Montgomery Community Media

Here are five things to know today, April 11, in Montgomery County: 1. The 2018 General Assembly session ended at midnight. You can expect to see a tide of post mortems flooding the news as bleary-eyed lawmakers stand in front of television cameras. 2. State’s Attorney John McCarthy said cell phone, hotel and financial records helped prove […]

Montgomery County police detectives are trying to catch a group of burglars who are breaking into homes in the Gaithersburg and Rockville areas, police said Monday. Someone typically knocks on the front door to see if anyone is home, then the burglars force their way into the home from the rear, Detective Mike Kwarciany said. […]

UPDATED A Montgomery County firefighter died on duty Friday, according to a county fire spokesman. Charles “Rick” Gentilcore was found unresponsive about 3:30 p.m., said Pete Piringer, spokesman for Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services. Gentilcore was taken to Holy Cross Hospital, where he died. “The MCFRS family has incurred a great loss,” Piringer said […]

A Baltimore 18-year-old was arrested Wednesday, the fourth person charged in the Feb. 10 death of a Hyattsville man in Montgomery Village. Police said the shooting was part of an attempt to rob a drug dealer. Shiloh Young of the 4200 block of Willshire Avenue in Baltimore was arrested at his home on a Montgomery County arrest warrant […]

Public safety news dominated MyMCMedia’s web traffic again last week, with the story of the Richard Montgomery High School security guard’s arrest leading the pack. We also had a couple of fires. And one missing man was found, and the body of another missing man was discovered. One of our top stories also was the […]

The 57-year-old security guard charged with having sex with a 17-year-old Richard Montgomery High School student bought the girl gifts and told the girl he loved her, according to charging documents in the case. Mark Christopher Yantsos of Rockville bought the girl Ugg boots, a North Face jacket, a diamond pendant necklace for Christmas, a […]

Here are five things to know today, April 6, in Montgomery County: 1. Wednesday’s beautiful weather will be just a memory today as nasty weather moves in. 2. The Montgomery County Planning Board gets a briefing on the status of delineating cemeteries. The meeting starts at 9 a.m. 3. Democrats and public education advocates will […]

Budget testimony before the Montgomery County Council continued Wednesday, with a number of organizations making their case for funding in the fiscal 2018 spending plan. Among the people testifying was Merlyn Reineke, executive director of Montgomery Community Media. Here’s what he said:

The remains of John Patrick Donohoe of Bethesda, missing for more than three months, were found in Warren County, Virginia, on Sunday, near an entrance to the Appalachian Trail, police agencies said Wednesday. Donohoe, 36 when reported missing, had been reported as a missing person to police on Dec. 13, Montgomery County police said in […]

White Flint residents received updates on transportation proposals for their North Bethesda neighborhood Tuesday night. About 25 people attended the Friends of White Flint meeting, at AMP by Strathmore, where the focus was on the White Flint 2 Sector Plan. The plan covers 460 acres in a bowtie-shaped region east and west of the White […]