Montgomery Community Media

Rep. Elijah Cummings is being remembered for his devotion to civil rights, Maryland and Baltimore. He died early Thursday morning at Johns Hopkins Hospital from complications of health ailments. He was 68. Cummings served 22 years in the U.S. Congress after serving 13 years in the House of Delegates, rising to be Speaker Pro Tem. […]

A girl, possibly about 3 years old, fell out of a ninth-floor window Wednesday, and suffered only minor injuries, Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service spokesman Pete Piringer said. The child likely landed on bushes or mulch, Piringer said. An ambulance from the Hillandale Volunteer Fire Department took the girl to a hospital, he said. […]

Update, Oct. 16: Flor Maria Peguero has been found safe and unharmed, a Montgomery County police statement says. Original post, Oct. 4: Detectives from the Montgomery County police Special Victims Investigations Division are asking the public for help in locating a missing Gaithersburg juvenile. Flor Maria Peguero, 14, of Muddy Branch Road, was last seen […]

Montgomery County flags are at half-staff outside the Executive Office Building in Rockville in honor of the police officer who was killed Monday. ”We had a police officer who passed away on Monday, and I think the immediate reaction is to lower the county flags,” said Neil Greenberger, county spokesman. Officer Thomas J. Bomba was […]

A woman says she was inappropriately touched by a man as she was walking in Chevy Chase, a Montgomery County police statement said. Bethesda police district detectives have released a computer composite of the man and is asking anyone with information to contact investigators. The incident occurred about 10:45 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 26, as the […]

This is the full press conference in Rockville.

Gov. Larry Hogan toured Mars Symbioscience in Germantown on Tuesday morning. Mars Symbioscience is a technology-based health and life sciences business that was established in 2005. It’s other business segments include CocoaVia, Mars Sustainable Solutions, Mars Biomedical, and The Mars Center For Cocoa Health Science. Mars Symbioscience informs the practices of these businesses through scientific […]

After 70 years of serving the Silver Spring community, the Woodside Deli on Georgia Avenue closed its doors for the final time on Sunday. “A sad day for Montgomery County,” Alexa Margolis, manager at the deli, told MCM. “It was definitely a shock.” News of the deli closing was first reported by The MoCo Show. […]

A Washington, D.C., man was arrested on a gun charge after a traffic stop in downtown Silver Spring, according to a Montgomery County police statement. Kriss Smith, 26, of the 2600 block of Q Street in Southeast, Washington, D.C., posted a $2,000 bond and was released, according to online court records. About 12:19 a.m. Saturday, […]

A former Maryland state delegate who was a member of the influential House Appropriations Committee has been charged with federal wire fraud by the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Tawanna P. Gaines, 67, of Berwyn, resigned Monday. She joined the House in 2001 when she was appointed to fill a vacancy. She represented District 22 in Prince […]