Montgomery County News

A portion of Riffle Ford Road in Montgomery County is closed due to high water on Friday morning, say police.

Montgomery County police have released the latest crime report for the Fourth District, from May 6-14. The list published here is not comprehensive, but rather selects incidents that occurred in or near Wheaton and Glenmont.

Roads may not be much safer for pedestrians in Montgomery County now than they were nearly a decade ago, despite huge, recent efforts from government and police to curb deaths, data released by police suggests.

A Metrobus struck a man in Olney in Montgomery County. He later died at the hospital.

The critically injured person is 'alert and conscious', according to Montgomery County Fire & Rescue.

New legislation signed into law this month bans assault-style weapons and requires gun purchasers to be licensed and fingerprinted.

Montgomery County residents will pay a bit more in property taxes and a bit less in energy taxes, after the County Council unanimously approved the fiscal year 2014 operating budget Thursday morning.

The simultaneous unlocking in April of 500 electronic cell doors at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in Boyds was triggered by a software upload and not by power outages, according to county officials.

Montgomery County fire and rescue officials say a parking garage has partially collapsed outside a shopping mall in Bethesda, and at least one person is trapped.

At around 8:40 p.m., a 16-year-old male was shot as he walked with a group of people through the Sunoco gas station parking lot at 8875 Piney Branch Road, according to county police spokesman Capt.

Dan Gross/The Gazette Watkins Mill Road west of Rt 355 is a dead end that is currently used for parking by construction crews working nearby.

Almost one-third of all Montgomery County residents are renters, said Matthew Losak, the executive director of Montgomery County Renters Alliance , but they are underrepresented in policy decisions.

A Bethesda man who was The Washington Post's 2008 High School Hockey Coach of the Year faces charges of theft in Maryland and Virginia.

Opponents of building the Purple Line along the Capital Crescent Trail will be out in full force this Saturday morning for the annual "Save the Trail" 5-kilometer run along the shaded trail through the woods.

I was listening to the local NPR affiliate today and one of the stories was about how Montgomery County Maryland's Division of Solid Waste Services acknowledges best practice waste recycling by County businesses each year .

The lights lower as sixth-graders Layla White, from left, Ayana Akli and Tram Vo prepare to watch the Silver Spring International Middle School's Film Festival on Wednesday.

All nine Montgomery County Council members are expected to vote "yes" on a $4.8 billion budget for fiscal 2014 at 9:30 a.m. Thursday in Rockville.

As of 3 p.m. Wednesday, officers from Montgomery County police department's 1st District will no longer be working from Rockville.

County Executive Isiah Leggett went online Tuesday to answer questions from county residents.

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.