Category: Prince George’s County News

Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III announced June 20 that he will run for re-election in 2014 to build on the accomplishments of his first term and advance some new initiatives. The announcement came at a fundraiser at the Newton White Mansion in Mitchellville, MD. His supporters paid up to $1,000 to attend […]

Teaching was last thing on the mind of Albert T. Lewis when he left Capital Heights for Morgan State University. The communications major had ambitions to be a broadcast journalist, but even after writing for the school’s newspaper and completing several prominent sports journalism internships at FOX 45 and the Associated Press, he found his […]

Prince George’s County officials are touting a $1.2 billion retrofit plan to protect its waterways from urban pollution as required by the federal Clean Water Act. Last year, in response to the federal mandate, Gov. Martin O’Malley enacted the Watershed Protection and Restoration Program, which required the state’s major jurisdictions to devise a plan to […]

The Prince George’s County Board of Education is at authorized strength with the June 17 swearing-in of three new members—all veteran educators—to create a 14-member board. Former University of the District of Columbia provost Beverly Anderson and former public school teacher Dan Kaufman, executive vice president of a New York City communications consultant firm, were […]

Prince George’s County resident LaTara Harris was named AT&T’s new regional director of external affairs for AT&T in the Mid Atlantic. She will focus on local legislative and regulatory affairs in Maryland, the District of Columbia and Northern Virginia. She joins AT&T after more than ten years with the Maryland Business Roundtable for Education, where […]

Melwood, a non-profit organization that creates jobs and opportunities to improve the lives of people with disabilities, is ready to celebrate this summer. For their 50th anniversary, the group is turning its Upper Marlboro campus into play space June 15 from noon to 4 p.m.with food vendors, a festival of arts and crafts, music, wine […]

Some locals may consider Largo to be downtown Prince George’s County with its town center and hot restaurants such as Carolina Kitchen. Others say it is Hyattsville, home to an arts district, government buildings and court house. But according to county planners, the rapidly growing area home to many professional African Americans has no designated […]

The Prince George’s County Public Schools Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Search Committee held a town hall-style conference call on June 10 to get community feedback on the necessary qualities for a new schools leader. Charlene Dukes, chair of the search committee and president of Prince George’s Community College, moderated the 90-minute call. Prince George’s County […]

Union Bethel AME Church’s 11 a.m. service was more special than usual June 9. The congregation celebrated 27 years of Rev. Dr. Harry L. Seawright’s leadership but the highlight of the day was burning the mortgage for the massive church building in Brandywine, Md. and 38 of the 55 acres the church sits on. Amid […]

Newly appointed Prince George’s County School Board Chair Segun Eubanks said his first task is to integrate a highly qualified superintendent and a reconstituted school board and to develop a new agenda geared towards student achievement and parental and community involvement. In an interview with the AFRO, Eubanks, who was appointed by Prince George’s County Executive […]

The Prince George’s County officials are offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for a string of arson fires in the Laurel area. Since the beginning of the year, there have been a total of nine fires in Laurel at various community parks and businesses prompting […]

Amina Hamid 20, and Charles Mayberry, 19, both of Oxon Hill, pled guilty May 24 to a charge of pandering after admitting to luring a young woman into prostitution, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced in a statement. Sentencing is scheduled for July 19. Each faces a statutory maximum of five years in prison. […]