November 2, 2013 1 pm until 5 pm Upper Room Church 78 Ritchie Road Capital Heights, Maryland 20743 Bring your new are slightly used coats so that we can “give” coats to fmailies in the Washington metropolitan area that are in need of coats for the winter. Help us to help others. Contact Minister Barbara […]
(Washington, DC) — Georgetown University is offering free classes to federal workers who are furloughed because of the government shutdown. WRC-TV reports it’s the second time the university has offered the deal since the shutdown began as the first round of classes filled up in a matter of days. The University says the courses, offered […]
The Ninth Annual Community Fair and Pre-Thanksgiving Dinner, hosted by First Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church in cooperation with Howard University Hospital and Howard School of Dentistry, will be held on Saturday, November 16. Everything is FREE! The community fair is from 9:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. and will feature health and dental screening. There will be free […]
(Fairfax Co., VA) — A Woodbridge woman is accused of threatening to burn down a house. Investigators say it’s related to an incident yesterday in the 61-hundred block of Rolling Road in Springfield. Twenty-eight-year-old Ashley Milstead was being held without bond in the Fairfax County Detention Center. So far there no additional details. Source:Copyright © […]
(Washington, DC) — The Metro transit agency has announced what it considers the most dangerous stations, and the Brookland stop on the Red Line tops the list. Brookland saw at least 44 “Part 1″ crimes between January and August, including robbery, sexual assault and auto theft. The Deanwood station on the Orange Line comes in […]
(Washington, DC) — DC Congressional Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton will join DC Mayor Vincent Gray today to warn of the dire effects the federal shutdown will have on locals, workers and visitors. Gray and Norton are asking people living in the city to join them in calling for an end to the shutdown at 11 a.m. on […]
(Washington, DC) — A White House advisor accidentally tweeted out the “N” workon Tuesday, then quickly deleted the post and apologized. Dan Pfeiffer was replying to a tweet from a “New York Times” reporter when he typed the letter “n” instead of “b” in the word “bigger.” On a QWERTY keyboard, those letters are next […]
In a historic, 60-page decision, Federal District Judge Catherine Blake ruled yesterday that Maryland has violated the constitutional rights of students at Maryland’s four Historically Black Institutions (HBIs), or Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), by unnecessarily duplicating their programs at nearby white institutions, a practice that begin during the era of de jure segregation. […]
A “Free” Community Breast Cancer Walk will be held on October 18th, at 10:00am – Starting at 1100 Wayne Avenue to Colesville, to Ellesworth, and back to Wayne Avenue. The Breast Cancer Walk is being sponsored by MedTech. For more information, call 240-247-4720