Montgomery County News

Conservative media star Glenn Beck led a national strategy session to kill the Common Core State Standards late Tuesday night, using a two-hour simulcast into movie theaters across the country as a way to embolden critics of the standards and recruit more foot soldiers to the cause.

The Takoma Park City Council on Monday narrowly decided to alter its policy on license plate readers to share data with a statewide coordinating center.

After Montgomery County Police discovered a set of 22-year-old twins with autism locked inside a dark, urine-soaked basement room, Montgomery County officials and autism advocates are reminding families of those with autism about available local resources.

After a few recent controversies surrounding the use of credit cards by Montgomery County school board members, an ad hoc committee has recommended eliminating the use of cards and switching to per diem allowances, instead.

The Montgomery County Council cleared the way Tuesday for final approval of the White Oak Science Gateway Master Plan next week, deciding that the potential economic benefits for a long-neglected region of the county overrode concerns about traffic.

Montgomery County Police said a man wearing a surgical mask robbed a Bank of America, located in Silver Spring Tuesday afternoon.

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.