Montgomery County News

Jeffrey Thames grew up playing chess with his father in Gary, Ind., learning the finer points of the game and the life lessons they can convey.

"Baseball practice in Montgomery County, Maryland. According to records obtained from the FAA, which issued 1,428 domestic drone permits between 2007 and early 2013, the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Navy have applied for drone authorization in Montgomery County."

Some Sherwood High School students and parents are feeling like some seniors got stood up for prom - by their school.

A teenage girl is missing from Montgomery County and police are asking for the public's help in locating her.

Police in Montgomery County continue to search for a missing teenage girl from Silver Spring.

A Bethesda house sustained about $100,000 damage from an early-morning fire Wednesday, according to Montgomery County firefighters.

When Montgomery County Councilman Philip M. Andrews of Gaithersburg announced that he would be leaving the council seat he has held since 1998 to run for County Executive, it set off a flurry of activity among politicians in the district to see who would fill the seat.

From public officials to schools advocates, to groups for seniors and people with mental illness or physical disabilities - many of the real people behind Montgomery County's nearly $5 billion proposed operating budget appeared before the County Council to advocate for their respective causes last week.

The Rockville City Council is taking a stand against any attempt to soften statewide ethics requirements for public officials, even though the Maryland General Assembly took no action this year.

"If terminally ill, mentally competent adults choose to end their life, they should be able to seek a life-ending dose of medicine from their physician," Mizeur said in a policy proposal released late Tuesday.

Police call it a safe kind of theft, but it's sure hurting bank accounts across the Metro area.

The group representing Montgomery developers has accused the county of accumulating large cash surpluses through excessive fees for building permits and inspections necessary to complete construction projects.

A Montgomery County Circuit Judge on Tuesday sentenced a man to 25 years for robbing a Burtonsville home on Thanksgiving 2012, the Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office announced.

Kai McMahon, 6, of Takoma Park pulls herself up a tree with the help of a harness and a rope as part of the activities for children at the Arbor Day celebration held by the City of Takoma Park and Montgomery County Parks at the Takoma Park Community Center on Saturday.

A bear was reported near Damascus along the Magruder Branch Trail on Monday, said Lt.

A fire ignited by power tool sparks caused an estimated $1 million in damage to an industrial building in Rockville on Monday, according to Montgomery County Fire and Rescue spokesman Pete Piringer.

A confrontation in a Maryland delegate's Annapolis office on the last day of the General Assembly session has links to two candidates running for the Montgomery County Council's 5th District seat.

In 2008, a water main break caused River Road in Montgomery County, Maryland , to live up to its name.

The search for the next superintendent of Anne Arundel County's public schools has been an exercise filled with numbers.

Two adults and a baby were seriously injured after a hit-and-run crash set their car on fire in Rockville.