Montgomery County News

Only 16 percent of Montgomery County's registered voters turned out to vote in the June 24 primary election and a council-appointed task force has been studying ways to both boost participation and uphold voting rights.

Montgomery County Police are investigating an officer-involved shooting outside a Capital One bank along the 8700 block of Arliss Street in Silver Spring, Md.

Montgomery County Police shot and killed a man who was acting erratically and had a knife inside a bank branch in Takoma Park, Maryland Tuesday, police confirm.

A chance encounter between the creator of a television show based in Baltimore and the former mayor of that city turned governor ended not in a verbal confrontation but in song.

Rockville and Montgomery County animal control offices will hold rabies vaccination clinics from 8 to 10:30 a.m. on the third Sunday of each month through October at the new Montgomery County Animal Services and Adoption Center, 7315 Muncaster Mill Road, Derwood.

A Rockville couple was charged with abusing their twin 22-year-old autistic sons by keeping them locked at night in a basement room with no furniture, no working lights and a single comforter on a bare tile floor, according to Montgomery County arrest records.

Rockville parents John and Janice Land are accused of locking their 22-year-old sons with autism inside a basement room of their Rockville home for six years.

Author George Pelecanos will read from his book “Hard Revolution” at 7 p.m. July 31 as a benefit for the new Silver Spring Library at Eastern Village Cohousing, 7981 Eastern Ave., in Silver Spring.

Two years ago, the Montgomery County Council put a sector plan for Greater Lyttonsville on hold as officials needed to prioritize planners' workload.

He was wide-eyed at first. Ten-year-old Max Krauze opened his report card on a recent summer day in his North Chevy Chase living room to find an array of grades that reflected his fifth-grade work in Montgomery County's public schools.

The Washington Business Journal reported in June that franchisee David Rosenstein is planning to open four new Amsterdam Falafelshop locations, including two in Bethesda and Silver Spring.

Sunday night will be a very special evening for music fans in our area as well as for two local musicians.

Around 10:50 p.m. on Nov. 6, 2013, three gunmen broke into an Aspen Hill halfway house along the 13400 block of Grenoble Drive.

NORTH BETHESDA, Md. A 10-year-old girl was seriously injured when she was struck by a car while riding her bike on Friday evening.

Check out these beautiful homes for sale in Montgomery County. Bethesda/Chevy Chase This brick home in Bethesda has 4 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms and is located on a 1-acre lot.

Authorities say four people were injured in a crash involving a car and a Metrobus on an entrance ramp to the Capital Beltway.

A Rockville mother reportedly left water for a puppy and Gatorade and a cell phone with her 7-year-0ld son, then left them alone in a car while she shopped for 90 minutes at Gaithersburg's Lakeforest Mall , authorities allege.

Hillary Hudson “seduces” Bud the Stud in Bowie Community Theatre's production of “Sex Please Weíre Sixty.” We're supposed to have some nice weather this weekend, so why on Earth would you want to stay in your house watching television when there is so much to do near you?! I mean, the newest episode of “True ... (more)

The manufacturer, Duncan Solutions of Milwaukee, is no longer producing the key or supporting the system's software and hardware, according to a county news release.

Old-fashioned hayrides are only one of the free activities at the Great Outdoors Festival happening Saturday, July 19, at the campground at Little Bennett Regional Park in Clarksburg.