Greenbelt News

First-grade students in Natalie Ewalt's class act out the story of "Little Beaver and the Echo" on Oct.

This activity report is provided by the Greenbelt Police Department as a public service to the community and is not a complete listing of all events and crime reported.

Emmett Jordan finds out from incumbent mayor Judith Davis that he is Greenbelt's new mayor pro tem at the Greenbelt Fire Department, where people were getting results.

Clean Currents, an energy company in Maryland, Washington, D.C. and Virginia, donated $1,200 to the Greenbelt Community Foundation on behalf of Greenbelt Homes Inc.

Greenbelt has elected its first black council member, a victory that followed expansion of the council amid complaints the Prince George's County town had not had minority representation in its 71-year-history. Emmett V. Jordan was among the seven candidates elected to the seven-member council.

Visit SPACE.com to explore a new Science feature each Tuesday. This is an artist's concept of a quasar embedded in the center of a galaxy.

Seen from our planet, the view of Saturn's rings during equinox is extremely foreshortened and limited.

Jeremiah Sutton, 7, of Greenbelt; Tasia Lewis, 11, of Laurel; Anthony Oates, 11, of Greenbelt and Nina Walker, 12, of Landover play a game of musical chairs Saturday during the fall festival held at the Springhill Lake Recreation Center in Greenbelt.

Every year, scientists learn something new about the inner workings of lightning.

Another typhoon in the northern Philippines really is something to be scared about, and Mirinae is expected to make landfall there in the mid-morning hours on Halloween, October 31.

Many of us have been rescued from unfamiliar territory by directions from a Global Positioning System navigator.

Dear Heloise: My sister recently had a pan of grease catch fire, and some things became rather apparent.

Prince George's County firefighters work to rescue residents trapped by a fire Saturday morning at the Empirian Village apartments in Greenbelt.

This Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite 3-D image of Tropical Storm Neki's clouds on Oct.

Seen from our planet, the view of Saturn's rings during equinox is extremely foreshortened and limited.

However, once approximately every 15 years, night falls over the entire visible ring system for about four days.

An environmental consultant hired by developers of a proposed West Virginia wind farm told a federal judge he believes the project won't harm the endangered Indiana bat.

Don Creveling , an archaeologist with the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, and Arnold Norden, a paleontology hobbyist from Greenbelt, on Monday look over the South Laurel site where in 1991 Norden discovered a5-foot-long dinosaur bone.

Neighbors demand answers and are on high alert after two men were shot in the Empirian Village apartment complex in Greenbelt West last week.

NASA technology will now be available to the medical community to help in the diagnosis and prediction of syndromes that affect the brain, such as stroke, dementia, and traumatic brain injury.