Silver Spring News

The lights lower as sixth-graders Layla White, from left, Ayana Akli and Tram Vo prepare to watch the Silver Spring International Middle School's Film Festival on Wednesday.

An Ecuadorian criminal alien, who was released last year when Baltimore, Md., became a sanctuary city, was arrested by federal agents for the violent rape of a 9-year-old girl, according to a Judicial Watch report released on Monday.

Opponents of building the Purple Line along the Capital Crescent Trail will be out in full force this Saturday morning for the annual "Save the Trail" 5-kilometer run along the shaded trail through the woods.

Every year, bright lights and familiar names attract more than 250,000 visitors to the restaurants, stores and entertainment in downtown Silver Spring.

Danielle Trzcinski stars at Tasha Woode in “Spank! The Fifty Shades Parody” coming to the Fillmore Silver Spring.

Earlier this year - before robbing eight people at a hotel in January with a sawed-off shotgun - Jackson Julius was preparing to attend an art college in Baltimore.

Name: Kiri Brenner Age: 23 Job title: Environmental Education Intern Hometown: Silver Spring Education Data: attended Northwood High School, Silver Spring.

Montgomery County police are investigating the May 15 robbery of a 7-Eleven store in Silver Spring, and they are asking for help with identifying two suspects shown in surveillance photos.

A poll released by Public Policy Polling shows that a large percentage of Americans have an unfavorable opinion of "hipsters," a group of men and women "unusually aware of and interested in new and unconventional patterns," according to Merriam Webster.

When Montgomery County Council President Nancy Navarro summarized the fiscal 2014 county budget, the words "county," "budget" and "Montgomery" naturally featured prominently in her statement.

Montgomery County police are searching for a missing youth from Silver Spring, and they are asking for the public's help.

At the low point in the boom-bust-boom history of Silver Spring, the biggest downtown in the Washington suburbs was in desperate straits.

Only in Montgomery County do elected officials study how to get people to have fun.

Abt SRBI, the survey research arm of Abt Associates, is one of the nation's largest public policy survey firms.

Montgomery County residents are raising concerns about the county's proposed bus rapid transit system after planners revealed a scaled-back system that would center around Route 355 from Clarksburg to Bethesda.

In this May 16, 2013, photo, Abdulah Salim, Jr. hold the photograph of his father Dr.

The Montgomery County Council will enhance services and reduce energy taxes through its fiscal year 2014 operating budget unanimously agreed to Thursday morning.

Henry Levi Sanders could spend the next 60 years incarcerated - if he lives that long - pondering his crimes against the three men he carjacked in Montgomery County in November 2011.

A poll released by Public Policy Polling shows that a large percentage of Americans have an unfavorable opinion of "hipsters," a group of men and women "unusually aware of and interested in new and unconventional patterns," according to Merriam Webster.

The suspect, 59-year-old Ronnie Lee Rainey, was taken into custody after briefly barricading himself in his home.