Category: Prince George’s County News

More than 200 Prince George’s County residents and officials gathered at the Suitland Recreation Center to discuss how to halt a spate of killings that has left six high school youths dead since the beginning of the school year. The Feb. 25 meeting was convened in the wake of back-to-back killings of two Suitland High […]

ELKRIDGE – Maryland’s location near the nation’s capital will cause sequestration to have a stronger influence on the state’s economy, Gov. Martin O’Malley said to employees at FLIR Systems, a thermal imaging company here. He’s one of several high-profile Maryland politicians leading the discussion on sequester – the series of federal budget cuts set to […]

A Prince George’s County, Md. father and his two young daughters were killed in a fire that swept through their Glenarden, Md. home in the early morning hours of Feb. 21. Authorities said the fire was reported by neighbors at about 4 a.m. after witnesses saw the family’s one-story home on Leslie Avenue engulfed in […]

(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 […]