Prince George’s County on Wednesday joined the growing list of jurisdictions in Maryland suing opioid manufacturers. “The scourge of this health crisis is affecting Prince Georgians countywide,” Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III said in a statement. “Families ...

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LARGO — University of Maryland Medical System officials joined federal, state and local elected officials to officially break ground on the University of Maryland Capital Region Medical Center in Prince George’s County Thursday morning, an event decades in the making. ...

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Maryland officials have begun the public rollout of the state’s first-in-the-nation prescription drug price gouging law by soliciting price gouging stories from citizens. Elected officials from Montgomery County and Prince George’s County joined Attorney General Brian Frosh at Riderwood Village, ...

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The state's chief tax collector Wednesday threw his support behind an effort to bring Amazon's second headquarters to Baltimore.

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County and state legislative leaders say funding for a new Prince George’s County hospital is missing from the governor’s proposed budget. Now, Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr., a Democrat, says he’s giving Republican Gov. Larry Hogan until next ...

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Daniel Thomas has been named chairman of the Advisory Board for the University of Baltimore, Merrick School of Business Real Estate and Economic Development Program.

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UPPER MARLBORO — A plan to construct the first Whole Foods Market in Prince George’s County is moving forward. The county council voted 7-2 on Monday in favor of a rezoning request that would allow for the market to be ...

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Prince George’s County is getting serious about monitoring gun offenders who are no longer incarcerated. Good. Under legislation passed unanimously on Tuesday by the county council, persons convicted of gun-related crimes will be required to register and check in regularly ...

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National Harbor, the uber-development along the shores of the Potomac River in Prince George’s County, took a big hit with the artfully timed day-after-Thanksgiving announcement by Walt Disney Co. that it had scrapped plans to build a 500-room resort hotel ...

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I adopted the state of Maryland and made my home in Prince George’s County in the spring of 1970 when I returned home from four months of active duty as a member of the Maryland National Guard. I did so ...

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