Landover Hills News

Mount Rainier resident Derek Lowery, co-owner of the soon-to-be opened Spotlight Cafe in Mount Rainier, is renovating the space that used to be Artmosphere Cafe for his business.

Homes throughout Landover Hills feature prominent porches, above. Michael Walker, right, has lived in his Landover Hills home for more than 30 years.

City efforts to clean the streets after the two recent snowstorms may end up costing Bowie more than $600,000, according to City Manager David Deutsch.

Over the weekend, three men were found dead in their cars from apparent carbon monoxide poisoning, and two families were hospitalized from separate poisoning incidents in their homes, said officials Tuesday.

PRINCE GEORGE'S CO., Md. -- Officials say two families were overcome by carbon monoxide over the weekend after using a gasoline generator inside their homes because of power outages.

Firefighters were alerted to a commercial building fire this afternoon in Landover Hills.

Local Haiti relief drives are popping up in our area as ordinary citizens as well as organizations do what they can to help the earthquake victims in Haiti.

The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission has been studying ways to improve Route 450 between Veterans Highway and the BW Parkway.

Joseph Baker, a Greenbelt resident and Suitland High School student, was selected as a YoungArts finalist in voice, and will be competing in the YoungArts competition in Miami, Fla., on Jan.

Prince George's County police announced Wednesday they have arrested a suspect in the July fatal stabbing of a Temple Hills man.

County Councilwoman Andrea C. Harrison of Springdale hands out a toy Tuesday to 6-year-old Nyelle Reid of District Heights as her mother, Marisa Reid, watches during the fifth annual Toys and Turkey Give-A-Way at a Wal-Mart store in Landover Hills.

Daniel Dove is the Louisa County man arrested in Maryland for a killing in Albemarle County.

Police arrested three Prince George's County residents in connection with a weekend Mount Rainier homicide that investigators characterized as domestic-related. Officers responded to a report of a shooting at about 10:18 p.m., Dec.

Four area postal service branches that have been considered for closure will remain open, but eight others in DC remain candidates to be shut down, according to a U.S. Postal service release Friday.

The U.S. Postal Service has further trimmed its list of post offices facing possible closure and the new list spares three locations in suburban Maryland that had previously been targeted.

An arrest has been made in a six-year-old triple murder case that occurred in Landover Hills, Md.

Delectable Cakery owners Vincent Phillips and Brian Rhone , and employee Christopher Lowery show off sweet potato cake, sweet potato cupcakes and poundcake Nov.

I missed this News8 story from last week: But Wal-Mart doled out a lukewarm response to News8's correspondent: "So what is Walmart saying? A spokesperson tells us there is some interest in locating a store in D.C. Right now, the closest store is Landover Hills.

LANDOVER HILLS, Md. - Prince George's County police say a man whose naked body was found behind a church this week had been beaten and burned in an apparent act of torture.

Police made a gruesome discovery on the playground of a Landover Hills, Maryland school Monday morning around 7:30 a.m. Police identified a naked, beaten and burned body as that of 43-year-old Pedro Nelson Sanchez-Bautista of Landover Hills.