Silver Spring MD

Maryland-National Capital Park Police are asking for the public’s help identifying a suspect involved in an aggravated assault that occurred on November 1, 2025, along the Northwest Branch Trail in Silver Spring. The suspect is described as a Hispanic male between 18 and 22 years old with a slim build, wearing dark...

ICE Baltimore says it arrested Kevin Alexis Mendez-Ortiz late last month, during a targeted operation in Oxon Hill. According to the agency, Mendez-Ortiz is a Honduran national who crossed into the US illegally in 2022 and was released the same day — and is now accused of causing a violent crash that nearly killed a...

On December 9, 2025, a shooting took place in the 2500 block of Naylor Road, Southeast. Police said the incident happened after an argument between two people. The Metropolitan Police Department responded to the scene.

Maryland’s only nuclear power plant, the Calvert Cliffs Clean Energy Center in Lusby, continues to play an outsized role in powering the state nearly 50 years after first coming online. Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Energy highlighted the facility’s national significance, noting that Calvert Cliffs...

Full disclosure: the following solution was presented to me by Dr. Thomas Day, a constituent with far greater expertise in the energy sector than I could ever claim. That said, I find his proposal both intriguing and highly achievable if only the green extremists would pause their war on anything that isn’t wind or...

Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Oakland, MD – An urgent Blizzard Warning has been issued for Western Maryland and parts of West Virginia from 10 a.m. Wednesday through 10 a.m. Thursday, according to the National Weather Service in...

COLUMBIA, Md. (WBFF) — Two female shoppers were robbed at the Mall in Columbia just after 5 p.m. Sunday. The suspect, described as "a male in a ski mask, carrying a skateboard," allegedly stole the shoes the girls were wearing and the kicks they had just purchased. Cornelious, reacting...

Mohammad Asif, 36, pleaded guilty this week to two counts of grand larceny in connection with a July heist in Fairfax County when he robbed a woman at gunpoint and made off with the cards, officials said. It all started around 9:07 a.m. on July 23, when a woman was...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — As winter tightens its grip on Maryland, the state’s wildlife is shifting into survival mode. With insects dormant, daylight shortened and many plants stripped of leaves, food becomes scarce across forests, fields and backyards. The seasonal shift forces animals to rely on strategies honed over...

GRAFTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — U.S. Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, who died last month following an attack in Washington, D.C., was laid to rest with full military honors Tuesday. Beckstrom, 20, died Nov. 27, 2025, after she was fatally wounded in the line of duty in a shooting attack the previous day near the Farragut Square...