Montgomery Community Media

Montgomery County COVID-19 Statistics The Maryland Department of Health reported 438 new COVID-19 cases in Montgomery County Wednesday morning. The county’s cumulative case count is 40,500. The county has a rolling seven-day average of 6.32% for positive COVID-19 tests, which is an increase of 0.02 from Tuesday’s average rate of 6.3%. The county’s positivity rate is lower […]

Montgomery County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) is preparing for the first snow of the winter season, but this year’s preparation looks different than year’s past because of the coronavirus. The National Weather Service currently projects that on Wednesday northern parts of Montgomery County could receive up to 10 inches of snow and down county could […]

Estadísticas de COVID-19 del condado de Montgomery El Departamento de Salud de Maryland informó de 341 nuevos casos de COVID-19 en el condado de Montgomery, el martes por la mañana. El recuento acumulativo de casos del condado es 40,062. El número de casos nuevos diarios ha superado los 300 por duodécimo día consecutivo. El condado […]

Montgomery County COVID-19 Statistics The Maryland Department of Health reported 341 new COVID-19 cases in Montgomery County Tuesday morning. The county’s cumulative case count is 40,062. The number of daily new cases has been above 300 for the twelth consecutive day. The county has a rolling seven-day average of 6.3% for positive COVID-19 tests, which is an […]

Montgomery County Police Department charged Wesley Phillip Wilson, 40, with the Nov. 28 armed robbery of a TD Bank in Bethesda. On Nov. 28, around 12:30 p.m. police responded to the TD Bank on 8101 Wisconsin Avenue for the report of an armed robbery. Detectives investigated that the suspect (unidentified at the time) passed a […]

Takoma Park Mayor Kate Stewart took to Twitter to say that the Takoma Park police officer charged with sexual abuse of a minor has been suspended without pay, including the suspension of his police powers, pending the outcome of the investigation. Corporal Eric Mueller, 42, is also charged with sex offender, which is a fourth-degree […]

Gov. Larry Hogan will provide an update on the state’s plan to distribute the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Hogan’s briefing comes a day after the first Pfizer vaccines were administered in the state Monday. Watch the briefing live below: Hogan’s address will be streamed live Tuesday at 4 p.m. on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Today at […]

MedStar Health, which includes Montgomery Medical Center in Olney, is preparing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer pharmaceutical company this week and already has purchased several ultra-cold freezers to store it. MedStar employees are working with Maryland and the District of Columbia to obtain the vaccines for frontline workers. It also is educating its […]

Surveillance video released Monday shows a suspect in a home invasion robbery in Gaithersburg, the Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) said. Police are asking residents for help identifying the suspect in the following video: MCPD said detectives do not think the November robbery was random. Close to midnight on Nov. 9, police said, officers responded […]

A garbage truck driver dumped a load of the vehicle’s trash onto westbound East West Highway, in front of Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School because the load was on fire. The incident happened around 3 p.m. on Monday. Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services spokesperson Pete Piringer tweeted that the fire was extinguished and there were […]