Montgomery Community Media

UPDATED, Oct. 24, 11:00 a.m. – Police have released the names of the three people who died when their helicopter collided with a Cirrus SR 22 airplane near the Frederick Municipal Airport Thursday afternoon. The three  victims are: Christopher D. Parsons, 29, of Westminster; William Jenkins, 47, of Morrison, Colo., and Breandan J. MacFawn, 35, of Cumberland. […]

Today marks the two-year anniversary of the tragic slaying of Urbana resident, Lamont Ellis. On Sept. 30, 2012, Ellis was killed in Frederick following a night out with friends. At about 1:50 a.m., while walking to his car, parked near Mullinex Alley, Lamont was shot in an apparent robbery attempt. The friends and family of Ellis have collected, through community donations, […]

Frederick County Fire/Rescue and Sheriff’s Office personnel responded to Eaglehead Drive between North Shore Way and Whistling Swan Way in Lake Linganore for a trench rescue at 3:09 p.m on Sept. 24. According to fire officials, the first arriving fire and rescue units located one adult male trapped in a trench with rapidly running water, […]

The Bethesda-Gaithersburg-Frederick corridor is number one on a list of “Most Secure Places to Live” in the large metropolitan category (population of 500,000+) in a national study conducted by Farmer’s Insurance Group.   The rankings, compiled by Sperling’s BestPlaces, took into consideration economic stability, crime statistics, extreme weather, risk of natural disasters, housing depreciation, foreclosures, […]