Montgomery County News

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.

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.

Let our lawmakers know Montgomery County residents are tired of running for cover every time lawn pesticide companies come around to assault our families and neighborhoods! SIGN this petition to ask Montgomery County lawmakers to be leaders in giving us public health rights and protect us from toxic cosmetic lawn pesticides -- What are Cosmetic ... (more)

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.