Prince George's County
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Prince George's County saw high rate of police-involved shootings this year
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There have been 15 police-involved shootings in Prince George's County this year - a number that authorities say the community should be concerned about.
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Eric Jerome Brown charged in murder of Mount Rainier teenager
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Authorities say that they arrested Eric Jerome Brown of Northeast D.C. on Saturday, just a day after 16-year-old Dontae John Cook was found shot and killed in an apartment building.
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Dontae John Cook shot, killed in Mount Rainier
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Prince George's County Police are searching for a suspect in the murder of a teenager in Mount Rainier on Friday night.
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William W. Hall Academy closed due to water main break
CommentOfficials say that students at William W. Hall Academy in Capitol Heights will have class today at Suitland High School.
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Police shooting in Capitol Heights turns fatal
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Police shot and killed a man in Prince George’s County Wednesday afternoon.
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Police look for Good Samaritans who helped in traffic accident, police shooting
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Prince George's County police are looking for two Good Samaritans who helped with a traffic accident that led to police fatally shooting a man.
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Prince George's County slot machines could fund projects, Baker says
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Prince George's County Executive Rushern Baker III says he is open to adding a slot-machine gambling in the county as a way to help generate funding for new projects.
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Illegal theft ring bust in Prince George's County spanned three states
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Prince George's County police shut down an illegal theft ring that was stealing tires, rims and vehicles and spanned Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
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Leslie Johnson sentenced to one year, one day in prison
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A chapter in Prince George’s County tale of corruption came to a close Friday when former county councilwoman Leslie Johnson was sentenced to a little more than a year in prison.
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Man wearing spider web mask robs BB&T in Fort Washington
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Police are looking for a man who wore a black spider web mask while robbing a bank in Fort Washington, Md. earlier today.
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Jack Johnson sentenced to more than 7 years
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Jack Johnson’s fall from Prince George’s County Executive to felon was complete Tuesday after a judge sentenced him to a little over seven years in prison.
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Jack Johnson facing sentencing Tuesday
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Johnson's defense said that sending him to prison would be a death sentence because Johnson had developed Parkinson's disease.
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Jack Johnson timeline: Events leading up to Tuesday's sentencing
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It has been more than a year since Jack and Leslie Johnson were arrested. Now, on the former county executive's sentencing day, here's a look back at how we got to where we are in regards to both of them.
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PG County police cadet Khaled Rasuli, Jason Romero, 9, unlikely friends
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A Prince George's County police cadet and a 9-year-old boy became unlikely friends after the cadet, Khaled Rasuli, saved the boy's life using the Heimlich maneuver at a luncheon in Greenbelt.
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Community lends money, support to family devastated by fire
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Hyattsville residents came together Thursday to support a family after a house fire killed three family members, including a 6-year-old boy.
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Baltimore police chase ends in Prince George's County
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A police chase of tractor trailer cab that started in Baltimore City ended in Prince George’s County Wednesday evening.
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Frederick Scott, murder suspect, mistakenly released from custody
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Police say a clerical error led to Frederick Scott being released earlier this month. But a Department of Corrections spokesperson tells ABC7 they have the paperwork showing Scott had a bond of $75,000, that he posted it, and he was released. He was back in custody Tuesday.
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Sunday Lewisdale house fire claims two more victims
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Two more people who were inside a home in Lewisdale when it caught fire Sunday morning have died, officials say.
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