College Park News

COLLEGE PARK, M.D., June 23 - " Scientists in Delaware say they have developed a new hydrogen storage method - carbonized chicken feather fibers - that can hold vast amounts of hydrogen, a promising but difficult to corral fuel source, and do it at a far lower cost than other hydrogen storage systems under consideration.

Route 1 development and cost-cutting were among the issues on the minds of College Park officials when they attended the Maryland Municipal League's annual convention, held Sunday to Wednesday in Ocean City.

The last time BadgerBlitz.com caught up with Michael Trotter , the 6-foot, 200-pounder had just finished his two-day stay in Madison which resulted in a scholarship offer from the University of Wisconsin.

A crash that left a bicyclist with severe injuries has College Park officials and residents convinced that greater safety measures need to be taken at the pedestrian/biker crossing on Paint Branch Parkway to prevent future accidents with far more severe results.

With the new budget year starting, the Prince George's County Fire/EMS Department is trying to do more with less.

If only university systems could clone Christine Sweigart by the tens of thousands.

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.

A 5-year-old girl has died after being found unconscious at the bottom of a public pool.

Police in Prince George's County are investigating a fatal accident involving a motorcycle in College Park this Thursday morning.

A 1973 conversation between President Nixon and evangelist Billy Graham about Jews, laden with critical references including a Biblical verse on the "synagogue of Satan," has put the aging, frail Graham back in unwelcome headlines.

Papers and secret audio recordings released today by the Nixon Presidential Library present a complicated picture of Richard Nixon as sharp-witted and paranoid, combative and compassionate, and supporting equal rights for women even as he cynically pushed for the GOP to try to recruit attractive women candidates.

Although rural populations have been deemed hard to reach, Internet-based programming is becoming a viable strategy as rural Internet access increases.

Physicists have proposed a way to get their quantum motor running. An electric motor could be built from just two atoms held in a ring by lasers, a theoretical study published online June 8 in Physical Review Letters contends.

Isaac Williams, an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Maryland, College Park, had a special group of students this spring.

A Riverdale native was named to McDaniel College's spring 2009 dean's list. Isata T. Kallon received highest honors by earning a grade point average of 3.9 or higher.

A severe thunderstorm last Wednesday night stalled cars, flooded dorms and caused two houses in the College Park area to catch fire amid the heavy rain and lightning.

Almost three years ago, then-Montgomery County Executive Douglas M. Duncan dropped out of Maryland's gubernatorial race, abandoning a chance to make history as the first governor from that county and giving Martin O'Malley a clear path to the Democratic nomination.

I have lived within 15 minutes of College Park my entire life, and, like any good college student eager to get away, I've tried to keep the realms of school and home as separate as possible.

Hyattsville Public Works employees Reggie Tolliver of Riverdale and Charles Briggs of Cheverly pick up trash Monday morning in the 3800 block of Kennedy Street in Hyattsville.

Next week's celebration of National History Day is expected to result in at least $2 million in direct spending in Prince George's County.