Landover Hills News

The dedication of the Gwendolyn Britt Senior Activity Center in North Brentwood will take place at 10 a.m. July 18 at the center, which is located at 4009 Wallace Road.

Reporting from Washington -- Gabby Ornelas, a former teller at the giant Bank of America Corp., remembers the training sessions.

Police are investigating a series of armed robberies and attempted car jackings in Hyattsville and Landover Hills.

District Heights public works supervisor Brian Edwards said five to six employees and a couple of hours are necessary to tackle the waist-high grass of one city foreclosed property, hours that could go toward picking up city litter.

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.

Shortly after the rains of Tropical Storm Hanna tore a massive breach in the towpath near Old Angler's Inn, the C&O Canal Trust established the Towpath Repair Fund to raise $100,000 in private funds to match $101,000 of National Park Service money.

Police reported a homicide in Landover Hills early Thursday morning. Around 3:10 a.m., Prince George's County police reported to the 4100 block of 70th Avenue in response to a report of a shooting.

Jack Bartels and his wife, Darlene Bartels, are retiring from Ascension Lutheran School in Landover Hills after a combined 70 years of service at the school.

The calls flooded in as the flash flooding started. Cars stall in high water. Lightning strikes a home.

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A Silver Spring man has been charged with arson for a fire set at a vacant Landover Hills home last year.

Early Monday morning, a fire station and fire department administration building were both locked down while police searched for four suspects on the loose in Landover Hills.

Ascension Lutheran School students Monique Barnes, 10, of Bowie; Shannon Turner, 11, of Hyattsville; Ja'mir Prosper, 9, of Springdale; and Aaron Lowe, 10, of Lanham rehearse the student-written opera "Maryland, My Maryland - A Voyage of Adventures" on Monday at the Landover Hills school.

A car shot through the front of a store in a Landover Hills shopping center, shattering glass, ripping out the facade and leaving tenants asking why does it keep happening.

When her plane touched down in the Gambia in 2007, Bowie's Alysia Flynn knew she was in for more than just a volunteer trip when she saw a row of cows outside the airport instead of cars.

A fire in a Glenn Dale townhouse caused an estimated $500,000 in fire loss, injured an adult male occupant, several pets being unaccounted for and three families are displaced from their homes.

More than 120 small-business owners and Prince George's County officials grilled Sen.

A Crofton-based bank last week became the first Maryland bank shut down by federal regulators since 1992.

Former Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele won a sixth ballot victory today to become the first African-American chairman of the Republican National Committee .

Threatened with a government takeover, officials with Crofton-based Suburban Federal Savings Bank said they now have a buyer ready to step in to avoid what would be the first takeover of a Maryland bank since ...