Montgomery County, MD

WASHINGTON (7News) — It was like a scene out of a Fast and the Furious movie this weekend in downtown Silver Spring. Saturday night after 10 p.m. a large crowd of people and cars gathered at the intersection of Colesville Road and Georgia Avenue. Twitter video posted by @SBetsock shows...

SILVER SPING, Md. - A dangerous and disturbing incident caught on camera shows a vehicle doing donuts in the middle of a Silver Spring intersection while a crowd of onlookers blocks traffic. The video was taken Saturday night around 11:30 p.m. and shows the intersection of Georgia Avenue and Colesville...

FAIRLAND, Md. — A man was found dead in the Fairland area of Montgomery County Tuesday night, and detectives are investigating his death as a homicide. Officers with the Montgomery County Police Department responded to a reported shooting near the intersection of Greencastle Road and Turbridge Drive around 11:15 p.m. on Tuesday, police said in a tweet late Tuesday night.

A man was found dead late Tuesday night in the Fairland area of Silver Spring, police said. Montgomery County police said in a post on Twitter that they are investigating the death as a homicide. The initial call, which came in at 11:16 p.m., was for a possible shooting, police...

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. (7News) — A local man says he lost $4,500 in a scam that is claiming a fast-growing number of victims in the DC area. 7News On Your Side first told you about the scam late last week, when Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins warned about it. It involves someone claiming to be a police officer who says you or your relatives have an arrest warrant – but you can pay money to avoid jail.

SILVER SPRING, Md. — Law enforcement in Montgomery County stopped at least one driver involved in a wild stunt that blocked a major intersection in downtown Silver Spring over the weekend. In a two-minute-long video, a witness captured a car doing donuts and burnouts around a crowd as they stopped...

An Alexandria, Virginia, man has been charged after he was accused of threatening and exposing himself to three women in the span of a week along the C&O Canal in Montgomery County, Maryland. Jose Edmundo Sanchez Jr., of Alexandria, Virginia, made his first appearance in federal court Monday; he was...

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. (FOX 5 DC) - A Montgomery County Public Schools administrator who FOX 5 found moved to Georgia last summer will retire at the end of the month. Dr. Kimberly Statham has been a top administrator in the school system for years and is one of the district’s highest paid employees making $230,500.

A Maryland legislator has asked the Mount Rainier Ethics Commission to look into Pepco’s lobbying relationship with former Mayor Malinda Miles during her closing months in office. In a June 10, 2021, letter to the city’s Ethics Commission, Del. Al Carr, a Democrat representing Kensington, Wheaton and Chevy Chase as...

Montgomery College employees will get bonuses as a “thank you” for their work during the COVID-19 pandemic. During a meeting Monday night, the college’s Board of Trustees authorized the one-time payments for all staff members, including part-time and student workers. “We’ve gone through amazing twists and turns as a broader...

Montgomery County averaged 0.7 new cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 residents Tuesday, according to the data from the county’s COVID-19 information portal. This is the lowest case rate recorded since the start of the pandemic in March 2020. Montgomery County recorded three new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, bringing the...

An impostor used a Maryland police officer's name to try to steal money from an unsuspecting victim. Earlier this month, a man posing as Montgomery County police Capt. Eric Stancliff called a man and told him there was a pending warrant for failure to respond to a jury summons, police said.

Montgomery County Police want to remind residents that designated Exchange Zones are available to complete online transactions safely. Two victims were carjacked at gunpoint on June 9 in downtown Wheaton after a meet-up for an online transaction went wrong. Although selling products on the web can be convenient, officers say it can also be a welcome opportunity for suspects looking to commit crimes such as robbery, theft, and fraud.

Growing up as a member of an observant Jewish family in a largely non-Jewish neighborhood, I was regularly pressed to explain the grip my family’s Judaism had on my life, and spent time decoding our kosher diet or observance of Shabbat. By second grade, I knew the ways I was different from everyone else: the only kid in my class unable to go to Friday night sleepovers or play in the Saturday morning neighborhood soccer league.

Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich has concerns with a proposed council bill that would require police officer recruits to complete a 30-hour community-informed policing program prior to acceptance into the academy, said County Assistant Chief Administrative Officer Caroline Sturgis, who testified on Elrich’s behalf during a council public hearing about the bill Tuesday.

It wasn’t always this bad. That’s what Catherine Wallenmeyer, leader of the Citizens For Airpark Safety in Montgomery County, said about the noise from the Montgomery County Airpark in Gaithersburg, Maryland. “The noise is constant” said Wallenmeyer, describing the aircraft noise as “unrelenting” from around 7 a.m. to, sometimes, 11:30...

(CNN) — Tom Perez, the former chair of the Democratic National Committee, announced Wednesday that he was running for governor of Maryland, seeking to succeed term-limited Republican Gov. Larry Hogan. Perez, who previously led the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division and served as Labor Secretary for then-President Barack Obama,...

The Montgomery County Council on Tuesday endorsed a $300,000 grant from the Maryland Department of Commerce to participate in a feasibility study for a Pandemic Prevention Center. In May, the county agreed to spend $500,000 to develop a business model for the center. If the center receives adequate funding and...

Montgomery County Council appointed Ken Hartman to the newly-created role of director of strategic partnerships and reappointed Megan Davey Limarzi as inspector general Tuesday. Both people received unanimous support. Hartman was approved to be the liaison between Executive Marc Elrich, his office and the county council in an effort to...