Landover Hills News

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.

Prince George's County police officials have confirmed that a body was found behind Ascension Lutheran School in Landover Hills, Md.

The bells at St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church in Elkridge give Kathy Schlickenmaier an old-fashioned way of assembling her children.

The U.S. Postal Service will decide by Oct. 1 whether to close 700 hundred post offices nationwide, including one in Prince George's County - the office in Landover Hills - in a cost cutting measure.

Wal-Mart didn't respond to questions in time for today's story about the company's efforts to open a store in D.C. But Keith Morris called from Wal-Mart's Arkansas headquarters Thursday to say that although a D.C. store is in its sights there is "nothing immediately on the horizon," despite negotiations with developer Jeff Epperson for land near ...

Norman Livsey, president of the East Pines Civic Association, and Alice Bishop, president of the Templeton Knolls Civic Association, talk with Prince George's County Fire Chief Eugene A. Jones at an Aug.

A Prince George's County couple says a stray bullet came close to hitting their 10-month-old inside their home in Landover Hills Thursday night.

A Prince George's County couple says a stray bullet came close to hitting their 10-month-old inside their home in Landover Hills Thursday night.

Facing a potential $7 billion loss this fiscal year, postal officials are considering closing nearly 1,000 post offices across the country, including 13 in the D.C. metro area.

Facing a potential $7 billion loss this fiscal year, postal officials are considering closing nearly 1,000 post offices across the country, including 13 in the D.C. metro area.

Slug: CleanersGR072309Bw Leah L. Jones/The Gazette Monday, July 20, 2009 Night supervisior for the Summer Works Keys Program Darius Lee of New Carrolton, empties a bucket of water as he and group of young men clean classrooms at Berwyn Heights Elementary School.

Former Berwyn Heights Elementary School teacher Carole Swisdak is retiring after 32 years with the Prince George's County Public Schools system.

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.