Silver Spring News

The Coast Guard rescued three people overdue on a boat in James Creek in St. Inigoes, Md., Sunday morning.

SILVER SPRING, Md. - We all know the recession is taking a toll on some people but it also is affecting their pets, even after they pass away.

Jasper Braswell, 75, was last seen between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m. Monday, June 29, 2009, at his residence in the 13100 block of Collingwood Terrace in Silver Spring.

Photo: Buh-bye. Credit: J. Deseo/SSP. A condemned building came down recently along East-West Highway, allowing the county to cut a pedestrian path through one thick South Silver Spring block.

A person has been struck and killed by a train at the Forest Glen station on the Metro's Red Line, a Metro spokesperson said.

Two local activists are asking the D.C. Board of Elections & Ethics to investigate whether a voter referendum petition to overturn the city's same-sex marriage recognition law should be disqualified because the minister behind it is not a legal D.C. resident.

The white brick house near the corner of Woodside Parkway in Silver Spring has a charming presence inside and out.

Mary "Mandy" Doolittle was one of the nine fatal victims of Monday's Metrorail collision on the Redline.

Investigators work at the site where two Red Line Metrorail trains collided with one another between the Fort Totten and Takoma Park stations.

Metro officials are warning commuters to avoid Metrorail's red line if possible and expect delays throughout the system after a fatal crash between the Fort Totten and Takoma stations.

Silver Spring Stage presents Agatha Christie 's The Mousetrap, directed by Pauline Griller-Mitchell and produced by Richard Ley, the suspenseful mystery of guests trapped in a small hotel and a detective's search for a killer before the guests are all murdered.

Prince George's County police said yesterday they think the sniper suspects may be linked to yet another unsolved shooting -- this one of a liquor store clerk in Clinton on Sept.

Blast-induced traumatic brain injury has reached critical levels in modern-day warfare.

The era of pizza reminiscent of a cardboard box in taste and texture from the frozen foods aisle of my local grocery store, or bland generic fare from delivery, has finally come to a glorious end.

Reporting from Silver Spring, Md. -- A day after an anti-Semite allegedly shot and killed a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, experts disagreed about whether it was an isolated event or the latest sign of a growing threat by domestic hate groups.

Silver Spring's Cape May Road, a shortcut drivers use to jump onto MD 650, will close June 17.

A Silver Spring man who led county police on a 32-mile high-speed chase over the Bay Bridge in December was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison.

According to the indictment and evidence introduced during trial, Toto-Ngosso ran a tax preparation business out of his home, located on East Shaw Avenue in Silver Spring.

The Daily Record Training Webcasts Register Now Nov. 13 - 3 pm Rope Essentials for Rapid Intervention and Survival Presenter: Jeffrey Pindelski This webcast will enable you to learn essential rapid intervention rope rescue concepts that can also be applied daily fireground survival.

A Silver Spring man has been charged with arson for a fire set at a vacant Landover Hills home last year.