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Chanting “We don’t want the school to close,” a group of Gaithersburg Elementary School parents stood side by side at a meeting Monday night, urging Montgomery County, Maryland, public school leaders to avoid consolidating a school they’ve grown to love. “Other schools, but not this one,”...

A Gaithersburg man has been sentenced to 100 years in prison, with all but 35 years suspended, for opening fire on two people at Welsh Park in Rockville in October 2024. Kenneth Oates, 40, was sentenced on Monday, October 19, in Montgomery County Circuit Court by Judge Carlos Acosta. He will also serve five years of supervised probation upon his release.

A Montgomery County couple is celebrating an early Halloween treat after winning $30,000 on a Maryland Lottery 30X Cash scratch-off ticket purchased in Clarksburg. The couple, who are using the aliases “Robert and Linda,” visited Maryland Lottery headquarters on October 19 to claim their prize, bringing Halloween masks along for the occasion.

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. - Detectives are asking for the public's help to identify suspects connected to a widespread series of overnight restaurant burglaries across Fairfax County. How the break-ins happened. The backstory:. The pattern began on July 13 at Taco Bamba on Backlick Road in Springfield, where opening employees arrived...

WASHINGTON (7News) — An accused MS-13 gang member with a lengthy criminal history was arrested in Washington, D.C., by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Emerson Jossiel Calderon-Hernandez, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, was picked up on Oct. 13. Calderon-Hernandez was...

A 33-year-old Alexandria man is being held without bond after allegedly robbing a West End grocery store with an air gun. On Sunday, Sept. 20, the manager of the Safeway at 299 S. Van Dorn Street reported that two men walked into the store and waited at the customer service counter, where cigarettes are sold. The manager said that one of the men seemed drunk and displayed a firearm, assaulted him, and then stole a pack of cigarettes and a bottle of beer from the store, according to a recently re

Crust & Crumb, a new Asian bakery and cafe, is now open at 718 Rockville Pike in Rockville, taking over the former Roy Rogers location. The bakery offers a variety of Asian-inspired baked goods, pastries, coffee, specialty teas and desserts. Specialty drinks include taro milk tea, brown sugar oat lattes, passion fruit green tea, mango pomelo sago and cookies and cream frappes. The dessert menu also features shaved ice, snowflake ice and tofu pudding.

The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office investigated a bomb threat at President Donald J. Trump International Airport in Florida. BY: UNSPLASH Authorities investigated a suspicious phone call reported at President Donald J. Trump International Airport in Florida on October 18, hours before President Donald Trump‘s scheduled departure for Washington, D.C. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office later confirmed that a bomb threat had been reported. Airport threat The incident occurred just hours bef

U.S. News & World Report has released its annual rankings of elementary and middle schools, with schools across D.C., Maryland and Virginia earning top spots. The rankings are based largely on state standardized test results, according to Eric Brooks, U.S. News & World Report’s director of education data analysis.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Ross Hodge spoke the obvious on Sunday. The WVU men's basketball coach had no other choice following Maryland's 90-81 overtime exhibition victory inside the Xfinity Center. "Ultimately, I felt like it was their physicality with (Pharrel) Payne and (Andre) Mills," Hodge said. "Their physicality, their ability...