Mount Rainier News

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.