Montgomery County News

A former Montgomery County social studies teacher has agreed to plead guilty to sexually abusing a former student, according to records filed in Montgomery County Circuit Court.

From Montgomery Community Media Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett joined Prince George's County Executive Rushern Baker and Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz on March 6 in asking the House of Delegates to a bill that would provide increased funding for school construction to meet Montgomery County's sharp increase in enrollment, ... (more)

By Mary Ann Barton Silver Spring, Maryland - A Baltimore City police officer was arrested Wednesday and charged with beating his girlfriend's puppy to death.

A Baltimore police officer beat and choked his girlfriend's 7- month-old puppy and texted her a photo of the dog's body, authorities said Wednesday.

Some Pepco and Baltimore Gas and Electric customers are alarmed by Maryland regulators' decision to let utilities charge them extra fees totaling more than $200 in the first year for refusing to have a smart meter installed on their homes.

Images from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and National Arbor Day Foundation show that climate zones, which categorize areas by climate markers such as temperature and average rainfall, have been shifting northward in recent years, changing where plants and pests can survive.

The Montgomery County Council cast a unanimous straw vote Tuesday for a compromise plan to allow some additional development on three large sites in Clarksburg, but not at the scale developers sought.

A small fire broke out in a neighborhood near Bethesda Wednesday morning, Montgomery County Fire reported.

The estimated costs for the Red and Purple transit lines in Baltimore and suburban Washington increased in recent years, an analysis released Wednesday by the Federal Transit Administration showed.

Route 108 will be reduced to a single lane at the Howard-Montgomery county line east of Olney beginning at 8 p.m. Friday for repairs to the bridge of the Patuxent River, according to a State Highway Administration news release.

A city police officer is accused of beating a Jack Russell terrier puppy with a mop, then choking the dog and sending a picture of its dead body to its owner - his girlfriend.

A Baltimore police officer has been arrested and charged with the brutal and intentional killing of a seven-month-old puppy in Montgomery County.

Montgomery County Council members said they weren't trying to pick economic winners and losers, but there will surely be some.

Montgomery County Police identified a man who was shot and killed Monday night in the Norbeck neighborhood of Silver Spring, in the first of two homicides in the county in a 24-hour period.

A man was shot and killed in Montgomery County overnight and the gunman still is on the loose, authorities say.

As the front-runner in the Democratic race for governor, Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown often rallies his supporters as though he were already the incumbent.

The Montgomery County police say they got a call shortly after 10 p.m. reporting that shots had been fired near Oxbridge Drive and Route 355.

Rescuers were sent to the school at 7611 Piney Branch Road at around 1:45 p.m., where they found a child at the bottom of a hill.

Military families who are part of a wounded warrior program in Bethesda have for years sent their children to nearby Bethesda Elementary School while their injured service members are treated at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center .

A written message at Montgomery College's Rockville campus indicating that a shooting would occur Wednesday has spurred increased police presence at the college's three campuses in the county.