Category: Prince George’s County News

On the heels of the indictments of former Prince George’s County Executive Jack Johnson and his wife, Councilwoman Leslie Johnson, D-Dist. 6, county officials continue to work towards reforming the government through several methods. Earlier this month, the county council announced measures, called ‘good government reforms,’ it hopes will create government Prince George’s residents can […]

Mortgage fraud wasn’t the only deceptive practice plaguing Marylanders. Lamondes Williams, 51, of Baltimore along with Erica Brown, 28, of Laurel, Md., are accused of falsely promising people with bad credit to rent vehicles with an understanding that rental payments would go towards the purchase of the vehicle. The indictment says Williams was the mastermind […]

Prince George’s County Councilwoman Leslie Johnson, D-Dist. 6, will have her day in court May 4 on witness and evidence tampering charges. Johnson was arrested Nov. 12 along with her husband, former Prince George’s County Executive Jack Johnson, after FBI heard a wiretapped conversation between the two. In that conversation, Leslie Johnson told her husband […]

Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker joined leaders nationwide last week to encourage Congress to provide more Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding, which is in jeopardy because of the current economic crisis. “The CDBG program is critical for our local economies,” said U.S. Conference of Mayors President Elizabeth Kautz in a statement. “Not only […]

Click Here to Read the Introduction Click Here to View Responses from Baltimore Residents. Click Here to View Responses from Washington D.C. Residents. Krystal Hamlet, Credit Specialist “I have been very impressed with the Affordable Healthcare Act so far. It was because of this act, that my place of employment now provides health insurance for […]

All over Prince George’s County, people are moving into foreclosed homes for prices cheaper than many other people paid for their homes. And, for the most part, Prince George’s homeowners are perfectly fine with it. In some areas of the country, government assistance, aimed at keeping and getting people into foreclosed homes, is really angering […]

Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker released his proposed budget on March 14 for the Prince George’s County Council’s review. In the budget, Baker said he tried to fund key programs even though the county’s economy is still in a downturn. “In order to move Prince George’s County along the path to greatness, we had […]

The Prince George’s Community College Communication and Theatre Department is currently in rehearsals of August Wilson’s play, Two Trains Running, a story about civil rights era Pittsburgh. “August Wilson didn’t write about famous people,” said Charles Weldon, the director of the play. “He wrote about people you’ve never heard of, who live in the house […]

In 1974, Clarence and Betty Johnson bought a house on the 600 block of Clovis Avenue in Capitol Heights. Over 35 years later, the couple is out of that house, as the foreclosure crisis engulfed their dream of owning their home outright. While many in the county fell prey to sub-prime mortgages and predatory lender, […]

After the Maryland Senate passed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage, most in the state thought the measure’s fate in the House similarly was a done deal. After two co-sponsors of the bill walked off the floor during a committee vote, its prospects became a bit murkier. Del. Tiffany Alston, D-Dist. 24, and Del. Jill […]

Seven members of the University of Maryland chapter of Zeta Phi Beta have been criminally charged after a former pledge went to the police, alleging abuse on-line. Amber Bijou, 22, Montressa Hammond 24, Monika Young, 23, Tymesha Pendleton, 26, Kandyce Jackson, 20, Tymesha Pendleton, 26, and Bridget Blount, 24, have all been charged with second-degree […]

The Prince George’s County Council held a town hall budget meeting at Prince George’s Community College on Feb. 28. The purpose of the meeting was to inform the public on the budget process, but it quickly turned into a session to save busing for magnet programs in Prince George’s County. The school that showed up […]