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May 01, 2013 -
A Bowie State University communications professor was named a 2013 Apple Distinguished Educator for her use of emerging technology in creating a student mobile journalism lab.more
April 26, 2013 -
OXON HILL, Md.— Prince George's County fire investigators have charged an 18-year-old man with arson after authorities say he set his mother's house on fire.more
April 24, 2013 -
Rachel Green, a Capitol Heights resident and senior at Prince George’s Community College will be presented with the Congressional Award Gold Medal on Capitol Hill in June for her excellence in community service.more
April 24, 2013 -
Juanita Artis, a Prince George’s Community College senior, experienced a myriad of tribulations before enrolling in college.more
April 17, 2013 -
Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Angela B. Alsobrooks is on a mission and she needs some help. Specifically, she needs some of the men of the region to step up.more
April 12, 2013 -
First Lady Michelle Obama is to address Bowie State University’s 2013 graduating class on May 17. She will deliver the commencement address for the nearly 600 degree recipients and will be awarded an honorary doctor of law degree.more
April 10, 2013 -
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley on April 9 signed a bill that dramatically enhances Prince George’s County Rushern L. Baker’s powers over the county’s troubled school system.more
April 10, 2013 -
Gwen S. McCall, president & CEO of the Prince George's County Economic Development Corporation, recently named former County Executive Wayne K. Curry as the new chairman of the EDC Board of Directors.more
April 05, 2013 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Maryland Rep. Donna Edwards says her staff has taken a 2 percent pay cut to avoid anyone being furloughed as a result of government-wide spending cuts, and she'll donate an equivalent part of her salary to charity.more
April 03, 2013 -
The Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright Jr. will explore the impact of Dr. Martin Luther King’s nonviolent social change philosophies at a free public lecture on the 45th anniversary of King’s assassination. His lecture will kick off Bowie State University’s inaugural Conference Commemorating Dr. King’s Legacy of Nonviolence and Civil Rights Leadership, 5 p.m., April 4.more
April 03, 2013 -
Retired educator L. Regina Barton, 71, inched towards the hearing room of the Department of Legislative Services in Annapolis on April 1 with the support of a walker. The life-long county resident attended the joint hearing on County Executive Rushern L. Baker III’s proposed schools takeover to declare her opposition to the plan.more
April 03, 2013 -
Stephen Reid, age 50, of Frederick, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud relating to the failure to provide contracted-for services to clients of Reid’s company, RMS Direct, Inc., resulting in losses of over $628,500.more
March 28, 2013 -
Prince George’s County police have charged a 35 year-old man with two counts of homicide following a two-car collision that killed two persons in Glenn Dale on March 25.more
March 27, 2013 -
Charlene M. Dukes, president of Prince George’s Community College, was inducted into the Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame March 21 in a ceremony that cited her contributions to education and the state of Maryland.more
March 27, 2013 -
LANHAM, Md. (AP) — A lockdown has been lifted at a Prince George's County high school.more
March 20, 2013 -
Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III wants to assume full control of Prince George’s County’s massive—and troubled --school system in a move that would reduce the power of some on the 10-member school board and make the school superintendent part of his cabinet.more
March 20, 2013 -
A former Prince George's County police official who was convicted of killing a furniture delivery man in his Accokeek home, and seriously wounding another, is asking for a new trial.more
March 16, 2013 -
Tisa Clark, president and owner of J.D. Clark Professional Services, is one of more than a dozen minority-owned businesses to refine their approach to running a business thanks to an innovative Prince George’s Community College program designed to help minority business prosper.more
March 12, 2013 -
ANNAPOLIS – One week after the Maryland Senate passed a bill to repeal the state’s death penalty, the House of Delegates is poised to do the same.more
March 07, 2013 -
Maryland’s employment, education and health care sectors will all be negatively impacted by federal sequestration, Congressman Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told the AFRO.more
March 06, 2013 -
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - As the Catholic Church prepares to elect a new pope to guide it into the future, church leaders are struggling to keep young people from leaving the faith.
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February 27, 2013 -
More than 200 Prince George’s County residents and officials gathered at the Suitland Recreation Center to discuss how to halt a spate of killings that has left six high school youths dead since the beginning of the school year.more
February 27, 2013 -
ELKRIDGE – Maryland’s location near the nation’s capital will cause sequestration to have a stronger influence on the state’s economy, Gov. Martin O’Malley said to employees at FLIR Systems, a thermal imaging company here.more
February 23, 2013 -
A Prince George’s County, Md. father and his two young daughters were killed in a fire that swept through their Glenarden, Md. home in the early morning hours of Feb. 21.more
February 22, 2013 -
(Updated 2/24/2013)- Just three days before Black History Month rolled in, Bowie, Md.-based photographer Eunique Jones Gibson met with her business partner, Ashleigh Bing, about doing a photo project based on the celebration.more
February 22, 2013 -
The Maryland Senate is set to vote on Gov. Martin O’Malley’s package of new gun legislation in the coming week.more
February 20, 2013 -
Four Prince George’s County fire stations are set to lose all their paid firefighters on March 4, as announced in early February by county Fire Chief Marc Bashoor. more
February 20, 2013 -
For the second time in less than 24 hours, students at Suitland High School are mourning the death of a classmate.more
February 16, 2013 -
Senators Barbara A. Mikulski and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.) today announced that the Morningside Volunteer Fire Department and the Chillum-Adelphi Volunteer Fire Department won $446,245 and $103,500, respectively, in federally-funded tuition aid for first responders.more
February 13, 2013 -
The Black History Month breakfast staged annually by House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) was held Feb. 9 at the Greater Waldorf Jaycees Community Center in Waldorf, Md. more
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