Beltsville News

Sen. James C. Rosapepe of College Park is accepting applications for the state's legislative scholarship program.

North Prince George's County residents are pleased the County Council is considering strengthening zoning and licensing regulations on adult bookstores and video stores.

In Beltsville, a colony of feral cats has slowly been brought under control by human hands.

Agricultural Research Service scientists have sequenced the genome of an invasive parasite called Nosema ceranae that can kill honey bees and is one of the many suspects in the mysterious ailment known as colony collapse disorder .

Some roads can be killers. But not so much in Maryland. At least compared with some neighboring states.

The state General Assembly may have adjourned April 13, but the District 21 team is still meeting with their constituents to address their concerns.

The College Park Committee for a Better Environment honored David Rogner, a recent University of Maryland graduate, with a Green Award in recognition of his environmental activism.

Window Tint and Cooling Bills The initial investment in window film isn't really cheap, but it will pay for itself the first year.

A Baltimore County judge has dismissed a $4.3 million lawsuit filed by more than 100 former members of an Ethiopian church against its board of trustees after the plaintiffs failed to respond to discovery requests.

See Harry Jackson , a Beltsville, MD preacher who is trying desperately to gain national recognition by forcing the District of Columbia's residents to vote on the issue of same-sex marriage, and has reportedly turned to the courts to force the DCBOEE to approve his anti-gay marriage voter referendum.

A Beltsville woman pleaded guilty June 11 to selling more than $70,000 in counterfeit DVDs.

The D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics has rejected a proposed referendum that would subject the District's move to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions to a citywide vote.

The Board of Elections for Washington, D.C. has found that a proposed referendum to overturn a D.C. marriage recognition law fails to pass muster.

The D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics has rejected an effort to hold a referendum on whether Washington should recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere.

Five Prince George's high schools were named to the America's Top Public High Schools list by Newsweek magazine for 2009.

For those who have driven past Contee and Van Dusen roads wondering when construction crews will begin work on the new Beltsville/Laurel Senior Center on the grounds of Laurel Regional Hospital, officials overseeing the project said a few minor legal details still have to be worked out on the project.

AFP/File Honey bees walk on a moveable comb hive at the Bee Research Laboratory, in Beltsville, Maryland in 2007.

That's according to Agricultural Research Service plant pathologist Bret Cooper at the agency's Soybean Genomics and Improvement Laboratory in Beltsville, Md., and collaborators at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md.

ARS: Bee-killing parasite's genome sequenced Jun. 5, 2009 Agricultural Research Service scientists have sequenced the genome of an invasive parasite called Nosema ceranae that can kill honey bees and is one of the many suspects in the mysterious ailment known as colony collapse disorder.

Seventh-grader Darius Cortez of Beltsville gets tutored by eighth-graders Devin Mayo of Upper Marlboro and Ginamarie Shrader of Beltsville on May 27 at Martin Luther King Jr.