Silver Spring News

Psychologists representing the American Psychological Association joined other invited health care practitioners, leaders and aides to President Obama today for the latest White House Stakeholder Discussion Group, emphasizing that health reform must include psychological services as part of primary care.

WHEATON, Md. - A Wheaton assault victim has died as a result of his injuries, and Montgomery County police have arrested a sixth person in connection with the fatal attack.

On Saturday, May 30th, several thousand community members and local business, political and community leaders came out to Ellsworth Drive to celebrate neighbors helping neighbors at IMPACT Silver Springa s free community dance party.

Photo: Beauties at the Gesneriad Society convention. Courtesy of Flickr user More Water.

The Coast Guard rescued three people overdue on a boat in James Creek in St. Inigoes, Md., Sunday morning.

SILVER SPRING, Md. - We all know the recession is taking a toll on some people but it also is affecting their pets, even after they pass away.

Jasper Braswell, 75, was last seen between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m. Monday, June 29, 2009, at his residence in the 13100 block of Collingwood Terrace in Silver Spring.

Photo: Buh-bye. Credit: J. Deseo/SSP. A condemned building came down recently along East-West Highway, allowing the county to cut a pedestrian path through one thick South Silver Spring block.

A person has been struck and killed by a train at the Forest Glen station on the Metro's Red Line, a Metro spokesperson said.

Two local activists are asking the D.C. Board of Elections & Ethics to investigate whether a voter referendum petition to overturn the city's same-sex marriage recognition law should be disqualified because the minister behind it is not a legal D.C. resident.

The white brick house near the corner of Woodside Parkway in Silver Spring has a charming presence inside and out.

Mary "Mandy" Doolittle was one of the nine fatal victims of Monday's Metrorail collision on the Redline.

Investigators work at the site where two Red Line Metrorail trains collided with one another between the Fort Totten and Takoma Park stations.

Metro officials are warning commuters to avoid Metrorail's red line if possible and expect delays throughout the system after a fatal crash between the Fort Totten and Takoma stations.

Silver Spring Stage presents Agatha Christie 's The Mousetrap, directed by Pauline Griller-Mitchell and produced by Richard Ley, the suspenseful mystery of guests trapped in a small hotel and a detective's search for a killer before the guests are all murdered.

Prince George's County police said yesterday they think the sniper suspects may be linked to yet another unsolved shooting -- this one of a liquor store clerk in Clinton on Sept.

Blast-induced traumatic brain injury has reached critical levels in modern-day warfare.

The era of pizza reminiscent of a cardboard box in taste and texture from the frozen foods aisle of my local grocery store, or bland generic fare from delivery, has finally come to a glorious end.

Reporting from Silver Spring, Md. -- A day after an anti-Semite allegedly shot and killed a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, experts disagreed about whether it was an isolated event or the latest sign of a growing threat by domestic hate groups.

Silver Spring's Cape May Road, a shortcut drivers use to jump onto MD 650, will close June 17.