Metro Briefs

DISTRICT

Mayor touts green summer jobs

D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty has begun a summer jobs program that he says will lead to a greener, cleaner capital.

Mr. Fenty said 800 residents ranging in age from 14 to 21 will participate in this year’s Green Summer Job Corps. Employees will participate in projects across the city that focus on four areas: energy, watersheds, parks and trees.

President Obama’s special adviser for green jobs, Van Jones, praised the program for giving D.C. youths the skills to excel in green industries of the future.

The green jobs program began last summer and had about 400 participants. The city said the program and D.C.’s Conservation Corps are the largest green jobs training effort in the country.

MARYLAND

UPPER MARLBORO

Man sentenced to life in slaying

An El Salvador man was sentenced to life without parole in the slaying of a Hyattsville man during a robbery in Hyattsville in 2007.

Henry Angulo-Gil, 33, was convicted in February of felony first-degree murder in the death of Carlos Millan, 36, of Hyattsville.

Prosecutors said that on April 14, 2007, Angulo-Gil and an accomplice carjacked a vehicle, then approached Mr. Millan and tried to take a gold chain from his neck.

Mr. Millan resisted, and Angulo-Gil fatally shot him.

BALTIMORE

Developer admits to conspiracy

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