Rockville News

ROCKVILLE - On a sunny, fall Thursday seven years ago, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, the "Beltway Snipers," shot and killed five people in Maryland and Washington.

Expression Pathology Inc. has traded up to a larger home in Rockville. The privately held company, which studies protein behavior to better detect and treat cancers, has expanded to 8,000 square feet of permanent office and lab space on 9620 Medical Center Drive in Rockville.

Women who get the recommended amount of fiber in their diets may have lower estrogen levels and ovulate less often than women who eat less fiber, a new study suggests.

A family in Rockville is dealing with a fire-ravaged home and the loss of almost two dozen pets after a blaze ripped through their house early Tuesday morning.

ROCKVILLE, Md. - Authorities are looking for an armed man who robbed a Maryland SunTrust bank wearing a Halloween mask and a man who drove a getaway car.

Brad Botwin has been called an extremist and even a Nazi. Others say he is an asset to the discourse on illegal immigration in the state, and Botwin himself maintains he is merely a concerned citizen asking questions about how the government spends his taxes.

Thousands wait in line to receive H1N1 flu vaccinations at Montgomery County's Piccard Drive Health Centre in Rockville, Maryland, October 21.

A Rockville homeowner can't go back into his house after a car crashed into it. Shortly after 5 p.m. a car was traveling northbound on Parkvale Road when it left the road near Greenspan and traveled across two yards before hitting a carport and crashing into the house at 14202 Parkvale Rd.

Most people have taken a prescription medication at one time or another, but according to a report from the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality in Rockville, Md., not only do women take more medications during their lifetimes, women are more likely to suffer from adverse drug events than men.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is heading to the nation's capital this week to receive a national award from a park advocacy group, an honor that is being criticized by some park supporters in California.

The Frederick County Health Department will hold a community presentation on pandemic H1N1 flu at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Goddard School.

Eric M. Bernard, executive director of the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Association, says the new recruiting office in downtown Rockville will try to interest volunteers for all the volunteer fire corporations in the county.

Surprise! ICC tolls will cost everyone The writer of the opinion ["The toll of tolls," Sept.

It was love at first bite for Hagerstown resident John Cangemi. The scene was Italy, where Cangemi and his wife, Joan, were visiting family years ago.

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A fourth City Council forum Wednesday night sponsored by three Rockville civic associations gave the candidates for mayor and council the opportunity to differentiate themselves from their opponents by asking them how the city would be better if they were elected or re-elected to office.

A skeleton found in the Utah wilderness last year was not that of Everett Ruess, a legendary wanderer of the 1930s, despite initial forensic tests that seemed to have solved an enduring mystery, his nephew told The Associated Press.

Ana-Carolina Castillo, 18, was last seen October 15 at her home in the 10200 block of Grosvenor Place.

Montgomery County Department of Transportation officials listened to a reader's suggestion for a traffic safety sign: "In Rockville, at the intersection of East Jefferson Street and Montrose Parkway, cars driving east on Montrose Parkway that bear right on East Jefferson have their own lane but need a yield sign.

Thoughthe government recently announced that $10 million of stimulus money would be used to fund a phase 3 clinical trial of a promising anti-smoking vaccine produced by Nabi Pharmaceuticals of Rockville, Md., another company working on a similar vaccine has not been so successful.