Montgomery Community Media

  UPDATE: A 31-year-old man is charged in a Silver Spring stabbing that occurred Wednesday night on Piney Branch Road in Silver Spring. On Thursday, detectives charged Ulises A. Blanco-Melgar,  31, of no fixed address, with one count of attempt first-degree murder, one count of first-degree assault, and one count of second-degree assault. Blanco-Melgar is […]

UPDATED Talk about a highway delivery. An Adamstown woman gave birth to a baby boy on southbound Interstate 270, near Middlebrook Road, shortly before 6 a.m. on June 6 in the Germantown area. Fire and Rescue Spokesperson Pete Piringer reported on his Twitter account that both mother and baby are doing fine. Piringer said the […]

A woman walking her dog on Blunt Road and Brink Road tonight (May 27) around 7 p.m. was struck down by a nearby lightning strike. Fire and Rescue Spokesperson Pete Piringer said the woman was transported to the hospital with serious but not life threatening injuries. No other information about this incident has been released […]

A teenage boy was transported to the hospital on May 26 after he nearly drowned in a pool at an apartment complex on Stewart Lane in White Oak, according to a fire and rescue official. Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Spokesperson Pete Piringer reported the incident on his Twitter account. No other information about this […]

Montgomery County firefighters and emergency medics were called to the scene of what a fire official described as a “possible electrocution” in Chevy Chase shortly around 7 p.m. on May 24. On his Twitter account, Fire and Rescue Spokesperson Pete Piringer reported that emergency medical crews evaluated three patients for electric shock in the 200 […]

UPDATED Montgomery County police were called to Walter Johnson High School, 6400 Rock Spring Drive in Bethesda, at 12:54 p.m. today for the report of a stabbing involving two students and a pair of scissors. Police Spokesperson Janelle Smith said one student was transported to the hospital. Fire Rescue Spokesperson Pete Piringer confirmed on Twitter […]

UPDATED Montgomery County police are investigating an officer involved shooting in the 7400 block of Lake Katrine Terrace in Gaithersburg. It happened shortly after 8 p.m. on Jan. 29. “There was some type of domestic dispute. The officer observed his son attacking his wife with some type of sharp instrument, observed some type of stabbing […]

UPDATED Montgomery County firefighters are investigating a fatal kitchen fire in Kensington. It happened at 4:30 a.m. on Jan. 22 in the 3900 block of Decatur Avenue. At the scene, firefighters found a 70-year-old man severely burned in the kitchen area of the home. According to a fire official, preliminary information indicates the man was […]

UPDATED A 10-year-old child, identified by police as D’Angelo Jayvon McMullen, has died after falling through the ice on a sediment pond in Gaithersburg, according to Assistant Fire Chief Scott Graham of the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service (MCFRS). Late in the afternoon of Jan. 13, Montgomery County fire rescue units were called to […]

UPDATED Montgomery County police and fire rescue units responded to a multi-vehicle accident at Great Seneca Highway and Longdraft Road on New Year’s Day. According to Montgomery County police, the call came in at 4:46 p.m. on Jan. 1 and southbound Great Seneca Highway was closed at Horn Point Drive during the police investigation and […]