial.more
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