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Jean B. Cryor, a member of the Montgomery County Planning Board, and former three-term state legislator and newspaper publisher, died Tuesday.

Tom DeReggi and his daughter Olivia, 10, visit the playground at Clarksburg Elementary School on Monday.

With real estate values falling in recent years, a standing-room-only crowd attended Monday night's Clarksburg Civic Association meeting to learn how to appeal their tax assessments.

The following stories have been hand-selected by the Assignment Desk at News4: MARC PASSENGERS, PREPARE FOR SECURITY CHECKS MARC commuter train passengers soon will need to give themselves extra time to board their trains, as random security screenings start Friday.

Global Mission Church plans to appeal the Frederick County Planning Commission's rejection of its application to build a sanctuary on the border of Frederick and Montgomery counties.

Two Potomac teenagers lured a Gaithersburg man into a secluded area, struck him on the head with a shovel, robbed him and left him to die on a Potomac walking path in May, prosecutors alleged at a bond review hearing for one of the youths last week.

The Montgomery County Planning Board on Tuesday presented its semiannual report, which included a schedule of completion for 19 master plans and a pledge to condense the development review process - cutting the time it takes to navigate the process by two-thirds. "I think that we should do everything we can to reduce the amount of time people spend ...

It's an awful feeling when your indoor cat dashes past you and out the door. But it's even more distressing to realize that you've just made matters worse by giving chase.

GERMANTOWN, Md. - Plans for a new medical center have set off a fight in Montgomery County .

Abortion rights groups are fighting a proposal to build a new Catholic hospital in Montgomery county.

It seems a bit ironic that in one reference Webster's defines a "corridor" as a "narrow tract of land forming a passageway," and in another as a "densely populated region characterized by one or more well-traveled routes used by railroad ... or other carriers." Even the mere definitions of the word seem to support our notion that the Maryland ...

Responding to Howard County residents after a pair of well-publicized fatal crashes, the State Highway Administration said it will launch an $800,000 project Sunday to add new left-turn lanes at three intersections along Route 32 north of Interstate 70.

Fire officials at Monday's Clarksburg Civic Association meeting were met by familiar faces and one unfamiliar issue the question of a mega-church being built on the border of Frederick and Montgomery counties.

The following is a summary of incidents in the upcounty to which the Montgomery County Police responded recently.

The Gazette's Sept. 9 article, ["State to review hospital plans"] on two different proposals for a hospital in upper Montgomery County fails to mention that there are already medical services in Germantown, including the Shady Grove Adventist Emergency Center, a facility residents like myself fought hard for and do not want to lose.

From left, Amina Khalid listens as Rachel Noor reads the book "Zaki's Ramadhan Fast" to Mimi Ibrahim, 3, Hwaida Hassanein, and Layla Elsherif, 3. Hassanein and Noor recently organized the Muslim Mom's Club.

Alex Carbonell, 8, , his sister Molly Carbonell, 9, of Damascus and Isabel Wessely, 6, of Clarksburg are among the winners in this year's Damascus Community Fair Coloring Contest.

Ahead of the County Council's public hearings next week on the multi-decade proposal to triple jobs, development and housing in an 800-plus-acre area in Shady Grove, Gaithersburg City leaders are increasingly anxious about the intensity and impacts of that development.

The name of the upcounty group that helps families in crisis has changed, but its mission has not.

The following is a summary of incidents in the upcounty to which the Montgomery County Police responded recently.