Category: Prince George’s County News

(Updated 2/24/2013)- Just three days before Black History Month rolled in, Bowie, Md.-based photographer Eunique Jones Gibson met with her business partner, Ashleigh Bing, about doing a photo project based on the celebration. The 29-year-old photographer and owner of Eunique Jones Photography specializes in capturing non-traditional love and “life moments” such as engagements, weddings and […]

The Maryland Senate is set to vote on Gov. Martin O’Malley’s package of new gun legislation in the coming week. If approved, the law would ban assault rifles, decrease the maximum capacity of ammunition magazines from 20 to 10, update handgun licensing requirements to include digital fingerprinting, improve school security and restrict the ability of […]

Four Prince George’s County fire stations are set to lose all their paid firefighters on March 4, as announced in early February by county Fire Chief Marc Bashoor. As part of a multi-step plan to combat redundancy, Seat Pleasant Station 808, Branchville Station 811, Boulevard Heights Station 817 and West Lanham Hills Station 828 will […]

For the second time in less than 24 hours, students at Suitland High School are mourning the death of a classmate. Just after 5:30 p.m. Feb. 19 in Forestville, a double shooting in the 3700 block of Donnell Drive left an 18-year-old freshman dead and another 18-year-old dying The latest shooting victim was identified as […]

Senators Barbara A. Mikulski and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.) today announced that the Morningside Volunteer Fire Department and the Chillum-Adelphi Volunteer Fire Department won $446,245 and $103,500, respectively, in federally-funded tuition aid for first responders. The money comes from the Department of Homeland Security’s Staffing for Adequate Fire & Emergency Response (SAFER) program to provide […]

A hearing to determine if a board of directors appointed by Apostle Betty R. Peebles for the Jericho City of Praise (JCOP) church is valid was postponed in Prince George’s County Circuit Court on February 8. The hearing was requested by Joel Peebles, the youngest son and only living heir of Betty Peebles, in his […]

The Black History Month breakfast staged annually by House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) was held Feb. 9 at the Greater Waldorf Jaycees Community Center in Waldorf, Md. The event, which spotlighted Black achievement, drew more than 400 community leaders from , Prince George’s, Charles, Calvert, St. Mary’s and Anne Arundel counties. Benjamin Jealous, president […]

A Maryland man has been convicted of conspiring to commit armed robberies of delivery trucks that were distributing Apple Inc. products throughout the region. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria found 31-year-old Khalil Blackman of District Heights, Md., guilty on Feb. 4 following a bench trial. He faces a mandatory minimum of seven years […]

Prince George’s County, Md. Police have arrested a suspect in the shooting death of a North Carolina man. Officers said Feb. 7 that 26 year-old Brandon Anthony Battle of Greenbelt, Md. has been charged with first- and second-degree murder in the death of 20-year-old Salaam Adams of Durham, N.C. Police found Adams’ body early Feb. […]

GREENBELT, Md.–A 31-year-old Capitol Heights, Md. man is to spend just over 12 years in jail and another decade in supervised release for his role in the sex trafficking of two Virginia teenage girls in Prince George’s County, a federal judge in Greenbelt ruled Feb. 1. In a plea agreement accepted by Chief U.S. District […]

WASHINGTON – Maryland’s redrawn congressional map, which paved the way for a Democratic victory in November, significantly altered the makeup of two of the state’s eight congressional districts, as expected, according to recently-released demographic estimates. The 6th Congressional District, which was reshaped to include a swath of heavily Democratic Montgomery County, is now 69 percent […]

Hundreds of mourners, many of them wearing T-shirts, buttons and headbands bearing the words “RIP Spike” filed by the open casket at Ebenezer AME Church in Fort Washington to say goodbye to 16-year-old Marcus Antonio Jones who was fatally shot Jan. 20 after a birthday party. The friends were there and so were his parents, […]