Gaithersburg News

Qiagen NV , the Dutch diagnostics technology company that bought Gaithersburg-based Digene for $1.6 billion in 2007, is preparing to clear out of Digene's old offices and move staff to an expanded Germantown headquarters.

When Montgomery County Councilman Philip M. Andrews of Gaithersburg announced that he would be leaving the council seat he has held since 1998 to run for County Executive, it set off a flurry of activity among politicians in the district to see who would fill the seat.

From public officials to schools advocates, to groups for seniors and people with mental illness or physical disabilities - many of the real people behind Montgomery County's nearly $5 billion proposed operating budget appeared before the County Council to advocate for their respective causes last week.

New manufacturing lines in a new addition to Qiagen Sciences in Germantown will enable the company to make products to test for latent tuberculosis there.

Police call it a safe kind of theft, but it's sure hurting bank accounts across the Metro area.

Coffee futures dropped the most in more than three weeks as a forecast for showers boosted prospects for crops damaged by the worst drought in decades in Brazil, the world's biggest grower and exporter.

The Rockville City Council is taking a stand against any attempt to soften statewide ethics requirements for public officials, even though the Maryland General Assembly took no action this year.

From a news release: The City of Gaithersburg will begin accepting applications on Thursday, May 15, for funding under the Frederick J. Felton Neighborhood Matching Grant Program.

On Wednesday night of this week, Deb Fallows and I are doing a program at Washington's historic Sixth and I synagogue , in conversation with the Atlantic's editor-in-chief James Bennet.

This partnership reinforces FireMon's commitment to helping federal agencies meet DHS Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation recommendations and provide agencies of all sizes with a broad range of acquisition options.

Following the commitment of Adam McLean on Saturday morning, James Franklin and his staff finally hit the top spot with the Nittany Lions' 2015 recruiting class currently ranked the best in the nation by Scout.com, Rivals.com, and the 247 Network.

Check out these stunning houses for sale from around Montgomery County. Bethesda This extraordinary stone and shingle home by Gibson Builders with a Nantucket influence has six bedrooms and nine bathrooms.

Montgomery County's "high-poverty" and "low-poverty" high schools have moved farther apart over the past several years in terms of both academic performance and student demographics, according to a county government report released Tuesday.

In the wake of the April 1 fire at a Rockville apartment complex, the cities of Rockville and Gaithersburg are teaming up to provide housing for tenants who have been displaced as a result of the blaze.

Workers install Lorann Jacobs' bronze sculpture, titled The Thinker, at the Rockville Town Square on April 9 in Rockville.

Wheat dropped for a third day, heading for a second weekly loss, as rain in parts of Australia boost soil moisture and showers in Ukraine aid crop growth.

A Maryland law decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana won't significantly lighten the enforcement workload, Montgomery County's police chief said.

Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services put out a small brush fire at the Shady Grove Metro Station on Thursday.

The FBI has placed William Bradford Bishop on its Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list in connection with the murders of his wife, mother and three sons in March, 1976.

Montgomery County Public Schools has set a deadline of April 23 to accept bids for a child care program at the new Wilson Wims Elementary school in Clarksburg.