Seven firefighters were hospitalized after a house fire in Riverdale, Maryland, authorities said.
A customer inside a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Landover, Maryland, was killed Monday night after a vehicle left the road and drove through the large glass windows of the business, a fire official told CNN.
A former top elected official for Prince George's County, Maryland, was sentenced to more than seven years in prison and fined $100,000 Tuesday after pleading guilty to federal extortion and evidence-tampering charges.
The top elected official in Prince George's County, Maryland, for the past eight years was indicted Monday on a series of charges including extortion, bribery and evidence tampering.
Seven Maryland high schoolers fell ill suddenly Thursday after eating brownies, a county fire official said.
As FBI neared, Prince Georges County Executive Jack Johnson allegedly told his wife to flush a $100,000 kickback check.
A suburban Washington county official at the center of an FBI investigation into years of kickbacks says he is innocent and that the facts will prove it.
Panicked as the FBI closed in Friday morning, Prince Georges County Executive Jack Johnson and his wife Leslie raced to find a $100,000 check for an alleged kickback and flush it down the toilet.
President Barack Obama interrupted a campaign speech twice on Thursday to seek help for people in the audience who collapsed.
President Obama seeks help for people who fainted during his speech in Bowie, Maryland.
Prince George's County, Maryland police charged two people in the drug-related killings of two children and two adults.
Two people were charged Saturday in "very disturbing" drug-related killings of two young children and two adult relatives outside Washington D.C.
Surveillance video shows a man leaving a Hyattsville, Maryland, parking garage where an explosive device went off Tuesday, Prince George's County Public Safety Director Vernon Herron said.
A Prince George's County, Maryland, police officer has been suspended, and prosecutors are investigating an incident -- caught on video -- in which officers wielding nightsticks beat a University of Maryland student, officials said Tuesday.
One officer has been suspended after video surfaced of police beating a college student. WJLA reports.
Police continued their search Thursday for a fourth suspect wanted in connection with a shooting spree that killed four people and wounded five others in southern Washington D.C.
Cleveland Cavaliers guard Delonte West was arrested Thursday after officers pulled him over for speeding on a motorcycle while carrying two loaded handguns and a loaded shotgun in a guitar case.
Rhode Island will be open for business Friday.
Firefighters are feeling the pinch during these tough economic times, but are cutbacks putting lives on the line?
Furloughed firefighters. Shuttered fire stations. Fewer rescuers on pump and ladder trucks.
Eight firefighters and a gas employee were injured Thursday when a gas leak at a strip mall exploded in Forestville, Maryland, officials from the Prince Georges County Fire Department said.
Eight people, including seven firefighters, have been seriously injured in a gas explosion at a Maryland strip mall.
CNN's Kate Bolduan reports on the increasing number of homeless families.
Sheila Wash greets her son and daughter, 13-year-old Cecil and 9-year-old Sheliah, every day when their school buses arrive "home."
Federal officials have opened a civil rights investigation into a police narcotics raid on the home of a Maryland mayor in which police burst in without knocking and shot the mayor's two dogs to death.
Mayor Cheye Calvo talks to CNN's Don Lemon about the night police stormed his home and shot his dogs during a raid.
A Maryland mayor is asking the federal government to investigate why SWAT team members burst into his home without knocking and shot his two dogs to death in an investigation into a drug smuggling scheme.
The Berwyn Heights, Maryland, mayor says excessive force was used when a SWAT team raided his house. WJLA reports.
The investigation into the strangulation of a man held in solitary confinement at a Maryland jail has widened beyond the seven correctional officers who had access to him, a state government source familiar with the investigation said Wednesday.
The family of a man who was killed in jail are demanding answers and an investigation.
A prisoner killed in a Maryland county jail on Sunday was a victim of "vigilante justice," Prince George's County Chief Executive Jack Johnson said.
Business was brisk at polling places in Virginia and Maryland on Tuesday, where primaries could answer key questions in the Democratic and Republican nomination races.
I-Reporter William Bernstein Jr. reports from three Virginia Beach polling stations about Tuesday's Potomac Primaries.
A prisoner who overpowered five security guards at a suburban hospital, took their weapons, shot a driver and then stole several cars has been shot and killed by police, authorities said Wednesday.
Maryland State Police spokesman Greg Shipley describes how an inmate escaped from a hospital.
A crowd of frustrated parents gathered on a chilly Saturday morning outside Prince George's County Circuit Court to comply with an order from the school system to have their children vaccinated -- or else.
In one school system, parents who don't vaccinate their children may face jail time. CNN's Gary Nurenberg reports.
Four of six hostages from a foiled robbery were safe and one suspect was in custody Wednesday night, but a second suspect still held two people -- including a 7-year-old girl -- in a carryout restaurant in Chillum, police said.
Ten students were injured Friday when a white van lost control and ran into a school bus stop in Silver Spring, Maryland, according to Prince George's County Fire and Rescue spokesman Mark Brady.
A suspect arrested Wednesday morning in connection with the D.C. serial arson investigation has confessed to at least 33 fires that had been linked to the probe, and to some others that had not been, a senior law enforcement official told CNN.
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