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The following are excerpts from First Lady Michelle Obama’s commencement speech at Bowie State University on May 18.more
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First Lady Michelle Obama (Courtesy Photo)
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Originally published May 22, 2013The following are excerpts from First Lady Michelle Obama’s commencement speech at Bowie State University on May 18.more
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May 22, 2013 -
Citizens for an Elected Board (CEB), a major Prince George’s schools watchdog group, staged a rally outside the Prince George’s Board of Education (BOE) building in Upper Marlboro on May 21 to protest County Executive Rushern L. Baker III’s schools’ takeover plan. A petition drive seeking 8,000 signatures by May 31 is circulating to stop the law from taking effect June 1. more
May 22, 2013 -
County residents who allow their property to become eyesores beware. Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker, III, County Council Chair Andrea Harrison and others have announced a plan to deal with blighted properties.more
May 22, 2013 -
To escape an overcrowded household when she was a little girl, Morgan Hazelton quickly accepted her grandparent’s offer to live in their home a few miles away from her crowded household in Prince George’s County.more
May 15, 2013 -
Officer First Class Adrian A. Morris had been a member of the Prince George’s County Police Department for only two years when he was killed in an automobile accident on Interstate 95 in Beltsville, Md., in August 2012.more
May 15, 2013 -
This year the Grace Brethren Church of Clinton’s annual men’s retreat was held in a somewhat unusual venue—home. Instead of packing and traveling for the weekend, GBC’s men held a day-long conference at the church April 20.more
May 15, 2013 -
A 59-year-old Laurel man was charged with killing his wife and stepdaughter and trying to shoot his son May 13, Prince Georges County police said.more
May 15, 2013 -
Business is starting to percolate in Prince George’s County’s outer beltway areas with new restaurants and businesses opening while the bidding process for a south county casino moves into the final stages, officials said this week.more
May 09, 2013 -
WASHINGTON -- Faced with the choice of running for a third term as Prince George’s County state's attorney or returning to a law firm job and the cushy salary that comes with it, Glenn Ivey knew what he had to do.more
May 08, 2013 -
Police continue their search for suspects and a motive in the May 2 slaying of a man and woman inside a South Laurel apartment, possibly as the woman’s disabled daughter slept nearby.more
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