Montgomery County News

Abbi Wicklein-Bayne, National Park Service director of interpretation, discusses the new sign for the Brookeville site of the Star Spangled Banner National Historic Trail with Rep. John Sarbanes at Brookeville Academy on Tuesday.

Montgomery County's Board of Education has given the go-ahead for the purchase of 40,000 laptops and tablets for students in Maryland's largest school system as part of a major technology initiative.

Four suspects in a June 26 armed robbery and kidnapping in Silver Spring have been apprehended, according to Montgomery County Police.

In the 2013 fiscal year, red light cameras in Montgomery County issued 43,522 tickets to drivers who failed to stop at intersections.

Local firefighter returns from Israel A Montgomery County volunteer firefighter embedded with Israeli firefighters along the Gaza border.

According to the real estate Web site Movoto.com , these "snooty little cities" in Montgomery County have rich, well-educated, private-school-loving, art gallery devotees who have the "most rigid of standards that must always be met."

Montgomery County police say a man who was released after being hospitalized after a car crash in Barnesville died at his home days later.

Montgomery County police say it's not clear what caused the death of an 8-year-old girl who lost consciousness after swimming in at the public Rockville Swim Center in Rockville.

Montgomery County police on Wednesday identified the two officers who were involved in Tuesday's fatal shooting of a man in a Silver Spring bank and provided additional information about the confrontation.

A Montgomery County judge is ordering the State Highway Administration to halt work on a sound barrier along Interstate 270 in Judge halts Md.

There's been much opining among Montgomery's elected officials about the anemic primary turnout last month, when just 16 percent of registered voters came to the polls.

Volunteers from Pepco, Marcus James, 17, of Woodbridge, Va., and Dorinda Thomas of Boyds weed the museum garden at the Button Farm Living History Center in Germantown.

A movement that began in Hawaii to ban background checks on criminal records from job applications has come to Montgomery County.

ROCKVILLE, Md - A Maryland couple is accused of keeping their autistic, 22-year-old twin sons locked in a basement room at night with no furniture and only a tiny window for light.

From a news release: Beginning Friday night at 7 p.m., the State Highway Administration will begin the final paving of the $425,000 safety improvement project on MD 191 at Strathmore Street in Montgomery County.

Police: Quick-thinking teen saves officer's dog from fire A 13-year-old is credited with helping repot a fire at an on-duty police officer's home.

Montgomery County Police have charged a Bethesda woman for hitting a 10-year-old girl biking in a Tuckerman Lane crosswalk on Friday.

Conservative media star Glenn Beck led a national strategy session to kill the Common Core State Standards late Tuesday night, using a two-hour simulcast into movie theaters across the country as a way to embolden critics of the standards and recruit more foot soldiers to the cause.

The Takoma Park City Council on Monday narrowly decided to alter its policy on license plate readers to share data with a statewide coordinating center.

After Montgomery County Police discovered a set of 22-year-old twins with autism locked inside a dark, urine-soaked basement room, Montgomery County officials and autism advocates are reminding families of those with autism about available local resources.