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School officials showed off the new Thomas Edison High School of Technology on Wednesday, where students can prepare for careers including culinary, health, information technology, cosmetology, construction and automotive industries. The $119.7 million school in Silver Spring also includes a Junior Achievement financial center that will introduce personal budgeting to seventh-graders. Many of the programs […]

For a second year in a row, the city of Rockville has received a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Municipal Equality Index. More than 500 cities from across the country, including 10 in Maryland, were rated by the HRC on their commitment to the health, welfare, safety and equality of its lesbian, gay, […]

This story was updated at 3:45 p.m. Thursday. The man whose body was found in a Germantown home Wednesday was identified as Richard Michael Bauer, 69, of the 19200 block of Cross Ridge Drive, Montgomery County police said. Police said they are still awaiting autopsy results from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore.  Police […]

Montgomery County police said someone fired a weapon, possibly a pellet gun, at police cruisers when officers were responding to a large group of disorderly people. The Silver Spring police district officers were sent to the 7900 block of Georgia Avenue about 8:45 p.m. Tuesday, police said. Some of the people were at the 7900 […]

A woman has died when the motor scooter she was riding on was hit from behind by a car, Montgomery County police said. The collision occurred about 11:30 p.m. Oct. 1 in the eastbound lane of Veirs Mill Road and Aspen Hill Road, police said. Maria Delmis Lemus-Nolasco, 24, of Epping Road in Silver Spring […]

A Charles County man died Friday afternoon at a worksite in Bethesda, Montgomery County police said. Bryan Frederick McGinn, 43, of Purcell Road in Port Tobacco, was killed about 1:30 p.m. as he was dismantling a pressurized tank, police said. For some reason, he was struck by a pipe which had been affixed to the […]

Takoma Park police are investigating a sexual assault that took place Saturday in the 7700 block of Carroll Avenue, a police statement said. A 46-year-old woman was passing out brochures near Carroll and Flower avenues when she was approached by and assaulted by a man, police said. He grabbed her and made physical sexual advances […]

A social media threat prompted Montgomery County police to arrest two teenagers on Montgomery College’s Germantown campus on Friday. Menlik N. Sirleaf, 17, lives in the 18700 block of Walkers Choice Road in Gaithersburg, and is charged as an adult with gun and assault offenses, a Montgomery County police statement said. He is being held […]

The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued a dense fog advisory for Montgomery County until 10 a.m. Monday morning. Areas of dense fog will cause sudden reductions in visibility and rapidly changing conditions. Motorists should be aware that when encountering a patch of dense fog visibility will be reduced to less than one-quarter mile. The NWS advises […]

President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. flag to be flown at half staff from sunrise to sunset on Oct. 7 in honor of the National Firefighters Memorial Service. As a matter of protocol, the Maryland flag will be lowered to half staff as well because no flag may fly higher than the United States […]