Category: Prince George’s County News

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, […]

COLLEGE PARK – Maryland State Police are taking three times longer than usual to finish background checks on new gun purchases, Maryland gun dealers said in interviews. The process usually takes seven days, but several Maryland gun dealers said it was taking three weeks or more for the agency to complete the checks. They blamed […]

A man and a woman died in a New Carrollton apartment fire that erupted January 13 and a third man who was injured in the blaze has been arrested for double-murder, officials said. Details remain murky, but police know this: Officers were called to the Fountain Club Apartments in the 7600 block of Fountainbleu Dr. […]

School officials are calling on parents and other stakeholders in Prince George’s schools to weigh in on a plan to adjust boundaries for two schools and move some sixth graders from elementary to middle schools. The proposal, which calls for some 400 students from Oxon Hill High School to be moved to under-attended Potomac High […]

A former FBI agent was sentenced Jan. 4 to 18 months in prison for a 2011 drunken-driving crash that left an 18-year-old man dead. Adrian Johnson, 39, of Brandywine, Md. was convicted in October of motor vehicle manslaughter and six related charges, according to the Washington Post. He was jailed immediately after sentencing and will […]

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The state’s highest court has ruled that former delegate Tiffany Alston will not get her seat back and that the governor can fill the vacancy in Prince George’s County. The Court of Appeals, in a brief ruling, said Friday that neither Alston nor Greg Hall, whom the Prince George’s Democratic Central […]

They headed to Jamaica for a respite from the East Coast winter, the grandmother from Brooklyn, N.Y., her daughter, a nurse at Southern Maryland Hospital, and her daughter, a coordinator for a Lanham psychiatric program. Going back to Jamaica was a rare treat for the family, who originally hailed from Kingston. They had spent time […]

WASHINGTON – The implementation of table games and 24-hour gaming in Maryland will create employment opportunities, but competition from Horseshoe Casino in Baltimore and the proposed casino at the National Harbor will likely affect the labor market geographically, according to experts. Maryland voters approved a referendum last November expanding gaming in Maryland. It allowed for […]

After covering Michelle Obama during her first year in the White House, New York Times reporter Rachel L. Swarns said she jumped at the opportunity to chronicle the first lady’s family history. “As the first African American first lady, people were enormously interested,” Swarns said. And, Obama, a descendant of the South, proved an interesting […]