Montgomery County News

Darren M. Popkin thought about becoming a lawyer. It was one reason he took a job as a sheriff's deputy, to work in courts and law enforcement.

The ninth annual EagleBank Foundation Fight Against Breast Cancer Golf Classic, held on October 14, 2013, at the Trump National Golf Club, raised over $300,000.

Bruce and Joan Weber pose for a portrait in their house in Silver Spring on Nov. 30. A cat named Tank earlier this month climbed into the exposed floor of a bathroom being renovated in the Silver Spring house.

Montgomery County police say a teacher accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old student with autism, has fled to Hong Kong to avoid prosecution.

Dec. 30 will mark three full years since the last book was checked out of the Olney Library, before it closed to prepare for an expansion and renovation project.

Montgomery County Public Schools has made very public claims about making "data-driven decisions."

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Heather R. Mizeur will announce Wednesday that she will become the first contender for that office since 1994 to accept public financing of her campaign - effectively limiting her spending on the primary to about $2.5 million.

Charles Barkley has served District 39 in the Maryland House of Delegates since he was first elected in 1998, and with his 2014 bid for re-election, he isn't showing any signs of slowing down.

A former Montgomery County elementary school teacher accused of inappropriately touching four of his elementary school students pleaded guilty Monday to second-degree assault.

A Master Plan, it turns out, is still just a plan after all. BethesdaNow.com reports that Montgomery County planners are supporting The Bainbridge Companies' planned 14-story, 225-unit apartment building on a site marked for high-density office development and employment uses.

Montgomery County police say a teacher accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old autistic student has fled to Hong Kong to avoid prosecution.

A Silver Spring man faces a year and a half in jail after entering an Alford plea to rape and pleading guilty to second-degree assault charges Monday.

Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett is scheduled to sign a bill Thursday that will raise the county's minimum wage to $11.50 an hour by 2017.

A Maryland woman will spend five years behind bars after she attempted to rob a wig store and got into a physical altercation with the store's owner -- all while pushing a young child inside a stroller.

For Eric G. Luedtke, working as a Montgomery County Public Schools teacher isn't enough.

One firefighter was injured in a two-alarm blaze in Clarksville Monday morning, according to a spokesperson for Howard County's Department of Fire and Rescue Services.

Maryland state Sen. Brian Frosh lights a menorah on Dec. 1 during the Chabad Center of Bethesda's sixth annual Chanukah Family Spectacular at Bethesda Row.

A former Montgomery County fifth-grade teacher is avoiding jail time with a plea deal in a sexual abuse case.

Mendy Simon of Brooklyn helps his son Zalman Simon make latkes at Chabad Lubavitch of Upper Montgomery County's “Chanukah Wonderland” celebration at the Kentlands Saturday.

Our view: Montgomery and Prince George's counties set a new standard for minimum wage - one that goes too far for the rest of the state Efforts to raise Maryland's minimum wage received a big boost last week with the decisions in Montgomery and Prince George's counties to raise the minimum hourly pay to $11.50 in four years.