Riverdale Park News

A former Hyattsville City police officer will serve three years probation for assaulting a man with a metal baton while off-duty. Todd O. Prawdzik agreed to an Alford plea in Prince George's County District Court on Monday on the charge of second-degree assault stemming from the Jan.

A Hyattsville police officer accused of assaulting an unarmed man who had done nothing to provoke the attack has been sentenced to three years of unsupervised probation.

Longtime Riverdale Park Town Administrator Pat Prangley , who is retiring, chats Friday with town employees, including Public Works Director Leonard Addison.

North Brentwood-based nonprofit Neighborhood Design Center held an awards ceremony May 20 to honor volunteers and community clients who helped with community revitalization projects in Prince George's County.

A Hyattsville store specializing in crafts by Prince George's County artists will close by the end of May, just eight months after it opened.

Riverdale Park's proposed fiscal 2010 budget allocates money for the town's reserves, as well as ends the current freeze on overtime pay and the need for town-wide employee furloughs.

Submitted by Ted Williams on Thu, 05/14/2009 - 21:52. For Immediate Release: May 14, 2009 Contact: Jeff Ruch 265-7337 Teresa Chambers, the U.S. Park Police Chief removed by the Bush administration for speaking out about security gaps on the Capitol's monuments, parks and parkways, today speaks before Congress.

Police in Prince George's County say a man is dead after being struck by a vehicle early Saturday morning in Riverdale Park.

Riverdale Park and North Brentwood residents elected new members to their respective town councils in uncontested races during Monday's municipal election.

RIVERDALE PARK, Md. -- Jerry Engle claims he watched as three firefighters set a vacant house on fire in early 2008, in Riverdale Park, Maryland.

RIVERDALE PARK, Md. -- Prince George's County fire investigators executed search warrants at the Riverdale Volunteer Fire Department as an arson investigation targeting a "handful" of county volunteer firefighters' advances.

The Riverdale Park election to fill the mayor's seat and all six of the Town Council seats will be held from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. May 4 at Town Hall, at 5008 Queensbury Road.

Evail Moroy of Laurel picks trash out of Riverside Park's stream in Riverdale Park on Saturday during Earth Day Cleanup.

RIVERDALE PARK, Md. -- Montgomery County Fire & Rescue Service spokesman Pete Piringer confirms his department's fire investigators are currently assisting Prince George's County and ATF agents in the investigation of a series of vacant house fires in Prince George's County.

RIVERDALE PARK, Md. - Several volunteer firefighters in Prince George's County have been suspended as investigators look into whether six recent arsons may have been set by those in charge of putting out fires, sources tell ABC 7 News.

Michael D. Herman, chief of staff to Prince George's County Executive Jack B. Johnson , is considering challenging Sen.

The Hyattsville election to fill one of two City Council seats in each ward will be held May 4 from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. Polling locations are: for Ward 1, the Hyattsville Municipal Building at 4310 Gallatin Street, for Wards 2 and 5, Magruder Park's recreation building at 3911 Hamilton Street; for Ward 3, the University Christian Church at 6800 ...

Metrobus passengers escaped serious injury on March 26 after a MARC train was involved in a collision with two buses.

UPDATE: The northbound Camden Line line towards Baltimore is moving again. The line had been shut down since around 4 p.m. after a Marc Train collided with a bus.

It began when a Metrobus became stuck on the tracks. As the driver tried the free the bus, the MARC train came along and struck the back of the bus, which then hit a second Metrobus.