University Park News

A Russett Cub Scout's question on an outing to the Laurel Museum has led the Laurel Historical Society to create a new patch depicting the old mill boarding house that houses the museum.

Jacqueline Bradley Chacon, an attorney from University Park, will run unopposed for the Town Council's vacant Ward 7 seat, according to town officials.

Eight county firefighters suffered minor injuries Sunday night while battling a house fire in College Heights Estates, according to Prince George's County fire officials.

D.C. officials are spending nearly $1.4 million more to prevent more escapes from the New Beginnings youth rehabilitation center Officials announced that they are shifting $1.36 million within the Department of Real Estate Services "for construction tasks related to the completion of the New Beginnings facility." A spokesman for the mayor says most ...

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, Md. - Eight firefighters were injured and a family displaced after a serious blaze at a single-family home in Prince George's County.

Greenbelt Elementary fifth-graders who received a 3.0 GPA and higher for the first quarter are: Mark Albright, Raya Ameir, Jonathan Bertiz, Andrew Dabbs, Winter Holmes, Deja Jackson, Salena Johnson, Anna-Kay Murray, Joseph Natoli, Patrick Nelson, Brian O'Neil, Jessica Pandohie, Forest Rawley, Amari Welch, Ruth White, Mira Willson, Norah Awad, ...

University Park's town Christmas tree will be a lot more eco-friendly this year, and that won't be just because of its 1,000 new, energy-saving LED lights.

Children from University Baptist Church in College Park who collected more than $900 in pennies for the poor include Jakobe Wiggins, 11; Jonah Ramsey-Lucas, 5; Samuel Ramsey-Lucas, 7; and Joanna Burns, 9, all of Hyattsville and Matthew McIntyre, 11, of College Park; and Jacob Burns, 11; Noah Ramsey-Lucas, 11; and Shawn Turonis, 11, all of ...

University Park officials have scheduled a special election for Dec. 29 to fill the town's vacant Ward 7 council seat.

University Park Town Councilman Ed DeSaussure resigned Monday night and criticized the town's handling of several financial issues, including its enrollment of employees in the state pension system.

Taylor Keen and a group of volunteers from the University of Maryland, College Park, conducted a tree count for the town of University Park.

Reese Madsen Jr. of University Park completed the 30th annual Pan-Massachusetts Challenge bike ride Aug.

For kindergartners at University Park Elementary School, their first day on Aug.

Rendering of a proposed 33-story tower to be built at the corner of Belcrest Road and Toledo Terrace as part of the Belcrest Plaza Development.

Banks expanded at a breathtaking pace over the past five years, adding more than 10,000 full-service branches, but barely 1 in 10 were in inner-city, minority neighborhoods, another sign the financial spending spree skipped over substantial parts of the country.

John Townshend of University Park has been named dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Despite annual town clean-ups and environmentally conscious signage, litter and murky waters remain a common sight in University Park's Wells Run stream.

Nancy Schickner , the new principal at University Park Elementary School, hugs incoming third-grader Miranda Moss, 8, in the school's office Tuesday.

Sen. James C. Rosapepe of College Park is accepting applications for the state's legislative scholarship program.

For the last six years, the members of Wallace Presbyterian Church had been awaiting their promised land.