Montgomery County News

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.

We agree wholeheartedly with Silver Spring parents who want Westover Elementary School to abolish its National Elementary Honor Society program.

Montgomery County police have arrested a man who they say bit a security guard while trying to steal a bag of chicken Police: Man trying to steal chicken wings bites guard SILVER SPRING, Md.

Montgomery County police have identified the driver of an SUV that struck and killed a teenage girl in a Silver Spring school parking lot last week.

The Germantown Historical Society has leased the historic Germantown bank at the MARC station from the county since 2003.

As of 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Pepco was reporting some 29,000 customers in Montgomery County without power.

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Detectives from the Montgomery County Police Department are asking for the public's help to locate a Gaithersburg mother and her daughter who have been missing for three weeks.

Easton police said that on Monday, the Montgomery County Department of Corrections served an arrest warrant on Amie J. King , 28, of Germantown.

In April, the General Assembly adopted a bill decriminalizing possession of less than 10 grams of marijuana, and Gov. Martin O'Malley signed it into law.

A bag of chicken wings too tasty to be left behind by an intoxicated burglary suspect may have helped police identify the man after he fled a Silver Spring shopping area.

From Montgomery Community Media : Montgomery County firefighters are investigating what sparked a townhouse fire at 12232 Greenleaf Avenue in Potomac on July 7. More than 75 firefighters responded to the two-story townhouse blaze.

The Fountainhills Homeowners Association has spent more than $100,000 on nine lawsuits filed against the association by two residents, which members of the community have only recently been made aware of.

Clarksburg Town Center residents who live near Murphy's Grove pond should soon see significant improvements in their neighborhood, following a settlement announced Wednesday between Montgomery County and a developer.

The Montgomery County Board of Education has appointed Joel L. Beidleman as the new principal of William H. Farquhar Middle School in Olney, effective July 1. Beidleman, 39, most recently served as principal intern at Roberto Clemente Middle School in Germantown.

Evan Glass has conceded defeat to Del. Tom Hucker in the tightly contested Democratic primary for the Montgomery County Council's District 5 seat.

Howard County 's public schools are considered among the best in the country and its teacher salaries are near the top in Maryland, but such attributes haven't kept the system and its teachers' union from butting heads in a continuing contract dispute.