Kensington News

By Naseem Rakha Of all the arguments in support of capital punishment, perhaps the most emotionally compelling is that it provides "closure" for the loved ones of murder victims.

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to block today's scheduled execution of sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad.

Marion Lewis said he was in the middle of nowhere, just finished with a 10-hour shift crushing rocks on the Idaho-Nevada border, when a phone call pulled him out of the hotel shower.

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Some ache for revenge, others simply for justice. There is frustration, too, and defiance.For those wounded by the D.C. snipers and for the relatives of those killed, the emotions leading up to the execution of the mastermind behind the 2002 attacks vary as widely as those who found themselves in the cross hairs.John Allen Muhammad, 48, is set to ...

With just more than a week to go before Halloween, area farmers and others selling pumpkins said they hope a good weekend will help boost sales of this year's crop.

The Montgomery County Planning Department has begun a comprehensive update of the 1978 Town of Kensington and Vicinity Sector Plan.

City officials in Kensington, Maryland, have banned children older than five from Reinhardt Park from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.

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Living with today's economy is hard and finding a job is even harder. Though the weather wasn't very pleasant Thursday, many people came out to the One-Stop Job Center in hopes of finding employment at the job fair.

The Montgomery County Planning Board has approved the Kensington and Vicinity Sector Plan, which proposes a new commercial and residential town center for the town between the Wheaton and White Flint Metro stations.

The idea behind public parks is that they provide a safe place for kids to come and play.

The Grinch has returned to Kensington, Maryland. The town that banned Santa Claus from its Christmas celebration a few years back, now wants to keep kids older than five out of Reinhardt Park.

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KENSINGTON, Md. - Motorists in another local community should get ready to slow down.

It's been one year since he was put in jail, and 22-year-old Preston Crocker says he feels better now than he has in seven years as a free man.

James Martin, 55, of Silver Spring, Md. Killed Oct. 2 in the parking lot of Shoppers Food Warehouse grocery store in Wheaton, Md.

A key witness in a federal corruption trial scheduled to start this week is a man who once served as the top aide to former U.S. Rep.

During the ongoing shortages of natural desiccated thyroid drugs -- such as Armour, Nature-Throid and Westhroid -- I have occasionally shared that the pharmacy that I use for my own medications -- Knowles Apothecary in Kensington, MD -- was keeping a good stock of natural thyroid drugs on hand to meet the demand.

Years into the scandal, a protege of Jack Abramoff is the first member of the imprisoned lobbyist's team going before a jury to fight federal corruption charges that will put their very profession on trial.