New Carrollton News

Metro Transit Police are looking for a missing woman who was last seen at the New Carrollton Metro station.

Maryland needs to get on track with investing stimulus dollars in transportation, according to a newly formed coalition of smart growth, business, environmental and faith groups.

It means, he says, he won't have to go to court on charges that he assaulted an officer and resisted arrest.

The Prince George's County Council last week urged state officials to get going on their end of the long-planned and controversial Purple Line.

The Prince George's County Planning Board and the District Council hosted a meeting on the New Carrollton Preliminary Transit District Development Plan and Proposed Transit District Overlay Zoning Map Amendment .

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 U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum security guard who was forced to fire last Wednesday at a white supremacist says he intends to return to his job.

Frederick County Commissioner Charles Jenkins is being asked to support a new light-rail line in Montgomery and Prince George's counties, a project he thinks could drain future dollars from improvements to I-270. Jenkins' top priority during his campaign was road improvement.

Authorities say 10-year-old Rashard Gilbert of New Carrollton was last seen running away from a barbershop in the 1900 block of North Capitol Street Northeast around 5:30 p.m. Friday.

When Rafael Lovo was only 5, he told his mother he wanted to read the newspaper.

A couple of transportation projects dear to Montgomery County may have gotten a new ally when former Montgomery County budget director Beverley K. Swaim-Staley became the state's acting transportation secretary Monday.

Organizers of a petition to put speed cameras in Maryland to a public vote felt confident they would overcome their first bureaucratic hurdle after working furiously over the weekend to collect the necessary signatures before a midnight Sunday deadline.

Strong storms rolled through the D.C. area Monday night, creating flash flooding.

A Maryland Transit Authority study recommended against building a tunnel beneath Wayne Avenue between the Silver Spring Transit Center and Mansfield Road in Silver Spring as part of the Purple Line, claiming the tunnel is not cost-effective. The MTA and Gov.

Although crime was high at four Prince George's County Metro stations last year, state transportation officials say the stations are not likely to receive security cameras.

Metro added 20 outdoor security cameras to head off crime at area rail stations, but the four stations with the highest number of crimes -- all in Maryland's Prince George's County -- weren't on the list.

A series of fights brought an abrupt end to a Sweet 16 party at a Prince George's County hotel Friday night.

Chrysler has told a bankruptcy court it plans to eliminate 789 of its dealers nationwide as part of a government mandated effort to restructure its failing business, it is reported here Thursday.

May is officially the Month of Peace in Mount Rainier, and the city kicked it off with the dedication of a peace garden at 30th Street and Arundel Road on May 3. Herbs and vegetables are now growing at the site.

By late fall Metro riders could be able to get something dry-cleaned, grab a magazine or buy a take-home meal -- all in their neighborhood Metro station.