Potomac News

Authorities are moving against properties linked to the New York based Alavi Foundation.

The suit seeks to revoke the Alavi Foundation and the Assa Corporation's ownership of a 36-storey building at 650 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.

Montgomery County Council favors forcing crisis pregnancy centers to provide govt-approved message by Steve Schulin, Maryland Independent Party Maryland - Seven of the nine members of Montgomery County Council have co-sponsored a resolution which will require pregnancy centers to provide government-approved information.

A car is parked near the Islamic Education Center November 13, 2009 in Potomac, Maryland.

The organization that federal investigators say is a front for the Iranian government has spent millions of dollars over the years on philanthropy: buying property for four U.S. mosques, funding religious schools and language classes, and translating books on Islam.

The following stories have been hand-selected by the Assignment Desk at News4: C&O CANAL HOLE Fall hikers and holiday diners at the Old Angler's Inn will be seeing the 80-foot breach in the C&O Canal towpath again this year, with no funding available to fill in the gap.

The continued existence of the Found Footage Festival relies on two factors: First, the '80s and early '90s were the height of allegedly 'professional' video production.

Questionable skies and chilly temperatures couldn't discourage 47 volunteers from showing up near the railroad tracks by Canal Place to clean up that area of the Potomac River.

Barry Schimel, CPA, gave some thought-provoking tips on how to stay in clients' good graces during a keynote address this morning at Thomson Reuters Tax & Accounting's user conference in Orlando.

Find the causes and cures for your weekend travel delays, then look ahead to what you could face on your weekday commutes.

Jean B. Cryor, a member of the Montgomery County Planning Board, and former three-term state legislator and newspaper publisher, died Tuesday.

The document tries to predict growth for future years. Discussion took place Wednesday at City Hall on a proposed Frederick Comprehensive Plan.

Kenny and Barbara Clopper can only imagine what life was like along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in the 1800s.

Horses lead the Potomac parade each year, including horses from the Potomac Hiking and Bridle Trails Association.

The upcounty's long-awaited mass transit line will be far more likely to win federal funding if it is shifted more than a mile through the county's largest hub of biotech, state transportation officials say.

POTOMAC, Md. - A high school musical is causing a lot of controversy in Montgomery County .

A state project to turn a gravel parking lot for the Appalachian Trail into a paved, lighted commuter parking lot has Weverton-area residents worried the project will attract crime, decrease home values and scare away bald eagles.

Remember back in the summer of 2006 when Nicolle Wallace, communications director for the Bush White House, inspired graduates of a Christian high school in Virginia with a story about one of her favorite political philosophers? "In 1924, when Adolf Hitler was being challenged in his own party on his plan to basically take Germany over, Hans Luther ...

A Washington County contingent hoped to bring back what Middletown's Alex Hoffman did for a second time - a Maryland individual state golf championship.

A North Bethesda soccer coach who pleaded guilty to third-degree sexual offense must leave the country, a Montgomery County Circuit Court judge ruled on Monday.