Montgomery Community Media

Two workers stuck in a bucket lift more than 100 feet high inside the atrium of an FDA building on New Hampshire Avenue had to be extricated via an outside window early Wednesday morning. Montgomery County Fire and Rescue workers had to remove a window of the building from the roof outside to reach the […]

Montgomery County Public Schools and administrative offices will open two hours late today, Jan. 14, due to emergency weather conditions. Day care programs may open as scheduled.  Bus service will be provided on a two-hour-delayed schedule. Morning prekindergarten, morning half-day Head Start, other morning half-day programs and field trips are canceled. Other activities and programs […]

As the Maryland General Assembly heads into session in Annapolis Jan. 14, Governor-elect Larry Hogan has said he plans to put resources statewide into battling what he has called a “heroin epidemic.” Montgomery County Police Capt. Darren Francke spoke to MyMCMedia about the incidences of heroin use in Montgomery County. Francke said the county is […]

Here are the Five Things You Need to Know, today, Jan. 14 in Montgomery County. 1- Drive carefully this morning. Forecasters are predicting some dicey weather. 2- Tips on the Hoggle case are slowing as the toddlers are now missing for more than four months. Hear about one police ran down recently. 3- Montgomery County […]

Montgomery County has had than double the number of reported homicides in 2014 than in 2013. Last year, there were 19 homicides. That compares to 8 in 2013. But, Capt. Darren Francke, director of the department’s Major Crimes Division, said the number is not alarming. He talks about the county’s homicide rate in this MyMcMedia […]

The Potomac man convicted in a road rage case in the parking lot of the Westfield Montgomery Mall last year, was sentenced Tuesday to serve eight years in prison. Judge Cheryl A. McCally sentenced David Benjamin Goldberg, 26 of Potomac, to 20 years in jail but suspended all but eight of those years. The November […]

Tips from people who believe they may have seen the missing Hoggle toddlers are “slowing,” according to Montgomery County Police Capt. Darren Francke. Francke, director of the department’s Major Crimes Division, said his officers run out every tip and most recently have gone to investigate sightings in Frederick County’s Costco and Olive Garden restaurant. None […]

Searchers are scouring Taylor’s Mountain in Bedford County, Va. as new leads point them to an area police say might contain the remains of the missing Lyon sisters. Montgomery County Police have eight investigators participating in that search this week, according to Montgomery County Police Capt. Darren Francke, director of the department’s Division of Major […]

There is a renewed effort for a MoveOn.org petition to encourage the Montgomery County Public Schools to change the start time for classes. The petition, that suggests MCPS start high school classes after 8:15 a.m. has about 12,283 signatures. It has a stated goal of 15,000 signatures. The Montgomery County Board of Education is considering […]

Nancy Dacek, a three-term member of the Montgomery County Council died Monday. She was 81. Dacek, a Republican who served as the District 2 representative on the council, was described in a Montgomery County proclamation as an “advocate for the upcounty area.” Dacek served as the council’s liaison to the Fire and Rescue Services Department and was […]