Prince George's County

Sellers need to get realistic about what their homes are worth

2009-05-24 00:00:00

Housing prices are still in retreat, according to the latest government figures, and two recent surveys indicate that prices have to tumble further before the market reaches equilibrium. Only 27% of the houses listed for sale throughout the country...

Gang Uses Deportation to Its Advantage to Flourish in U.S.

2005-10-30 00:00:00

On a sweltering afternoon, an unmarked white jetliner taxies to a remote terminal at the international airport here and disgorges dozens of criminal deportees from the United States. Marshals release the handcuffed prisoners, who shuffle into a processing...

Intervention Offers Hope Where Police and Border Crackdowns Fail

2005-12-26 00:00:00

Inside the locked gates of a county juvenile detention facility in Sylmar, all eyes are on Ernesto "Satan" Deras. Before him are two dozen teenagers accused of violent crimes and facing the prospect of being tried as adults and sent to state prison....

June rainfall totals top 6 inches around the region

2013-06-14 10:32:00

A trio of soaking rains in the past week has pushed rainfall totals above 6 inches across Central Maryland, nearly twice the normal monthly totals. At Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, 6.21 inches have fallen so far, with...

DJS' slippery slope at Silver Oak

2013-06-13 13:01:00

The state Board of Public Works' vote Wednesday to allow the privately operated Silver Oak Academy juvenile treatment center in Carroll County to double in capacity is regrettable not only because it violates the state's own policy of limiting such...

Hope House opens 'new chapter' on Laurel's Main Street

2013-06-11 08:27:00

On a sunny afternoon last week, a family could be seen walking inside Hope House Laurel, while two groups of people of varying ages sat in chairs in the shade on the side of the building talking amicably. This private substance abuse treatment center in...

Frustrated by delays, some gun dealers skip background checks

2013-06-08 11:55:42

When Scott Schulte stopped at Pasadena Pawn and Gun last week to pick up his fifth firearm of the year, the Maryland State Police still hadn't finished his background check. The store let him take the pistol anyway. "I figure I can use my discretion,"...

Park service says police furloughs no longer needed

2013-06-11 12:16:19

The National Park Service has announced that it no longer needs to furlough U.S. Park Police. The announcement came after Park Police officers — who patrol the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and several sites in Maryland — had served three of...

Ulman and Brown: the power of two

2013-06-11 09:37:00

Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown and Howard County Executive Ken Ulman shook up Maryland's 2014 gubernatorial race by announcing they will run as a ticket for the Democratic nomination in 2014. Politically and electorally, it's a shrewd and gutsy move. Picking...

State OKs move of housing agency from Crownsville to Prince George's

2013-05-29 15:25:00

Maryland officials approved Wednesday a much-debated plan to move the headquarters of the state's housing agency — along with 380 jobs — from Anne Arundel County to Prince George's County. The three-member Board of Public Works voted...

Inevitability and the race for governor

2013-05-30 13:18:00

The 2014 Maryland governor's race has been shaping up so far as a fight about inevitability. Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler long fostered the sense of his own lock on the job through a massive campaign war chest. Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown countered...

Janet Garrity

2013-06-06 13:08:00

Janet Virginia Garrity, who enrolled in college at age 47 and went on to earn a master's degree in social work, died of heart disease Tuesday at Brightview Assisted Living in Towson. She was 81 and lived in Salisbury. Born Janet Virginia Green in...

Doreen Bolger, Baltimore Museum of Art director, and Ted Rouse, Big City Farms chairman, share a laugh at the party. The atmosphere at Home Grown City - the annual fundraising party for the Neighborhood Design Center - was warm and fuzzy in more ways than one.

2013-06-04 00:00:00

A Prince George's County, Md. firefighter, left, gets dressed in a protective suit before going into a government mail screening facility in Hyattsville, Md., Wednesday, April 17, 2013. Police swept across the U.S.

2013-04-17 00:00:00

A Prince George's County, Md., firefighter dressed in a protective suit walks into a government mail screening facility in Hyattsville, Md., Wednesday. Police swept across the U.S.

2013-04-17 00:00:00