Montgomery Community Media

UPDATED Montgomery County Police Officer Noah Leotta, who was struck by a vehicle one week ago today while working as part of a Holiday Task Force in Rockville, has passed away at a local hospital. The Montgomery County Police Department paid tribute to Leotta today outside the Wheaton Police Station on Randolph Road. Leotta, 24, […]

The smaller of the two giant panda cubs born at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo on Aug. 22, died shortly after 2 p.m. on Wednesday. According to a news release posted on the Zoo’s website, the panda team rotated both cubs in the past 24 hours allowing each to benefit from spending time with their mother, […]

UPDATED A 49-year-old Washington, D.C. woman was struck and killed by a vehicle as she stood near a bus stop in White Oak on Wednesday. According to a police account, police officers and Montgomery County fire rescue crews responded for the report of a pedestrian struck in the 1000 block of Cresthaven Drive in White […]

UPDATED, Feb. 9, 2:37 p.m. Police said the man fatally shot himself. The situation is over, according to police. UPDATED, Feb. 9, 11 a.m. – Montgomery County Police say the man who barricaded himself on the property of  a landscaping company in Silver Spring is an employee of that company, Brookeville Landscape Supply. Police report that […]

With deep sadness, the City of Takoma Park announced the death of Ward 3 Councilmember Kay Daniels-Cohen (71) on February 20. According to a city news release, she died after a long and vigorous battle with cancer. “Her positive vitality through her illness was awe-inspiring as she worked hard to serve her constituents despite suffering the effects of […]