Montgomery Community Media

News reports said the Howard County government website, along with other government sites across the United States, were hacked to display a message supporting the Islamic State, the terrorist organization. By 9:45 a.m. Monday, the site had been restored, according to a tweet from Howard County government. As of 9:45 a.m. this morning, 6/26, @HoCoGov […]

Eulalio Tordil pleaded guilty Monday for shooting his estranged wife outside a Prince George’s high school, WTOP reported. The plea was entered in Prince George’s County Circuit Court for a shooting spree that occurred May 2016. Tordil, 63, of Adelphi had pleaded guilty in April in Montgomery County Circuit Court for four shootings here, two […]

Montgomery County police believe the same man committed a series of burglaries on the same street in Bethesda the same night, according to the latest police crime summary. The three burglaries took place in the 10500 block of Meredith Avenue. Two occurred between about 1 a.m. and 7 a.m. June 1. The third occurred about […]

Montgomery County Councilman George Leventhal kicked off his campaign for county executive Saturday drawing about 100 supporters at Wheaton Regional Park. Much of his address to his supporters focused less on policy initiatives and more on how he would make county government work. “As your next County Executive, I will lead a cost-effective government that […]

Gabriel Acevero, a 27-year-old field organizer for the union that represents Montgomery County employees, kicked off a campaign Saturday to become a Democratic candidate for District 39 representative in Maryland’s House of Delegates. Acevero, who said he has spent more than five years living in the district, held his kickoff at a park in Montgomery […]

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Neil Greenberger, the Montgomery County Council public information officer who says he is running to be a member of the Montgomery County Council, said Friday he will be transferring out of his office. Instead of handling the public relations duties for the county council, he’ll cross East Jefferson Street to join County Executive Ike Leggett’s […]

Prince George’s County police said four men, arrested after a June 16 traffic stop, are believed to be involved in a string of 7-Eleven robberies around the metropolitan area. The robberies include two in Rockville and one in Gaithersburg, Prince George’s police said. The 7-Eleven at 824 Baltimore Road, Rockville, was one of the convenience […]

An MS-13 gang member was sentenced to 160 months in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring and attempting to murder on behalf of the gang, the U.S. Justice Department said in a statement Thursday. Celvin Eulice Ramos-Meija, aka “Cadejo,” 21, of Columbia was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte of […]

UPDATE: The victim is Andrea Mion Hawvermale, 56, from the 1300 block of Excaliber Lane in Sandy Spring, Montgomery County police said Wednesday evening. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore conducted an autopsy to determine Hawvermale’s manner and cause of death. The results of that autopsy are pending, police said. Original post: A […]