Bowie News

'); } BOWIE, Md. -- Brian Roberts returned to the field on Wednesday night, playing three uneventful innings of a Minor League game on a quiet late-spring evening.

The Bowie City Council voted unanimously Monday night to sell an acre of surplus land for $25,000 to the developers of Harmony Place, a planned complex of 286 high-end apartments near Bowie Town Center.

Bowie teen Noor Tagouri has much to be proud of. A 4.0 grade point average, a long list of volunteer activities, numerous academic achievements, and on Thursday, she adds one more: youngest graduate to deliver the student commencement address at Prince George's Community College .

A In an effort to save around $5 million dollars from the budget, 34 Prince George's County Public Schools will change their bell times to combine some high school and middle school bus routes, reported the Gazette .

The City of Bowie is holding its regular mayor and council meeting tonight, May 21, where they will be voting on several issues, including the fiscal year 2013 budget and the adoption of a Capital Improvement Plan for fiscal years 2013-2018. A new temporary animal shelter is something that won't be included in the new budget.

Prince George's County Police are investigating a three-car accident in Bowie, MD, Friday morning that lead to a woman's death, according to The Gazette.

Mama Cocoa's Delights owner and Patch blogge r Tamarra Thomas was honored by the Bowie Chamber of Commerce last week as the city's Small Business of the Year, reported the Gazette .

BOWIE, Md. -- A 21- year-old woman is dead after a multi-car accident on Route 197 at Route 50 on Friday morning.

Looking for an evening of patriotic music and entertainment? The 257th Army Band is holding a free concert on Monday, May 21 at 7:30 p.m. at the Bowie Center for the Performing Arts .

A three-vehicle crash on MD 197 in Bowie has left one woman dead and two other people hospitalized early Friday morning.

Commercial Armed Robbery On May 12 at 10:53 p.m. officers responded to the Shell Gas Station at the 13000 block of Annapolis Road in response to an armed robbery.

This beautiful swallowtail butterfly was photographed in the Arnold Wildlife Habitat, located in the Bowie backyard of Maria Arnold and her family, feeding on the nectar of a mountain mint plant.

Some police officers in Maryland will be out Thursday giving cash to drivers wearing their seatbelts.

It would have been understandable if homeowners in Fairwood, a development of nearly 2,000 homes just outside the Bowie city limits, gave up after learning last year that plans for a new elementary school in their neighborhood were canceled.

Celebrate Bowie's history this Sunday at the 44th Annual Heritage Day. Multiple locations will be hosting events in celebration of the city's rich history on Sunday, May 20.

Although the City of Bowie Town Hall currently houses a short-term animal holding facility for pets who have been separated from their owners, a local group called Bowie CLAW wants the town to construct its own short-term animal shelter, separate from the town hall facilities.

Mark Brady/Prince George's County Fire/EMS An adult woman whose floor mat got stuck to her gas pedal drove into a light pole and crashed into a store front at the Bowie Town Center on Monday afternoon, according to Bowie Police.

A Mercedes was driven through a parking space into a front brick faade, knocking over a light pole, in Bowie, Md., Monday afternoon, police said.

Prince George's County police are investigating a string of commercial armed robberies in the county over the weekend and are seeking the public's help identifying the two gunmen.

It's almost Mother's Day, which means if you actually planned ahead you either have flowers headed to mom's door or are taking her out to a meal.