Category: Prince George’s County News

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. Allissa Richardson, a lecturer in the Department of Communications, is one of 200 educators from all academic levels selected among applicants from 37 different countries, including the United States, […]

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. Firefighters were called to the Oxon Hill home about 7:30 a.m. April 26 after police reported the man was involved in a dispute with relatives, had set a fire in […]

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. Green, 24, completed numerous community service projects through AmeriCorps’ National Civilian Community Corporation.

Juanita Artis, a Prince George’s Community College senior, experienced a myriad of tribulations before enrolling in college. She graduated from high school with a 1.2 grade point average and faced tremendous personal family struggles. But she overcame her obstacles and excelled following her entrance into PGCC. Now, Artis will deliver the student address the college’s […]

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. Alsobrooks is sponsoring a “Brotherhood Summit” in an attempt to uplift and unite the young men of Prince George’s. She has asked that adult men […]

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. The 2013 graduation ceremony, a ticketed event to be held at Comcast Center on the University of […]

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. The Academic Revitalization and Management Effectiveness Act bill which changes the process for selecting public school leadership in Prince George’s County. The bill, submitted by Baker, was debated by […]

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. “We are pleased to have a leader whose roots in this county run deep,” McCall said in a statement. “He brings an enviable […]

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. The Washington Post reports (http://wapo.st/YAxw0n) the Democrat made the announcement Thursday. She says her donations […]

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. The free […]

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. “I have […]

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. “In addition to defrauding postal customers, this scheme jeopardized the reputation of the U.S. Postal […]