Category: Prince George’s County News

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 […]

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 […]

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. Ramon Anaya-Ascencio, of no fixed address, faces eight charges including two counts of homicide by motor vehicle while impaired by alcohol as well as two counts […]

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. In her induction acceptance speech at the Miller Senate Office Building in Annapolis, Dukes noted her upbringing in Pennsylvania, her family […]

LANHAM, Md. (AP) — A lockdown has been lifted at a Prince George’s County high school. DuVal High School in Lanham was temporarily locked down Wednesday because of what police say was a generic report of a gun, possibly in the school. A spokesman for the county public school system said police investigated and determined […]

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. If Baker succeeds in winning approval by the state legislature […]

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. Keith Washington, who had close ties to now-imprisoned former County Executive Jack B. Johnson before his conviction in 2008, was scheduled on March 20 and […]

Tisa Clark, president and owner of J.D. Clark Professional Services, is one of more than a dozen minority-owned businesses to refine their approach to running a business thanks to an innovative Prince George’s Community College program designed to help minority business prosper. The effort, called the Accelerator Program, which was created by a $5 million […]

ANNAPOLIS – One week after the Maryland Senate passed a bill to repeal the state’s death penalty, the House of Delegates is poised to do the same. But in spite of the expected success of Gov. Martin O’Malley’s bill to abolish capital punishment, there are Republicans and Democrats in the House still arguing that Maryland […]

Maryland’s employment, education and health care sectors will all be negatively impacted by federal sequestration, Congressman Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told the AFRO. “The sequester across the board will have negative effects on a ton of people across the country and particularly minorities,” said Hoyer. Sequestration began on March 1, bringing a series of across-the-board budget […]