Category: Prince George’s County News

The deadline to submit applications for Prince George’s County Public Schools Specialty Programs and public charter school lottery is March 16. The lottery is open to all students who are residents of the county. According to the PGCPS, the computerized lottery assigns random numbers to each application. Then applications are sorted based on the randomly […]

A University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) student was arrested, March 11, after allegedly making various threats on the Internet to shoot students in a common area on campus. The student, 19-year-old Alexander Song, was apprehended by police after several calls were made to notify them of the comments on sites such as the UMD […]

Prince George’s Community College’s Center for Minority Business Development (CMBD) will hold a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) Procurement and Business Development Conference April 26 to discuss procurement challenges, improve programs, build skills and develop networking opportunities. “Our organization’s mission is to work with local minority businesses to expand their capabilities, business opportunities and knowledge about […]

A Prince George’s County Police Department executive review panel charged a county councilwoman with reckless driving nearly two weeks after she was let off with a slap on the wrist. Prince George’s County Councilwoman Karen Toles initially got off easy after she was pulled over going 105 miles per hour on the Beltway. Toles was […]

Arkansas-native Jonathan Neal’s love affair with flying began when he was in the third grade. Now the 32-year-old uses his experience to help local kids achieve their dreams in the aviation industry. Neal and his business partner Wayne Tonkins formed Outreach Aviation, a nonprofit based in Prince George’s County, which provides youth with unique educational […]

State Sen. C. Anthony Muse’s bid to unseat Ben Cardin for his U.S. Senate seat has been eventful so far and continues to be so after the Baltimore-based Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance’s (IMA) endorsed Cardin. In Facebook posts and tweets that have since been taken down, Muse’s team linked to a blog post – also sent […]

COLLEGE PARK — Families with young children in Prince George’s County need to make more than $50,000 a year to cover just their basic living expenses, according to a new report. That figure is up more than 40 percent over the past 10 years, driven largely by the cost of housing, daycare and taxes. While […]

The town of Edmonston was recognized by the White House last week for its green street project which has completely transformed one of the town’s streets into a fully environmental responsible street. “This is a great day for the Town of Edmonston and Prince George’s County.  To be honored by President Obama and The White […]

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The Maryland Senate has voted to censure a Prince George’s county state senator who failed to disclose work for a grocery store chain. The Senate voted 47-0 on Friday to censure Sen. Ulysses Currie. The recommendation was made by the Joint Committee on Legislative Ethics. The panel determined Currie used his […]

The Prince George’s County Board of Education is going against the wishes of Maryland State Comptroller Peter Franchot by not making financial literacy mandatory for graduation from the county’s public schools. “There is no problem whatsoever with making this a graduation requirement,” Prince George’s County Public Schools superintendent William Hite said during a Feb. 9 […]

At a Valentine’s Day council meeting, the Prince George’s County Council sent a strong statement to Gov. Martin O’Malley that shifting the burden of state pensions to counties is a bad idea. Councilwoman Ingrid Turner, D.-Dist. 4, also the president of the Maryland Association of Counties (MaCo), asks how counties should be expected to pay […]

Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler said victims of the foreclosure crisis in Maryland will be getting some relief as the state has recovered up to $959 million in funds as a result of an investigation into fraudulent practices by national banks. According to Gansler, roughly $62.5 million will be used for housing-related projects through the […]