Category: Prince George’s County News

A last-minute agreement between attorneys for business owners at the Suitland Center in Suitland, Md. and the Prince George’s County Revenue Authority, extended the move out date to Jan. 5, 2018. In the agreement, the county waived the business owners’ last 90 days of rent to help with the move. Suitland Center Antonio Lindsay says […]

First Baptist Church of Glenarden (FBCG), located at 600 Watkins Park Dr., is scheduled to host a Gift Cards for Guns program on Nov. 18 from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. The program is being conducted to make the community safer. The gun turn-in event is sponsored by FBCG, Zion Church, Prince George’s County Police […]

Anthony Ayers Sr. has held prominent positions in Prince George’s County law enforcement.  Now, he is taking the electoral route and said he hopes county residents elect him as sheriff. Anthony Ayers, former police chief of Capitol Heights, Md., is joining the race to become the next county sheriff. (Courtesy photo) Ayers is the former […]

Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker, III is defending a 200 page audit that raises questions about whether or not school officials engaged in a wide scale grade fraud to help students graduate. County Executive Rushern Baker is defending the results of an audit conducted on the Prince George’s County Public Schools. (Courtesy Photo) The audit […]

Authorities say a house fire that left two men dead in a Maryland suburb of Washington was deliberately set. Police and fire officials in Prince George’s County said in a statement Nov. 7 that the fire broke out Nov. 2 in a vacant, single-family house in Seat Pleasant, Md. As firefighters battled the blaze, they […]

LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen has endorsed Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker in Maryland’s governor’s race. Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen (right) has endorsed Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker (center left) in Maryland’s governor’s race (Twitter Photo @RushernBaker) Van Hollen, a Democrat, endorsed Baker on Friday during an announcement […]

Prince George’s County Deputy Sheriff Kendal Wade wants county voters to promote him to sheriff. “I am running for sheriff because I feel that the residents of Prince George’s County deserve more,” Wade told the AFRO. Current Deputy Sheriff Kendal Wade is running for Prince George’s County Sheriff. (Courtesy photo) Wade is challenging his boss, […]

GapBuster is a Riverdale, Md. minority-founded educational organization dedicated to promoting higher levels of achievement and closing the performance gap of students by enriching and supplementing the learning experience. Students speak with members of the University of Maryland Police Department at the Center For Educational Partnership. (Courtesy photo) “We are a family-oriented program,” Yvette Butler, […]

Women fighting breast cancer often find themselves mired in a whirlwind of doctors’ visits, chemotherapy sessions, and ongoing bouts of illness triggered by debilitating treatments. These treatments, such as chemotherapy, mastectomies, and radiation, only add to the litany of worries breast cancer survivors face. Dr. Regina Hampton, left, and Jasmine Jones are the founders of […]

A Black man has died a week after he was hit by a car that plowed into a restaurant in a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C. A car crashed into an Upper Marlboro, Md. restaurant on Oct. 24. Isiah Pugh (center) was pronounced dead from his injuries on Oct. 31. (Courtesy Photo) Prince George’s County […]

Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker III, recently announced five nominees for the county’s Board of License Commissioners, commonly known as the liquor board. The board is a “quasi-judicial function” responsible for enforcing and administering state alcohol laws and regulations. County Executive Rushern Baker recently nominated commissioners to the county’s liquor board. (Courtesy Photo) The […]

Meridian Hill Baptist Church, located at 5354 Sheriff Rd., is scheduled to host the “Defying the Odds” Symposium on Nov. 4 from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. This free event, which is hosted by MHBC’s Social Services Ministry in conjunction with Concrete Rose Youth Modeling Group, LLC, is open to all and will feature a […]