Montgomery County News

Montgomery County school board members are turning in their credit cards, after the board unanimously voted Monday to change its expense guidelines and procedures.

High school suspensions in Montgomery County plummeted nearly 37 percent in the past school year as the district made concerted efforts to use alternatives to out-of-school punishment and reduce racial disparities in discipline.

A Montgomery County doctor has been arrested on multiple charges related to the illegal distribution of pain medication from his Rockville clinic.

A large portion of the Inner Loop of Interstate 495 in Montgomery County is completely shut down due to a major, multi-vehicle accident Thursday morning.

Monument Realty sued the National Labor College in a last-minute bid to block the college from selling its 46-acre campus in Silver Spring to another buyer and force the college to sell to it instead.

The juvenile who escaped from a youth work camp in Garrett County earlier this month and stole a vehicle and crashed it on I-70 has been caught.

Rockville and Olney will join forces with thousands of communities nationwide Tuesday to celebrate National Night Out, a crime prevention event sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch.

After what seemed like an interminable wait for the Silver Line , Metro's extension to Tysons is finally here .

The Montgomery County couple accused of abusing their autistic twins agreed in court Wednesday to allow social workers to take temporary guardianship of the twins for the next two months.

Jean Claude Roy, 32, who at one time lived on Brittania Circle in Germantown, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release for conspiring to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion, according to a recent release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Baltimore.

This case was received recently by the Montgomery County Animal Services Division.

Death in Montgomery County can lead to a long, difficult task - returning a loved one's body to a foreign final resting place.

A Montgomery County youth soccer organization is suing the county's school board, claiming the board unfairly struck agreements with other groups for the use of two artificial turf fields at schools.

Police in Montgomery County are looking for several teenage boys after a woman was shot in Silver Spring early Wednesday morning.

In May, two-term board member Chris Barclay was lambasted for making at least 14 personal charges with his taxpayer-issued credit card.

After having its first charter school application rejected by the Carroll County Board of Education last year, Sustainable Futures Inc. reworked the application and submitted it for consideration in April.

The fourth book from the Derek Strange series written by George Pelecanos will be read by the author on July 31 for a library benefit.

The Montgomery County Council gave final approval Tuesday to an ambitious land-use plan designed to spur creation of a new science-focused town center in the county's long-neglected eastern sector.

Montgomery County's school board members unanimously voted to give up their district-paid credit cards Monday night, adopting a sweeping set of new spending rules after public disclosure of improper charges , unclear guidelines and poor oversight.

A new vision for Sandy Spring Village is one step closer to reality, after the Montgomery County Planning Board on July 17 approved its staff's draft of the Rural Village Plan.