Montgomery County News

A Montgomery County police officer has been injured while responding to a fight at a home in Gaithersburg.

A Laurel man was killed Saturday afternoon when he crashed his motorcycle into the rear of a Mercedes SUV that had slowed to turn into a driveway in Damascus.

The Montgomery Farm Women's Market, established in 1932, continues to attract visitors from D.C. and around the world.

Montgomery County's teacher's union is recommending county school board member Christopher S. Barclay and Gaithersburg City Councilman Ryan Spiegel for the Montgomery County Council seats they seek in this year's primary election.

Due to the harsh, wet winter the county's athletic fields including local parks, elementary and middle schools are closed to teams who would ordinarily start their spring play.

Di Zhang, the Towson woman whose arrest for allegedly operating a brothel on East Joppa Road sparked federal efforts to seize nearly $2 million worth of her real estate, has been arrested on prostitution and human trafficking charges in Montgomery County.

A common pastime in the Washington metropolitan area is looking at rankings invented by Washington Post reporter Jay Mathews.

An arrest was made as a result of an ongoing investigation conducted by detectives from the Child Exploitation Unit along Patrick Wietz, 24, has been charged with attempting to take indecent liberties with children under 15 years old and with the use of communications systems to facilitate certain offenses involving children, according to ... (more)

Montgomery County Police take a man into custody following gunfire in Chevy Chase.

Montgomery County Police are investigating a case of shots fired in Chevy Chase.

A Montgomery County grand jury on Thursday indicted a Damascus man in the beating death of his 3-year-old son.

The seemingly unending winter landed one last wallop in Montgomery County: Cleanup cost to date have totaled nearly three times what was budgeted.

A Maryland Court of Appeals decision on defendants' rights to an attorney when bail is set is expected to lead to substantial restructuring of the state's criminal justice system.

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Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett said the county's next proposed operating budget will not return to pre-recession spending levels.

A woman was held on $350,000 bail Wednesday on charges of using her 5-year-old daughter to make homemade pornography videos from a laptop.

Two Germantown women who told police they were performing an exorcism when officials found two children stabbed to death in their home were indicted by a grand jury Thursday for first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder, according to reports.

Don't let the name fool you: Franklin Delano Howard Jr. is running as a Republican for the District 14 seat in the state Senate.

District 19 delegate candidate Paul Bardack, of Silver Spring, wants to take his experience in business, online learning and job training, and affordable housing policy to Annapolis.

Some roads in the region are closed or have police directing traffic Thursday morning as high winds caused power outages .