Montgomery County News

An Afghan refugee can stay in this country despite pleading guilty to second-degree assault on a Montgomery County police officer who was processing his arrest for driving under the influence, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held.

More schools in Montgomery County are participating in free breakfast programs, a reality that may result in increased student achievement, advocates for school breakfast said.

The Montgomery County Council will enhance services and reduce energy taxes through its fiscal year 2014 operating budget unanimously agreed to Thursday morning.

A poll released by Public Policy Polling shows that a large percentage of Americans have an unfavorable opinion of "hipsters," a group of men and women "unusually aware of and interested in new and unconventional patterns," according to Merriam Webster.

The city of Gaithersburg released the following news: The city of Gaithersburg announces the selection of three roads for Green Street construction: Victory Farm Drive west of the intersection of Victory Farm Drive and Saybrooke Oaks Boulevard Dosh Drive west of the intersection of Dosh Drive and Midline Road Cedar Avenue northeast of the ... (more)

Henry Levi Sanders could spend the next 60 years incarcerated - if he lives that long - pondering his crimes against the three men he carjacked in Montgomery County in November 2011.

Marylanders by the dozens turned over unwanted firearms to police in the first statewide "Gun Turn-In Day," sponsored by Attorney General Doug Gansler.

Two patients in Maryland go to the hospital for an identical procedure. If they both go to the same hospital, they will face the same charges.

When Montgomery County Council President Nancy Navarro summarized the fiscal 2014 county budget, naturally, the words "county," "budget" and "Montgomery" featured prominently in her statement.

Town of Somerset Mayor Jeffrey Slavin crossed "the so-called 'picket line' " of people boycotting and protesting against the Montgomery County Democratic Central Committee's Spring Ball on May 11 to receive the Rita Morgan-Bruce Jerney Community Service Award at the event.

Montgomery County prosecutors have charged a Nevada man with bringing women cross-country and selling them for sex.

Get caught up with the food scene in Montgomery County and adjacent Washington, DC, neighborhoods with 1 Meat, 3 Sides .

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Renee Palmer Gamby was just a toddler when she says she was molested by a male babysitter from her church.

Among the hundreds of Montgomery County commuters who will take to their bikes this Friday for Bike to Work Day will be Montgomery County Council members Roger Berliner, Valerie Ervin, George Leventhal and Hans Riemer.

Only in Montgomery County do elected officials study how to get people to have fun.

As the number of pedestrian deaths and injuries in Wheaton and Montgomery County continues to increase, local police and officials have announced measures to improve public safety.

No one went hungry in the $4.8 billion budget Montgomery County Council members tentatively approved Thursday.

More than 100 guns and 10,000 rounds of ammunition were turned in to three police stations in Montgomery County as part of a statewide gun turn-in program during the weekend.

For teens and 20-somethings in America, driving is much less of a daily thing than it was, say, 20 years ago.