Ben Conarck

City officials said the Amigos Mexican Grill on Baltimore Avenue was ordered to close on Friday after a review by the city’s fire department and permitting office.

Share this via... The audit comes from an oversight office facing steep budget cuts

The Prince George's County Police Department said it is “working to determine the circumstances” of a fatal shooting inside a Suitland apartment early Monday morning.

The sheriff's office said on Wednesday that it didn't learn of the audit until May 18, the day The Banner reported its findings.

The Maryland correctional officers union is criticizing plans to deal with staffing shortages by giving incarcerated people unsupervised recreation time, saying the move would place both prisoners and officers in danger.

A county staffer alleges that she was assaulted by a communications director in March, resulting in a black eye. The case is still pending.

Share this via... Critics are eyeing a $39 million transfer from the bi-county planning agency

Prince George's County officials are drawing more questions after shuttering a brand-new civic area outside their administrative building in Largo, a project built with $10 million in state funds.

Prince George's County Council members dug in Thursday, defending their attempt to transfer nearly $40 million from a bi-county parks and planning commission in the face of a lawsuit by the agency filed this week.

Council members Krystal Oriadha and Edward Burroughs have tried to expand and take control of the decades-old program