Montgomery Community Media

The Montgomery County Police Department is investigating several thefts from cell phone stores. Officials believe the crimes are all connected. Detectives say within three separate thefts, cell phones worth more than $9,000 were stolen. On Oct. 9, the T-Mobile Store located on the 15000 block of New Hampshire Avenue in Silver Spring was robbed around […]

Montgomery County police’s Gaithersburg District Investigative Section seeks information about six women suspected of committing a “distraction theft” at a Gaithersburg Verizon store. Police believe one of the women pretended to be pregnant to steal 29 cell phones worth around $24,000, as the other five women distracted store employees. Police say the incident happened July […]

Beginning at 11:50 p.m. Wednesday, the State Highway Administration will assist Verizon with short-term total stoppages on both directions of I-270 near MD 109 (Old Hundred Road) in northern Montgomery County. The stoppages are necessary for the company to string overhead wires as a result of recent storm damage. The brief total closures will be […]

Hundreds of Montgomery County students attended the Choose Respect Conference at Richard Montgomery High School on April 2nd. MCPS-TV has a recap. More scenes from today's @Choose_Respect healthy teen dating conference. Opening remarks will begin shortly! #RespectyourSelfie2017 pic.twitter.com/96IZ9620VU — MCPS (@MCPS) April 2, 2017 Great to see so many of our @mocoboe members, elected officials […]

Montgomery County police have released surveillance video and are asking for the public for help in identifying the person who stole headphones from a Bethesda Verizon store and assaulted a contractor in the store. Police say the thief entered the store at 6932 Wisconsin Ave. about noon Feb. 21 and went to a display rack […]

Hundreds of Verizon workers in Silver Spring walked off the job on Wednesday to strike for better benefits. The workers joined nearly 40,000 other Verizon employees along the east coast on the picket lines to fight for better benefits and job security.  The Communications Workers of America (CWA), a union that represents 700,000 workers in the United […]

Over 500 students, parents and teachers came out to Richard Montgomery High School on Sunday for an event aimed at countering teen dating violence. Students from sixth grade through high school were encouraged to attend the event to learn about healthy dating techniques and ways of countering dating abuse. Attendees were encouraged to take pictures and […]

Six students from three Montgomery middle schools got together through the Adventures in Science organization and ending up designing the app “AutBuddy,” which will help children with autism complete their schoolwork and daily tasks by utilizing customized rewards to help them stay focused. Their app won the “Best in State Award” in the Verizon Innovative […]

Montgomery County will become the first county in Maryland to join the AARP-World Health Organization Age Friendly Communities and the second to join the BrightFocus Foundation Dementia-Friendly America Initiative at County Executive Ike Leggett’s Summit on Aging Thursday in Silver Spring. The summit is part of the county’s efforts to ensure Montgomery County is a […]

This could be the biggest threat to public access in history. The cable television industry is facing huge competition, not just from the likes of DirecTV but from rapidly-deploying new technologies that threaten to suck customers away in droves. Subscribers are ‘cutting the cord’, dumping their cable TV packages and looking for other news & […]