Montgomery County News

Dan Gross/The Gazette ¬ Saqib Ali, co-chair of Equality4Eids, a campaign to get Montgomery County Public Schools closed on two Muslim holidays.

A 30-year-old Germantown man who had been working as a private tutor and athletic coach has been arrested and charged with sexually abusing the teenage girl he was teaching.

The owner of a coal-fired power plant in Dickerson plans to stop using coal to generate electricity at two of its Maryland plants.

Montgomery County police have arrested a man who worked as a private athletic coach and charged him with sex offenses stemming from an incident with a teenage girl.

Detectives said Tuesday that 30-year-old Daniel Sirotkin of Germantown has also been charged with third-degree sex offense.

Montgomery County Police are searching for a 30- to 40- year-old man they believe robbed banks in Bethesda and Rockville last week.

The snow has been falling steadily for about a few hours in Montgomery County. Are you seeing accumulations in your yard or neighborhood? Have you captured a lovely winter scene on camera? CLICK HERE TO ADD YOUR PHOTO .

Montgomery County Public Schools and all administrative offices are closed today due to emergency weather conditions, according to a news release.

After months of positioning himself as an outsider, Maryland's Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler on Tuesday announced 41 current and former Montgomery County elected officials back his gubernatorial campaign.

The director of food and nutrition services for Montgomery County says removing the strawberry beverage, which has artificial coloring in it and has been served for the past five or six years, is the "right thing to do."

The Montgomery County Planning Board is considering a 250-foot height limit to induce owners of the Apex Building in Bethesda to relocate to make way for a station at the western terminus of the $2.2 billion Purple Line.

Montgomery County Council President Craig Rice said he paid more than $1,000 in delinquent D.C. tickets Monday - for illegal parking, speeding and expired tags - after a television reporter confronted him with the records.

With winter weather and more snow forecast for Tuesday, keep tabs on the latest school delays/closings: Click HERE to see the list.

By Laura L Thornton Had enough of the snow this week? Well, it's not over yet. On Monday morning, the National Weather Service issued a winter storm watch for Montgomery County for Tuesday, from 5 a.m. to 2 p.m. Heavy snow is expected, the National Weather Service advised.

Spiegel is seeking the District 3 seat held by Councilman Phil Andrews, who's leaving the post to for Montgomery County Executive.

Mark Hoft as Macy, Bailey R. Center as Santa, Patrick Becker and Lydia Kivrak in the Tantallon Community Players production of “Miracle on 34th Street,” to Dec. 15 at Harmony Hall in Fort Washington.

Extending shop local retail positioning through co-operatives. While the co-operative business movement started in the 1890s, and some large organizations are still organized that way, especially businesses serving farmers , and rural electricity systems , for the most part retail businesses aren't run as co-operatives, with a couple of exceptions.

When Montgomery County Del. Heather Mizeur , who's running for governor, unveiled a proposal to tax and legalize sales of pot, most of the reactions from Maryland politicians were muted - with one Frederick County delegate providing a characteristically explosive exception.

A vehicle theft occurred in the 5400 block of Randolph Road in Rockville on Friday, Nov. 22 at 7:21 p.m. A residential burglary occurred in the 200 block of Highland Avenue in Rockville on Wednesday, Nov. 20 between 11:30 a.m. and 10:45 p.m. No forced entry; property taken.

Bill de Blasio will be unveiling "important" new appointments in the near future, but don't expect his schools chancellor pick to be among them.