Category: Prince George’s County News

Bowie-based Pursuing a Dream Corp. joins the increasing number of organizations and community groups pushing kids towards careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) as it begins to hold forums to get its message to the public. Harry Washington, president and founder of the organization, says growing up he didn’t have anyone he could […]

A Fox 5 News report on the expenses of state legislators has triggered a strong reaction from many major players in Prince George’s County. According to the report, many legislators cost the state thousands of taxpayer dollars in work-related travel expenses, though many of them live less than 50 miles away from Annapolis. Over the […]

Prince George’s Police Department (PGPD) has had a very inauspicious beginning to 2011. Despite that, confidence remains high in Interim Police Chief Mark Magaw’s ability to effectively run his department. The department had a public relations nightmare in the first two months of the year as homicides spiked. So far in 2011, there have been […]

The news came just a little before midnight on March 1: Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the devastating terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was dead. After a decade of eluding capture by America’s and its allies’ forces, the al-Qaeda leader was killed in a U.S. special forces attack on his compound in Abbottabad, […]

ANNAPOLIS — After at least two years of noncompliance and threats of funding cuts from the U.S. Department of Justice, Maryland appears to be on track for compliance with federal rules meant to protect juveniles from interacting with adult offenders when they’re detained in adult facilities. The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) requires […]

Villages of Marlborough (VOM) residents were informed that Marlborough Country Club was foreclosed on last week in a continuing and frustrating saga. At a February meeting with community residents, Hercules Pitts, the owner of Marlborough and Lake Arbor Gold Course, said a group of investors would help keep the golf courses in his possession.That evening […]

Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker remains upbeat about the county’s health care woes, although budget constraints strangle nearly every facet of the county’s finances. “We want to make sure that everybody who needs health care in this county will have access,” Baker said earlier this month. A 2010 study conducted by Rand, a nonprofit […]

The state of Maryland, Prince George’s County and developers at Konterra Town Center have entered into an agreement to finish the last section of the Intercounty Connector (ICC). The agreement was four years in the making as the state and county avoided imminent domain proceedings with Konterra. “This innovative agreement benefits the public sector, the […]

Plans to develop the area around the Bowie State University MARC train station are progressing as Prince George’s County officials have applied some pressure. Earlier this month the County Council established the Bowie State MARC Station Development Board, which is charged with recommending companies for development, redevelopment and financing of the county-owned property in the […]

Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS) is trying to fight back at a determination by the Department of Labor (DOL) that says the school system erred in compensating teachers in its H-1B temporary foreign worker visa program. PGCPS Superintendent William Hite, who said the county will appeal the decision, acknowledged mistakes were made, but said […]

Controversy over the liquor license application process in Calvert County has African-American officials in the county furious. The county’s branch of the NAACP is upset over language in the license application process it believes contributes to discrimination. On March 14, the NAACP asked the liquor board to remove the requirement for applicants to disclose their […]

Prince George’s County Public Schools is still trying to figure out what it will do with its busing service after a letter from the Maryland attorney general’s office said it was illegal to ask parents to pay to bus their kids to magnet programs outside of neighborhood boundaries. Del. Jolene Ivey, D.-Dist. 47, requested that […]