Category: Prince George’s County News

Amina Hamid 20, and Charles Mayberry, 19, both of Oxon Hill, pled guilty May 24 to a charge of pandering after admitting to luring a young woman into prostitution, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced in a statement. Sentencing is scheduled for July 19. Each faces a statutory maximum of five years in prison. […]

Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III made a trip to South Bowie May 28 to explain and rally support for a new law scheduled to take effect June 1which gives him the power to appoint the new schools head administrator, name three members to the school board and determine the school board chair […]

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. Morgan Hazelton, 22, is a product of a grand families home. She grew up in Prince George’s County. When she […]

The following are excerpts from First Lady Michelle Obama’s commencement speech at Bowie State University on May 18. On congratulating the graduates: “You don’t know how proud we all are of you. Just look at you. We’re so proud of how hard you worked, all those long hours in the classroom, in the library. Oh, […]

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 […]

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. The Property Standards Reform Action Plan is a 25-point agenda outlining code enforcement services designed to enforce the county code and […]

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. Morris was among 120 police officers nationwide who died last year who were remembered during National Police […]

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. From group sessions to playing basketball, GBC showed how much of a family they really are. The event […]

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. Ronnie Lee Rainey was arrested by police at his home in the 16100 block of Malcolm Drive, in Laurel after police responded to a 9-1-1 call from a man who, […]

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. A major project is expected to be announced by mid May. Aubrey Thagard, an assistant deputy chief administrative officer […]

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. “The college tuition mountain is certainly something we want to make sure we can […]

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. The bodies were found in the Montpelier Crossing apartment complex in the 9600 block of Muirkirk Road in South Laure about 8:15 a.m. […]