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Walmart has scrapped its plans to build a store in Aspen Hill. The company had been looking to open a 118,000-square-foot store with expanded grocery offerings at the site that would have employed 300 people. “I can confirm that Walmart has decided not to move forward with the Aspen Hill project,” said Walmart spokesman William […]

At the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair in Gaithersburg, you can watch bees making honey and now you can see bears as well. New to the fair is A Grizzly Experience from southwest Florida, where two Alaskan grizzly bears wrestle and roll around together in a caged area on the fairgrounds. A Grizzly Experience is a private […]

The Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County just launched a pilot program for eligible residents of its Stewartown Homes community in Gaithersburg that will help them afford new laptops. Watch the full press conference here.

Two teens who police say are associated with a gang call “Little r” are under arrest in connection with a shooting of an 18-year-old woman in Wheaton. According to a news release, police believe that gang members thought the victim was divulging information about gang activity to police, and the two suspects conspired to shoot […]

Nine people were forced from their homes and two were injured in a fire at a Rockville apartment complex in the early morning hours Friday. According to Tweets from Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Spokesman Pete Piringer, the fire at at four-story apartment complex on Burnside Drive caused $75,000 in damages. He tweeted the cause […]

Swimming at Montgomery Parks’ Lake Needwood has always been off limits, but park officials warn that elevated levels of a toxic bacteria found in the water right now can also make you sick. The parks department issued the warning in late July and it could stay up until November depending on the amount of rainfall […]

A 48-year-old Rockville man was arrested July 31 after police said he exposed himself to an 8-year-old girl on a Metrobus. Mario Amaro is alleged to have exposed himself to the  girl seated next to him aboard a Metrobus bus that was en route to Silver Spring Station on July 9 at about 4:30 p.m. The incident was […]

As if turning 100 isn’t enough of a momentous occasion, Germantown’s Donatila Leticia Munoz Orantes, also became a U.S. citizen on her birthday. Orantes turned 100 years old on July 30 and to celebrate she was at the Baltimore district office of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, taking her oath of citizenship. She was born in Nicaragua and […]

Montgomery County Police are asking the public for help in finding a missing Wheaton teen. Alexandra Lexus Innis, 14, was last seen near her home  in the 4000 Block of Peppertree Lane on July 30. Alexandra is described as a black female, 5’06” tall, 160 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair with the right […]

The Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County launched the first program of its kind in the nation that will help low-income family buy new laptops. MyMCMedia’s Krista Brick reports.