Category: Prince George’s County News

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. […]

The wreck happened in the waning hours of May 2, a Thursday, at a well-traveled intersection in Brandywine. According to police, a blue Chrysler van traveling southbound on Route 301 at Shortcut Road failed to yield to oncoming traffic. Traveling in the northbound lanes were two motorcycles, one driven by Caleb Williams, the other by […]

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. Nearly 150 people gathered at the Largo campus for the enlightening, and at times emotional, panel discussion on African-Americans and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) sponsored by […]

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. She’s had 25 blood transfusions, two surgeries and been hospitalized more than 30 times. She’s missed at least half of each school year and has never had the kind […]

Six weeks before the end of the school year, controversy continues to roil in the Prince George’s County school system’s leadership. In recent weeks, the interim schools superintendent announced his resignation, a Board of Education member was penalized for making unauthorized charges with her county-issued credit card, the selection process for school board appointees began […]