Montgomery Community Media

Jose Canales-Yanez was one of four killers of two boys nearing graduation last June, a Montgomery County judge ruled Thursday. Canales, 26, faces life without parole when he is sentenced March 28, State’s Attorney John McCarthy said at a news conference after the judge rendered his verdicts. Life without parole is the stiffest penalty in […]

Montgomery County was one of 20 metropolitan areas in North America as a potential site for Amazon’s second headquarters, according to news reports. The company, which wants to locate 50,000 jobs at a second site, reviewed 238 proposals. The list also included Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C. Other sites, in alphabetical order are Atlanta; Austin, […]

The Wheaton police district has released video surveillance that shows two men wanted in connection with thefts of credit cards and a checkbook from an unlocked car, and detectives are hoping the public can help identify them. The thefts occurred during the overnight hours of Dec. 11 into Dec. 12, according to a police statement. […]

The section of Metro track that failed Monday had been visually inspected three times this month, once in August and once also in October, a rail system official said Tuesday. Track failure remains the likely cause of Monday’s Metro derailment, but the transit system is examining other causes, said the official, Pat Lavin, Metro’s chief […]

Council President Hans Riemer met with reporters and the topics included: the County Council going through County Executive Ike Leggett’s savings plan, the temporary protected status of 10,000 Salvadorans in the county and Silver Spring in the wake of Discovery Communications’ departure.

County Executive Ike Leggett unveiled his six-year capital budget, which would spend $4.5 billion on county projects, including school construction, transportation improvements and affordable housing. Montgomery County Public Schools would receive $1.75 billion; the school system had requested $1.83 billion. “We’ll go back and look at that, because we’re learning of this at the same […]

Here’s five things to know today, Tuesday, Jan. 16, in Montgomery County: 1. Capital Budget: County Executive Ike Leggett discusses his capital budget at a press conference at 11 a.m. 2. Meet the Media: County Council President Hans Riemer holds his regular meeting with the media today at 12:30 p.m. in the Council Office Building. […]

Public safety news dominated the MyMCMedia Top 10 stories based on web traffic over the past week. And of course, part of that was weather related with schools closing early on Monday, following the National Weather Service issuing a weather advisory. Police Identify Woman’s Body Found in Burtonsville   Police Release Surveillance Video from Germantown […]

With about nine more weeks of winter and freezing temperatures forecast for next week, Montgomery County’s salt trucks are ready. The county has about 75,000 tons of salt stockpiled, said Jeff Knutsen, chief of field operations in division of highway service, DOT. This week, trucks were out Monday afternoon and continued working until about 6 […]

The General Assembly is expected to do something they haven’t been able to do for 10 years: Pass legislation that would strip the parental rights of rapists. The measure has failed to pass each time it has come up over the past decade. This year, Gov. Larry Hogan, Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. […]