Hundreds of mourners filled a hilltop church Friday for the funeral of five family members slain in a murder-suicide.
Maryland guard Greivis Vasquez will enter his name in the NBA draft, but because he has not hired an agent could return for his senior year with the Terrapins.
A Maryland father who shot his wife and three children to death and then killed himself struggled with depression, had $450,000 in debt and nearly decapitated his kids after they had died, Frederick County Sheriff Charles Jenkins said Tuesday.
A man who killed his wife, their three young children and himself in their northwest Maryland home had a hard time adjusting to his new manager's job for a railroad and it was causing him stress, according a blog entry his wife posted last month.
As the Louisville Cardinals circled around to cut down the nets for the first time, the scoreboard clock still showed one-tenth of a second remaining.
Maryland lawmakers are thinking maybe it's time to find a way to scrub "Northern scum" — and a few other sensitive pre-Civil War phrases — from the official state song.
This truly will be the last home game for Maryland seniors Kristi Toliver and Marissa Coleman, the lone members of the winningest class in school history.
Maryland's opening game in the NCAA tournament can best be summed up by the halftime score: Kristi Toliver 23, Dartmouth 23.
Memphis didn't need a record-setting performance from Roburt Sallie in this one.
Maryland never let California get going from long range. Now the Terps are back in the second round of the NCAA tournament.
In an online Spanish language chat room, people from all over the East Coast seek tips on how to get driver's licenses in Maryland even though they don't live there.
Jon Scheyer scored 22 points and Duke rode a 12-2 second-half run to beat Maryland 67-61 on Saturday and earn a spot in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament championship game.
With every Wake Forest miss, the Maryland Terrapins got a little closer to the NCAA tournament.
Eric Hayes scored a career-high 21 points, including six free throws in the final 2:08, and Maryland took control with a late 11-0 run to beat North Carolina State 74-69 in the ACC tournament on Thursday night.
Marisa Coleman had 28 points and 15 rebounds, Kristie Toliver added 24 points and No. 4 Maryland captured its first Atlantic Coast Conference title in 20 years with a 92-89 overtime victory over No. 8 Duke on Sunday.
Mamadi Diane hit a tie-breaking 3-pointer with 39 seconds remaining to give Virginia a 68-63 victory over Maryland on Saturday in the regular-season finale for both teams.
Marissa Coleman scored 29 points and No. 4 Maryland ended North Carolina's dominance of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament, beating the 11th-ranked Tar Heels 95-84 on Saturday in the semifinals.
Al-Farouq Aminu had 16 points and a career-high 14 rebounds, Jeff Teague scored 17 and No. 10 Wake Forest dominated the paint in a 65-63 victory over on Tuesday night.
Greivis Vasquez scored 21 of his 33 points in the second half to help Maryland beat North Carolina State 71-60 on Sunday night.
This Duke-Maryland game was far closer than the previous matchup and much more indicative of one of college basketball's great rivalries.
Crushed by 41 points in its first encounter this season against Duke, resurgent Maryland carries momentum and the thirst for revenge into the rematch Wednesday.
Greivis Vasquez recorded Maryland's first triple-double since 1987, and the Terrapins rallied from a 16-point deficit to shock No. 3 North Carolina 88-85 in overtime Saturday, ending the Tar Heels' 10-game winning streak.
Marissa Coleman scored 23 points and Lynetta Kizer had a career-high 22 points with 10 rebounds to help No. 9 Maryland win its sixth straight game in an 87-79 victory over Georgia Tech on Thursday night.
Trevor Booker had 11 points and 14 rebounds to lead No. 13 Clemson to a 93-64 victory over Maryland on Tuesday night.
The Prince George's County Executive's Office and the Prince George's Volunteer Center kicked off National Volunteer Week on Friday April 17, with a community-wide Affair of the Heart Gala and Silent Auction honoring Volunteers of the Year at the University of Maryland Univ …
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Prince George's County First Lady, Leslie Johnson Kicks Off Annual Women's Business and Wellness Conference
The Metro board voted 5 to 1 to avert all but a handful of Metrobus service cuts yesterday by tapping a rainy-day fund to close a $13.6 million shortfall in next year's $1.3 billion operating budget....
Maryland transportation officials are proposing a deal with Prince George's County that would allow the government to keep nine endangered Metrobus routes in the county running for at least another year.
Woodlawn resident Jacques Chevalier II is well-known for making controversial and often insulting statements about public officials, but it wasn't his comments at a Prince George's County Council meeting that drew the most attention — instead, it was the chairwoman's response.
Firefighters at the Brandywine Volunteer Fire Department are resisting plans by Prince George's County to build a new fire station along Brandywine Road and have begun circulating a petition that asks for the current station to be rehabbed, saying that a move would increase respo …
Campbell, who lives in Princes George's County, was the main speaker at the group's annual banquet....
A Baltimore pastor who worked with developmentally disabled people was charged Friday with befriending a blind and disabled man in his care, then paying a hit man $50,000 in church funds for an execution so he could collect life insurance money.
Amid the furloughs, salary freezes and job cuts in store for Prince George's County employees, the county's next budget includes pay raises for a select group: County Executive Jack B. Johnson and the nine members of the County Council.
On the night of Feb. 4, four Prince George's County firefighters found themselves in a Seat Pleasant neighborhood that seemed like a war zone.
Approximately 350 to 400 people joined the walk-a-thon at Watkins Park in Upper Marlboro, for the March of Dimes march for preterm babies in Prince George's County, which has the highest rate of babies born prematurely, primarily to Black mothers.
An investigation into whether volunteer firefighters set six blazes in vacant homes in Prince George's County extends beyond the Riverdale fire station and includes a Montgomery County career firefighter, according to two sources familiar with the probe.
The wide variety of habitats in Prince George's County — from the ribbon-thin green corridors that cut through its urban core to wide swaths of wetland in the south — provide an ideal environment for bird enthusiasts to roost.
For years, environmentalists in the county have been working to reduce our environmental impact. Often, the county government's response has been, "Yes, we want to go green, but we don't have the money to do it."
Prince George's County Council members voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a site plan for a new retail, office and residential center in Glenarden after a last-minute appeal.
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The National Children's Museum on Wednesday unveiled plans for its building, to be designed by the architectural firm Pelli Clarke Pelli.
Free Stater Chris Haley -- yep, that's the nephew of Alex Haley of Roots fame -- has discovered that a branch of his family hails from Scotland....
The recently enacted Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act is in keeping with the spirit of our nation by making it easier for Americans to volunteer for national service, a hallmark of our country. This legislation was named in honor of Sen. Ted Kennedy.
A handful of volunteer firefighters in Riverdale has been suspended in connection with an investigation into six fires that have been deliberately set in vacant houses in Prince George's County during the last two months, a source with knowledge of the probe said yesterday.
The Prince George's County Board of Education approved a plan last night to reshape attendance zones for 70 elementary and middle schools in the county's southwestern quadrant, affecting where more than 13,000 students will go to school in August.
The board of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission is still looking into the circumstances and outcome of discrimination complaints against the candidate whom the county executives in Montgomery and Prince George's nominated last month to be the water and sewer utilities ge …
Rep. Frank M. Kratovil Jr., a first-term Democrat representing Republican-leaning eastern Maryland, is eager for word to spread about millions in stimulus money that is going to roads, sewer upgrades, health clinics, schools, police and rural development in his district.
Smokers with high levels of two chemicals in their urine were more likely than others in a study to get lung cancer, a finding that may lead to a new test to predict risk in time to prevent or treat the disease. More Articles