New section of Intercounty Connector opens
BY: Associated Press GAITHERSBURG — Approximately 11 miles of a new toll road linking Maryland’s Montgomery and Prince George’s counties is opening. The section of the Intercounty Connector opening Tuesday runs from Georgia Avenue to just east of I-95. The first seven miles of the $2.55 billion roadway opened to in February. It runs from the Interstate 270 [...] |
Laurel Mall to be demolished for new town center
BY: Associated Press LAUREL — Prince George’s County officials are planning to demolish a dilapidated mall in Laurel to make way for a new town center. The Washington Examiner reports that developer Greenberg Gibbons plans to tear down Laurel Mall on Route 1 and rebuild it as retail and residential development similar to the Annapolis Towne Centre and [...] |
Next month: Laurel to Gaithersburg in 17 minutes
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Investigators reveal evidence in killing of law grad from Laurel
BY: Associated Press ![]() MACON, Ga. — Investigators have revealed at a court hearing what led them to charge a law school graduate with the killing and dismemberment of his classmate. Macon police detective David Patterson testified on Friday that police found a bloody hacksaw linked to Stephen McDaniel as well as master keys to an apartment where Lauren [...] |
Ex-waiter in Laurel charged in credit card scam
BY: Associated Press UPPER MARLBORO — Authorities say a former waiter at a TGI Friday’s restaurant in Laurel has been indicted on charges he copied and sold the numbers of 73 credit cards. Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Angela Alsobrooks said in a news conference that 21-year-old Brian Keith Adams of Elkridge was indicted Thursday on 16 charges, [...] |
Warrant: Hacksaw found at slain law grad’s complex
BY: Associated Press MACON, Ga. — Authorities in Macon say a hacksaw has been recovered at the apartment complex where a recent Mercer University law school graduate was found slain and dismembered and where both she and the classmate accused of killing her lived. Stephen Mark McDaniel is charged with murder in the death of Lauren Giddings, a [...] |
Classmate charged in killing of Georgia law grad from Laurel
BY: Associated Press MACON, Ga. — A 25-year-old Georgia law school graduate has been accused of killing a fellow classmate who was discovered dismembered outside the apartment building where they lived. Stephen Mark McDaniel was charged with murder in the death of Lauren Giddings, a 27-year-old from Laurel, Md., who was last seen after a night out with [...] |
Aquilent gets IT contract for Solar Decathlon
BY: Daily Record Staff Aquilent Inc. of Laurel, a provider of Web-based services to the public sector, said it received an IT services and support contract for Solar Decathlon 2011, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. Aquilent is tasked with analyzing, designing, implementing and maintaining specific web-based services to ensure the success of the Solar Decathlon. Financial details [...] |
Job discrimination suit dismissed over procedure
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$12,000 reward offered in slaying of Laurel native
BY: Associated Press MACON, Ga. — Authorities in Macon are offering a reward of $12,000 for information leading to an arrest in the slaying of a recent law-school graduate whose dismembered body was found outside her apartment building. Macon Police Chief Mike Burns announced the reward Wednesday. No arrests have been made in the killing of 27-year-old Lauren [...] |






