Montgomery County News

Artwork hangs on display during the "Off the Wall" exhibit in Rockville, Maryland on July 11, 2014.

The day of her son's eighth-grade promotion ceremony in Montgomery County, Susan Townsend got word that the teen had failed his Algebra 1 final exam .

After one of the most exciting free agency weeks in NBA history, President Obama is hitting the links with ESPN basketball analyst Michael Wilbon and Boston Celtics part-owner Glenn Hutchins on Saturday.

Montgomery County elementary and middle school students' reading and math scores fell across the board in the last year of Maryland School Assessment tests, according to 2014 data released Friday by state education officials.

The FBI and Montgomery County Police are offering a $5,000 reward for the capture of a robber who threatened to bomb a pair of Silver Spring banks.

Check out these beautiful homes for sale in Montgomery County. Bethesda/Chevy Chase This stunning, three-story craftsman home has 6 bedrooms and 5.5 bathrooms.

A Maryland man accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend last year was convicted Friday and now faces life in prison.

The Tech Council of Maryland hopes a new office at the University of Maryland BioPark will help the organization play a bigger role in technology and life sciences in Baltimore.

A 24-year-old man has been indicted on charges that he kidnapped and assaulted a Montgomery County judge who was also his girlfriend earlier this year.

The future of Rockville's main commercial strip will be in the spotlight Monday, as a new plan to overhaul Rockville Pike lands in the laps of the mayor and City Council.

The Andy Raymond rant is a thing to behold. Raymond, the co-owner of Engage Armament in Montgomery County, Maryland, is one of the two gun dealers who, a few months ago, tried to sell the Armatix iP1 x2013 aka, the first commercially available x201csmart gunx201d x2013 to his customers.He thought that not only did he have...

A state Common Core work group picked to review the controversial educational standards met Thursday for the first time to review the standards and how local school districts would implement them.

Montgomery County police need your help with finding a missing 56-year-old woman.

On July 1, Gary Gardner replaced Bill McMahon as Chief of the Howard County Police Department.

Riley has been with the parks department for 30 years, climbing the ranks from a staff engineer to his most recent job, the deputy director for administration.

ROCKVILLE, Md . - Montgomery County police are investigating a four-car crash on Columbia Pike that left one driver in critical condition.

A woman was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries after a three-car collision along Route 29 Wednesday that left her trapped in her overturned vehicle on Wednesday.

The five finalists for Montgomery Planning Board chair brought a cover-all-the bases caution to their four and a half hours of interviews with the County Council on Tuesday.

Director Ally Ettman of Bethesda , and producer Bill Goodman of Chevy Chase , work with actor Dexter Hamlett of Silver Spring , during a rehearsal of “Chesapeake” on Monday at the Bedroom at Fort Fringe in Washington, D.C. Director Ally Ettman of Bethesda watches during a tech rehearsal of “Chesapeake” on Monday at the ... (more)

Montgomery County's longstanding student achievement gap will bring together county and school officials as they try to hammer out ways to shrink those differences between high schools that have low or high levels of student poverty.