Montgomery Community Media

Maryland Day is observed annually on March 25, the date in 1634 when European settlers landed where St. Mary’s County sits now.  First observed in 1903 by the State Board of Education to encourage the study of local history in public schools, Maryland Day was made a legal holiday by the General Assembly in 1916. As the […]

Justin Herron, a New England Patriots offensive lineman and a 2014 graduate of Potomac’s Bullis School, is being called a hero by police for saving a 71-year-old retired teacher from an attempted assault sexual last Saturday in a Tempe, Arizona, park. “It was something that I never dreamed that I thought I would see,” Herron […]

A fuel truck driver from Damascus died Tuesday during a fiery crash in Frederick County, according to Maryland State Police. William J. Costigan, 57, was hauling diesel fuel westbound on Interstate 70 near Exit 68 in Mount Airy when his truck drove off the left side of the road and into the median around 3 […]

Maryland congressional Democrats called on the U.S. Postal Service to address mail delivery problems that the state has faced in recent months following a meeting they had Monday with agency officials. The state has “experienced one of the worst postal backlogs in the country,” the federal lawmakers said in a statement Tuesday, “and there are […]

A fire Monday evening in a Montgomery Village apartment building caused an estimated $500,000 in damage and displaced 17 residents, according to Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service spokesman Pete Piringer. The three-story building in the 9900 block of Walker House Road caught fire around 5:30 p.m. Monday, Piringer said. It started with an electrical […]

Three men were charged in connection to a September 2020 homicide in Montgomery Village, according to county police. Anthony Thompson, a 45-year-old of an unconfirmed address, was arrested and charged for first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit armed robbery. Trireese Chance, 39, of Burkesville, Virginia, was charged with being an accessory after the fact to […]

Bethesda resident Jon Baron, a former federal official and nonprofit executive, is exploring a run to succeed Gov. Larry Hogan, who will reach his term limit in 2022. “When I was growing up in a middle-class family in Montgomery County, we often heard politicians talk about problems facing our state like poverty, low-performing schools, and […]

Update (March 19): New details have emerged about the carjacking that happened at a 7-Eleven on Frederick Road in Germantown in September 2019. Twenty-year-old Kenneth Darnell Davis of Boyds was sentenced to eight years behind bars for the crime on March 12. Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office officials say Davis will be on supervised probation […]

The Maryland State Police, alongside partners including Montgomery County’s department, will target excessive speeding in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties through a new initiative announced Monday. Thirty-five traffic detail from the Washington Metro Troop of the state police and members from other local law enforcement agencies will concentrate on I-495 and I-270 with the goal […]

Detectives from the Major Crimes Division of the Montgomery County Police Department are investigating the shooting of a 40-year-old Bethesda man as a homicide, the department announced Monday. Around 5:39 p.m. on March 3, officers found Derek James McBrayer laying on the sidewalk in the 1000 block of Quebec Terrace in Silver Spring, according to […]