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Four workers at juvenile site are charged

May 30, 2019 at 3:52 p.m.

Four staff members at the state's Cheltenham juvenile detention center have been charged with assaulting a 17-year-old youth who says he was held down and repeatedly kicked and punched in...

Grasmick bill seeks more financial control

March 28, 2019 at 3:50 p.m.

Invoking deficit problems in Baltimore and Prince George's County schools, state Schools Superintendent Nancy S. Grasmick said yesterday that she has drafted legislation that would give the state more control...

Youth justice centers lack staff, training

May 30, 2019 at 3:52 p.m.

The job of keeping order at Maryland's troubled juvenile detention centers is being left to a work force that is often too small and unskilled to prevent assaults or riots,...

"Tonight is a night to come together as a community," said Montgomery County Executive Douglas M. Duncan, who led last night's ceremony in Rockville. The event included remarks by one of the victim's brothers and prayers offered by religious leaders.

Hundreds remember area’s sniper victims in candlelight vigil

August 21, 2019 at 4:01 p.m.

ROCKVILLE - Friends and family members of the Washington-area sniper victims gathered last night for a candlelight vigil to honor the dead and to thank the community for remembering the...

Sunny, a 1 1/2 year-old yellow lab, bursts onto a freshly shoveled walk in Rodgers Forge Sunday as her owner Jennifer McKenzie looks on.

Snow's no obstacle for fertility patients

August 21, 2019 at 3:57 p.m.

Time waits for no man. Or embryo. Imagine enduring weeks of hormone injections, probes and antibiotics - not to mention thousands of dollars in expense - for the chance to...

A time of joy 'like New Year's Eve'

August 21, 2019 at 3:54 p.m.

Montgomery County awoke yesterday as if from a terrifying dream and saw the world begin to come slowly back into focus. Suddenly, Halloween pumpkins mattered again. And fall colors. And...

Montgomery seeks to ensure safety of voters

August 21, 2019 at 3:52 p.m.

With more than $7.7 million raised so far, the 8th District in Montgomery and Prince George's counties is the site of the nation's most expensive congressional race. It's also a...

Raul Lopez of the New York chapter of the Guardian Angels pumps gas for Monique McNamara at a service station in Alexandria, Va. The group sought to help drivers who were too scared to pump gas.

Police provide sketch of truck

August 21, 2019 at 3:51 p.m.

Police yesterday released composite images of a white box truck with weathered paint and a roll-up rear door - one of two vehicles linked by eyewitness accounts to the elusive...

Joe Riehl of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms holds a Remington bolt action rifle, an example of one of the types of guns that may have been used to kill five people.

5 killed in Md. suburb; gunman still at large

August 21, 2019 at 3:50 p.m.

SILVER SPRING - A tip about a white truck was the best lead police had last night in a string of brazen, sniper-style shootings in the heart of Montgomery County...

101 injured in Amtrak crash

August 21, 2019 at 3:48 p.m.

KENSINGTON - An Amtrak passenger train derailed in Montgomery County yesterday afternoon, injuring 101 people - at least six seriously - just 15 minutes before it was to reach its...

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