Beltsville News

A The Maryland Department of Transportation said Friday its position hasn't changed in determining a location for a train-truck depot despite assurances from Sen.

There has been a lot of research, recently, showing how global change - especially warming - can alter the habitat and preferred range of marine and terrestrial species.

GAITHERSBURG, Md., May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Human Circuit, Inc. announced today that it will begin a new, High Definition upgrade initiative at the ATF Fire Research Lab in Beltsville, Maryland.

The data center tour is scheduled on May 31st, 2012 from 2:00 to 5:00 PM and will be led by Deepak Jain, president of AiNET.

A group of Philadelphia Police Officers were among the honorees at the Philadelphia Fire Department's 2012 Awards Day Ceremony.A A Mayor Michael Nutter, Fire Commissioner Lloyd Ayers, Deputy Police Commissioner John Gaittens, and other dignitaries attended the awards ceremony held at the Fire Academy Friday morning.

Followers of Jainism have worshiped in India for thousands of years, but the Jain community here in D.C. is just over two decades old.

Holly Nunn/The Gazette James E. Duckworth Regional student Brandon Ayers , 8, of College Park gets help Friday from his peer mentor, Bianca Falby, 10, a fourth-grader at Beltsville Academy during Special Olympics Challenge Day at the Beltsville school.

On 2.75 acres in Beltsville, Md., just 30 minutes from D.C., the City Orchard is taking root with 1,000 trees and bushes planted to support the Bread for the City's food pantry.

Greenbelt City Council will hold a regular meeting Monday at 8 p.m. in the council room on the second floor of theA Municipal Building .

The sounds of classic rock tunes mixed with grill smoke wafting through downtown Hyattsville yesterday, as area residents gathered for the season's first Outback Steakhouse Summer Jam in front of the Hyattsville Municipal Building on Gallatin Street.A Providing entertainment for the evening was the Fairfax, Va.

Organically grown fruits, such as apples, produce yields close to those of conventional farming, but organically grown vegetables are lagging.

To support new technologies ranging from a dried-urine field test to a system to disable blasting caps, a half-dozen Maryland companies have received a total of $457,154 from the Maryland Technology Development Corp.

A Since the beginning of March 2012, the Carroll County Sheriff's Office and the Howard County Police Department have responded to numerous daytime burglaries in which suspects entered victims' homes through rear unsecured/unlocked doors, according to a news release.

The Maryland Technology Development Corp. has awarded $460,000 in grants to six small businesses focused on developing technology for national security.

A common class of pesticide is causing problems for honeybees and bumblebees, important species already in trouble, two studies suggest.