ADELPHI, Md. â Gregory Fowler grew up in Albany, one of eight children. His mother was a secondary school teacher, and other family members included ministers and pastors.
Fowler realized from an early age the power of education and the need to engage with people and help them wherever they are in life. These lessons have driven his success as a distinguished scholar, faculty member and innovative administrator during his 25-year career in higher education.
Based on that extensive track record of leadership in helping students succeed, the University System of Maryland (USM) Board of Regents announced recently that Fowler has been selected as the next president of University of Maryland Global Campus. He will begin his new position on Jan. 4.
involving prostitutes. according to the washington post, two of the boys have left school, two others are facing expulsion, and the fifth boy had a disciplinary hearing this morning. our kristin fisher spoke with the principal. the school community is saddened and hud by the actions of hurt by the actions of these few. reporter: the principal won t take questions or talk details. he refers to what happened last weekend only as the incident referred to in the newspaper. according to the washington post after an away game in north carolina, five players hired prostitutes from a call service. some even engaged in sexual activities with the prostitutes in their hotel rooms. the school first learned of it on tuesday afternoon and began an investigation. reporter: now if first question a lot of peoplehave was where were the chaperones? there were 16 for 65 players the principal says but he says they brought prostitutes in after the last call check at 4:00 in the morni
news photographers captured others wooping up debris as they moved through towns. we re also getting a look at storm damage left behind. emergency officials believe a tornado hit this small town in iowa, damaging about 75% of it. some of the 250 people who live there spent the night at city hall, which was the only building that had power. storms also damaged part of a hospital in iowa. no deaths or injuries were reported there. it wasn t just tornadoed causing panic. that s all hail. tore sidings off houses in parts of nebraska. some looked more like snow. accumulations measured up to about an inch high and fell the size of baseballs, as a matter of fact, in some places. meteorologists chuck bell is with us. you saw this coming, chuck. boy, not only did we see it coming yesterday morning. i started tweeting and facebooking about it on thursday. when the setup classic for that severe and that threshold, you can see those coming a couple days away. unfortunately, our worst
looking across to the accident scene. the tractor-trailer still here getting inspected. making sure all the mechanics are working, the brakes, to the. we don t know how long the tractor-trailer will be here for inspection but it s off to the side not really affecting traffic at this point because all lanes are open. what happened was the tractor- trailer slowed down because of a construction work zone and the driver behind it full force we re talking about speeds possibly 60 and higher, definitely a factor in this accident slammed into the back of this semi. we re also being told that again, speed was a factor. the person in that driving the car was fatally injured. we don t have any identity orage or anything like that or age or anything like that. but again this happened around 1:30 this morning. hopefully they ll get that cleared out shortly but this tractor-trailer but some of the video you saw of the car definitely smashed. almost nearly in half. definitely a very ba
. this is 9news now. just 30 minutes ago, police removed the bodies of two teenagers from a house in triangle, virginia. 9news now was the first on the scene. surae chinn is there now and joins us with tonight s top stories. reporter: well, a horrible scene tonight as detectives work through the night. i just talked with a major just moments ago and he says two teens were found dead inside that home you see where the american flag hangs and the yellow tape. now, prince william county police say a 17-year-old girl was found dead in an upstairs bedroom, along with a male acquaintance. they are not saying the extent of the relationship but both were found dead from gunshot wounds. and both were students at forest park high school. their bodies were brought out of the house late tonight in the 3900-block of oak dale circle. police are not giving a lot of information at this hour. they do say the girl s father came home from work to find his own daughter not breathing.