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Mount Rainier, Maryland is located in Prince Georges County. Zip codes in Mount Rainier, MD include 20712. More Mount Rainier information.

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Federal money set aside to renovate historic Mount Rainier structure

A longtime vacant historic building in Mount Rainier is one step closer to being renovated into an affordable-housing building, thanks to last-minute federal money.

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Tue Dec 08, 2009

WJLA

3 Arrested in Homicide in Md.

The Prince George's County police have arrested three people in connection with the homicide of Jose Alfredo Benitez that occurred on Queens Chapel Road in Mount Rainier, Maryland.

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Sun Dec 06, 2009

Examiner.com

Prince George's County police investigate two murders on Friday, third on Saturday

Prince George's County homicide detectives spent Friday night investigating the second murder of the day.

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Sat Dec 05, 2009

WJLA

Police Probe 2 Deaths, Blocks Apart

Prince George's County police are investigating two deaths that happened within five blocks of one another Friday night and early Saturday.

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Tue Nov 24, 2009

Slate

How can you tell whether someone was asleep when he committed murder?

"Rough Night?": How do you know whether someone was asleep when he strangled his wife? Tom Bartlett is a writer in Mount Rainier, Md.

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Thu Nov 19, 2009

Gazette.Net

Dining: Mount Rainier bakery focuses on sweet potato cake

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

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Tue Nov 17, 2009

The Daily Times

Grain bin in urban Maryland brings corn fuel out of boondocks

MOUNT RANIER - On a brisk fall night here, Brent Bolin fires up his corn-burning stove.

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Sun Nov 15, 2009

Gazette.net

Math educator recognized for excellence

Michael Gilchrist , the math chair at Thomas S. Stone Elementary School, works with fifth-graders Jose Majano and Carlos Penate, both 10, on math problems.

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Fri Nov 13, 2009

Gazette.net

Proposed school boundaries to be unveiled in December

Tracy Cutler, Hyattsville Middle School creative and performing arts department coordinator, stands looking over some of the overflow buildings.

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Fri Nov 06, 2009

Gazette.Net

Hearing draws critics of Intercounty Connector tolls

A small group of critics, angered by the expensive tolls proposed for the Intercounty Connector, used a public hearing in Beltsville on Wednesday to accuse Maryland Transportation Authority officials of lying.

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Wed Nov 04, 2009

The Advocate

Film premier follows expedition to top of Mt. Denison

By any measure, it was an adventure of a lifetime. Four Denison University alums flew to Alaska's Kodiak Island, chartered a bush plane to a remote area in the Aleutian Islands, hiked inland eight miles, climbed up a glacier and then to the cold, snowy summit of 7,800-foot-high Mt.

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Sat Oct 31, 2009

The Knoxville News-Sentinel

Climbing with purpose

Mount Rainier base camp. It's 11:57 p.m. The 12 a.m. alarm is about to sound. Our 10-man Climb for Captives team will rise, and the 14-hour summit attack will commence from Camp Muir to Rainier's glaciated 14,410-foot crater rim.

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Thu Oct 29, 2009

MyFoxDC

Cashier Shot at Mt. Rainier Grocery

Prince George's County Police say two men walked into the Mount Rainier Mini Grocery Store on Thursday afternoon and shot the cashier, who happens to be the 20-year-old son of the couple that owns the store.

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Gazette.net

Mobile street food vendors make last stop

Juan Martinez of Mount Rainier has a familiar routine: He arrives at work at around 11 a.m., takes phone calls, chops vegetables and prepares an array of Latin American foods - pupusas, tacos and carne asada - all within a truck.

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Sun Oct 25, 2009

The Seattle Times

Magma pool under Cascades may link Mt. Rainier, St. Helens

In Native American lore, the volcanoes of the Cascade Mountains chatted with each other like girlfriends.

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Thu Oct 22, 2009

Gazette.net

New businesses add pizzeria, coffeehouse to Mount Rainier

In a year when some small businesses in northern Prince George's County, including restaurants, bookstores, pharmacies and pet stores, have closed in part due to the recession, two small businesses are opening their doors in Mount Rainier.

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Sat Oct 10, 2009

Gazette.net

Events recognize domestic violence awareness month

Several local organizations are recognizing October as National Domestic Violence Awareness Month with events that aim to educate residents about the problem and of the resources available to fight it.

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Thu Oct 08, 2009

Backpacker

Melting Mt. Rainier?

Melting Mt. Rainier? A transplanted summit marker fools some into climate change melted the summit cap, but warming threats on the mountain are real A few weeks ago, climbing couple on Rainier thought they found the global warming coup of the century: They found the USGS summit marker on top, seemingly melted out of the ice on the summit cap.

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Wed Oct 07, 2009

Washington Business Journal

Prince George's starts Mt.Ranier planning

The Prince George's County Planning Department will kick off its community meetings for the The City of Mount Rainier Mixed-Use Town Center Zone Development Plan tonight.

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Sat Oct 03, 2009

Gazette.net

I-95 speed camera to launch today

The first speed camera in Prince George's County will start snapping photos on Interstate 95 south of Laurel starting today, state highway officials announced Wednesday.

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