Montgomery County News

County Executive Isiah Leggett has yet to announce whether he will seek a third term in 2014, but that hasn't stopped Doug Duncan from running hard against him to reclaim the office he left seven years ago.

Relaxing liquor laws, later last calls for bars and restaurants and more nightlife businesses around Metro stations are just some of the solutions a Montgomery County task force is considering to pump up the county's nighttime economy.

Get caught up with the food scene in Montgomery County and adjacent Washington, DC, neighborhoods with 1 Meat, 3 Sides .

A home is seen in the 7200 block of Cliff Pine Drive following an incident that left a man dead Friday morning in Gaithersburg.

Last month's indictment of 13 female correctional officers accused of smuggling drugs and cellphones to inmates in a Baltimore city prison drew national attention and outrage at an apparent lack of oversight and pervasive corruption.

A 20-year-old man whom police say called them to report a home burglary has been charged with homicide in the death of another man whose body was found in a wooded area nearby.

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.