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Vol. 57, No. 47 • September 8 - 14, 2022
Sports / Page 47
County Executive Alsobrooks Reinvokes Juvenile Curfew to Combat Crime James Wright, WI Contributing Writer D. Kevin McNeir, WI Senior Editor
5 Prince George’s County Police Chief Malik Aziz speaks during a joint press conference with County Executive Angela Alsobrooks on the rise of crime in the County and across the region on Sept. 5, at the police department headquarters in Upper Marlboro. (Shevry Lassiter/The Washington Informer)
In the wake of the recent Labor Day weekend during which five people died from gunfire, including a 16-year-old boy, Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks announced that county police will more vigorously enforce a juvenile curfew law already in place. Alsobrooks made the announcement during a press conference on Monday, Sept. 5 in Upper Marlboro at the Prince George’s County Police Department Headquarters. She would be joined by Police Chief Malik Aziz, Council Chair Calvin S. Hawkins II, Vice-Chair Council member Sydney J. Harrison, The Rev. Tony Lee and several other council members. The curfew prohibits teenagers under 17-years-old from being out in public between the hours of 10 p.m. - 5 a.m. on weeknights and between 11:59 p.m. and 5 a.m. on weekends. Teens must be accompanied by a parent or
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Sam P.K. Collins WI Staff Writer
D. Kevin McNeir WI Senior Editor
At the beginning of the year, Hyattsville Mayor Kevin “Scooter” Ward’s suicide sent shockwaves throughout the D.C. metropolitan area as friends, family and colleagues mourned the loss of a rising public servant. But the recent release of documents from a federal in-
As the sounds of bells, silenced throughout the summer, suddenly rang out across America in the fall of 1954, signaling that the time had come to return to classrooms, public schools in both the District and Baltimore underwent a shift of mammoth proportion. Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic decision on May 17, 1954, which ruled that public schools
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5 C.C. Ford, Pat Ford Neal, Yvonne Ford Borne, Camille Ford Dorsey, and seated Mother Evelyn Ford. (WI File Photo/Roy Lewis)
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