Rockville – Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service rescued a 10-year-old boy from a burning house in the 200 block of Elizabeth Avenue in Rockville yesterday morning. Firefighters were dispatched at 0727 for the report of a house fire. First-arriving units encountered heavy smoke and fire from the structure. Firefighters rushed in and pulled an [...]
Cell phones can now be used to pay for parking at nearly 12,000 meters in County Parking Lot Districts with the recent conversion of 1,089 meters in North Bethesda. Since March of this year, parking meters in Bethesda, Silver Spring, Wheaton and Montgomery Hills were converted. To use pay-by-cell, first-time patrons register for the program [...]
Montgomery County’s Long Term Care Ombudsman Program is seeking individuals interested in helping to enhance the quality of life for nursing home residents as long-term care advocates with the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services. Volunteers will be assigned to make regular visits to residents in nursing homes and assisted living facilities at [...]
(PRINCESS ANNE, MD) – Maryland State Police have initiated an investigation and are processing the scene where a body was found late this afternoon in a rural area of Somerset County. Identification of the body cannot be immediately made. The body is being transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore for [...]
Paul Robinson, 34, of Great Mills, Maryland, has pled guilty to one count of distribution of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ronald C. Machen Jr.; U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; James W. McJunkin, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office; Richard A. [...]
(Glen Burnie, MD) – Maryland State Police criminal investigators from the Glen Burnie Barrack arrested a 32 year old New Jersey man yesterday on several criminal charges including human trafficking. Uzodimma Nnamdi Oguh, 32, of the 200 block of Parker Road, in Elizabeth, New Jersey was being held at the Anne Arundel County Detention Center [...]
By Elaine Sanchez American Forces Press ServiceBETHESDA, Md., Sept. 8, 2011 – Military and civilian officials — along with an ice hockey legend — gathered here yesterday to officially open a new playroom for children of wounded warriors seeking treatment at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Hockey legend Mario Lemieux, his wife, Nathalie, and [...]
Maryland State Police are joining their partners at the State Highway Administration and Maryland Emergency Management Agency in urging motorists to use caution as they travel during the ongoing heavy rain, especially during the rush hours tonight and tomorrow morning. Drivers are reminded that the ongoing heavy rain is contributing to water laying on roadway [...]
WASHINGTON—Stewart David Nozette, a scientist who once worked for the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the White House’s National Space Council, pleaded guilty today to attempted espionage for providing classified information to a person he believed to be an Israeli intelligence officer. The guilty plea, which [...]
Montgomery County’s Fetal & Infant Mortality Review (FIMR) Board and its Community Action Team (CAT) are supporting events in September designed to highlight efforts to reduce infant mortality in the community as part of National Infant Mortality Awareness Month. Infant mortality refers to the number of infant deaths per 1,000 live births during the first [...]
