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Gaithersburg will bring back its Summer Outdoor Concert Series to the Concert Pavilion this summer. The series will feature both kid-friendly artists and a variety of other performers. Saints Row Brewing will offer on-site drinks and food trucks. The events will take place on Wednesdays and Thursdays and concert-goers are invited to bring a blanket or lawn chair. (MoCoShow)

The debate over LGBTQ+ inclusive material continues in Montgomery County as parents descended on the school board meeting Tuesday -- all over the county's opt-out policy for certain books approved for the classroom. FOX 5's Katie Barlow was at the meeting.

The victim is recovering from non-life-threatening injuries. Gaithersburg, MD – (From Montgomery County Department of Police) “A 16-year-old girl is recovering after being shot during a block party in Silver Spring. On Friday, June 2, 2023, at approximately 9:58 p.m., Montgomery County Department of Police – 3rd District...

June 7 – Mr. Jon & Friends (Rock & Rhyme Music) June 14 – The Grandsons, Jr. (Country Music Duo) June 21 – Marsha & the Positrons (Kindie – kids & indie – Rock Band) June 28 – Lilo Gonzalez (International Music) July 12...

WASHINGTON — A shooting has left a man dead in Southeast D.C. early Wednesday morning and police searching for answers in the homicide case. Officers with the Metropolitan Police Department responded to 3rd Street Southeast, Atlantic Street Southeast, around 2:30 a.m. after receiving a report of a shooting in the area. Upon arrival, they found a man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to his upper torso.

Rockville City police responded to a report of an aggravated assault in the Twinbrook area of the city early yesterday morning, June 5, 2023. The assault was reported in a commercial parking lot in the 2100 block of Veirs Mill Road at 12:47 AM Monday. A weapon was employed in the assault, but it was not a gun.

WASHINGTON D.C., DC — The 43-year-old single mother who allegedly caused a deadly crash on Rock Creek Parkway will remain in jail until her trial. The judge said Tuesday that Nakita Walker's five previous DUIs are one of the reasons she remains a danger to the community. The mother...

SUITLAND, Md. (WJLA) — A deadly shooting erupted during the burial of a 10-year-old girl that was shot and killed by a stray bullet in Washington, D.C. on Mother's Day, according to authorities. The Prince George's County Police Department said a man was shot and killed at Washington National...

WASHINGTON (7News) — D.C. Police are on scene after a fatal shooting in Southeast Tuesday night, officials said. Police received a call just before 6:40 p.m. about a shooting in the 4700 block of S. Capitol Street SE. Upon arrival, officers located a man suffering from gunshot wounds and he was pronounced dead on the scene, police explained.

WASHINGTON– (DC News Now)–She was only 10 years old. However, Arianna Davis provided so much joy to so many people. A large crowd filled the Temple of Praise Church Tuesday for Davis’ funeral. “This is not normal,” said her uncle, Pastor Jody Fletcher, who helped preside over the service. Davis was shot May 14 along […]

BALTIMORE -- The smoke from the fires in Ontario and Québec is only going to get worse in the next day or so. There is a Code Red air-quality alert for Maryland on Wednesday because there is the potential for more smoke, which will cause big problems for some people—especially those with respiratory issues. The air-quality alert goes all the way out to Washington County and it goes all the way to Southern Maryland and the Eastern Shore.There's a northerly wind, and the smoke on a northerly wind is going to get pulled southward. So, as long as the pattern remains in place, which will likely be through Thursday, it is going to keep driving more plumes of smoke toward Maryland. There is not going to be a change in upper-level winds to get the smoke out of here until the weekend. That is when conditions should improve across the area.

Police say that shortly before 10 a.m. on Friday, June 2, officers responded to a block party in the 11400 block of Stewart Lane in Silver Spring where a 16-year-old was shot during a hit-and-run that marred the neighborly celebration. A group of people were at the block party when...

The rally which was happening while the Board of Education meeting took place inside, had to do with LGBTQ materials in the school district and parents having the option to opt their kids out of certain materials. Two groups rallied on Tuesday in front of the Montgomery …. The rally...

WASHINGTON (7News) — The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating a deadly car crash on I-395 in Southwest D.C. on Sunday. At Approximately 7:45 p.m., a Hyundai Elantra was traveling southbound in the 9th Street tunnel, police said. The driver of the car began to take the westbound ramp and struck the jersey wall twice for reasons unknown, causing the car to crash over the wall and onto the I-395 southbound lanes below.

WASHINGTON - Smoke from Canadian wildfires has triggered a series of Air Quality Alerts across the Washington D.C., Baltimore and Virginia regions Wednesday. The smoke blanketed the Mid-Atlantic area in a haze, turning the air acrid, the sky yellowish gray, and prompted warnings for vulnerable populations to stay inside. The...

A Washington, D.C., transit official who got roasted on social media for posting a photo of a Metro manspreader’s crotch tweeted her apologies on Tuesday. “It was meant in jest, but I understand how it might have offended some,” wrote Sarah Meyer, chief experience officer of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. “I will do better and keep focused on what matters, better service, communications and wayfinding.” Meyer had earlier tweeted out a picture of a khaki-clad man taking up well more than one seat by not keeping his knees together with the caption: “DC, do we really need to do a manspreading campaign on our trains?! I thought we were above this.” As the Washington Examiner reported, some commenters thought the photo was invasive and creepy.Read it at Washington Examiner

A popular bank is closing thirty-one branches in Maryland. A major bank is closing thirty-one locations across Maryland over the next there months. PNC Bank, which operates 2,629 branches in 27 states, has announced the branch closures. It has already closed 19 PNC branches in Maryland this year.

Miss Toya’s Southern Kitchen at 229 Boardwalk Pl. in Gaithersburg will open this Friday, June 9. Miss Toya’s is located in the 2,741SF space that was previously occupied by BGR and will serve southern-influenced dishes such as red beans and rice, macaroni and cheese, and a southern fried chicken sandwich.

BETHESDA, Md. (FOX 5 DC) - When children are shot and survive, all too often they don’t get the mental health services they need. That’s according to a new study released this week. It’s research that resonates across the United States, including in the DMV. For instance, a...

Spy Robert Hanssen, a former Vienna resident who passed along secrets to the Soviet Union and Russia via a nearby park, died yesterday (Monday) in a Colorado federal prison. Hanssen, 79, was an FBI counterintelligence agent who was sentenced to life in prison in 2002 for passing classified information to Soviet (later Russian) intelligence.