Gaithersburg News

Bobby Patton, CEO of Patton Electronics in Gaithersburg, Md., talks about the importance of the Export-Import Bank's credit insurance to his company at a Capitol news conference as Sen. Ben Cardin and SBA Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet listen.

Jared Wine, 17, of Gaithersburg attaches weights to a bridge made of spaghetti and glue that he helped design and build to test the structure's load-bearing strength during the annual contest Friday that marks the end of the monthlong Engineering Innovation summer camp for high school students at Johns Hopkins University in Rockville.

Prince George's County Police Department said they have identified the victim of a fatal crash that happened on July 18, in Brandywine as a 31-year-old woman from Gaithersburg.

From left, actors Ashley Byrd, Jimmy Santos and Liz Fox Corrente perform in “Fight or Flight,” a short play written by Kryss Lacovaro and Natalie Brunelle.

In the first incident, a couple were stabbed around 10:28 p.m. in the 1100 block of K Street SE, said Officer Paul Metcalf, a police spokesman.

Montgomery County Police Department said Sunday a 47-year-old woman was found dead inside of a home in Gaithersburg.

Donna Kolb , co-owner of Kolb Electric , which has offices in Elkridge, Gaithersburg and Myersville, has been named a 2014 Brava! Award winner by Baltimore SmartCEO magazine.

Jared Wine, 17, of Gaithersburg attaches weights to a bridge made of spaghetti and glue that he helped design and build to test the structure's load-bearing strength during the annual contest Friday that marks the end of the monthlong Engineering Innovation summer camp for high school students at Johns Hopkins University in Rockville.

It was a quiet Sunday afternoon, save for the air conditioning whirling in the background and cars driving past the second-story studio tucked away on Kentlands' Main Street.

From left, actors Ashley Byrd, Jimmy Santos and Liz Fox Corrente perform in “Fight or Flight,” a short play written by Kryss Lacovaro and Natalie Brunelle.

El Nino will probably develop as a weak event in late summer or early fall in the Northern Hemisphere, according to MDA Weather Services, while Commodity Weather Group LLC said it may be delayed for several months as the warming of the Pacific Ocean slows.

Natural gas futures slid for the fifth straight day in New York, reaching an eight-month low, on speculation that mild U.S. weather will bolster inventory gains.

A Florida trucker is starting a one-year jail sentence for killing two men when the tractor-trailer he was driving overturned atop a pickup truck in Frederick County.

Rockville and Montgomery County animal control offices will hold rabies vaccination clinics from 8 to 10:30 a.m. on the third Sunday of each month through October at the new Montgomery County Animal Services and Adoption Center, 7315 Muncaster Mill Road, Derwood.

GAITHERSBURG, Md. & SEOUL, South Korea -- -- Seegene Inc. , a leading developer of multiplex PCR technologies, today announced "MuDT" technology, the industry's first real-time PCR technology that will ignite a paradigm shift in the PCR instrument market.

Some Gaithersburg residents aren't on board with the idea of constructing more than a dozen townhomes on a small portion of land that borders one part of the new Watkins Mill Town Center development, as well as nearby CSX railroad tracks.

Rep. John Delaney greets Barbara Martin of Gaithersburg during a town hall meeting at the Star Diner in Gaithersburg on Tuesday, July 22. U.S. Rep. John Delaney speaks to constituents during a town hall meeting at the Star Diner in Gaithersburg on Tuesday, July 22.

Gaithersburg is changing the time restriction on parking spaces in downtown Kentlands after receiving complaints from patrons and businesses owners about the enforcement of the current limit.

The City Council recently voted to award a contract to HBW Group Inc. of Rockville to handle the renovations of the center, which sits at 80A Bureau Drive in Gaithersburg.

The system's scanning capabilities are illustrated on a phantom, a life-size dummy made of tissue-equivalent plastic, meaning it absorbs, transmits, and scatters x rays in a similar way to human tissue.