Return to Washington Examiner Homepage
May 24, 2013 | 11:50 AM
kate jacobson
Washington D.C. weather
  • Montgomery County police look to add positions in Wheaton, Montgomery Village

    Kate Jacobson

    Published: Thu, Apr 11, 2013

    Montgomery County police want to add 23 patrol officers in fiscal 2014, some of whom will be placed in Wheaton and Montgomery Village to curb the areas' high crime rates. Wheaton and Montgomery Village have the second- and third-highest crime rates in the county, only slightly behind Silver...

  • Montgomery County Council looks to reduce energy tax

    Kate Jacobson

    Updated: Tue, Apr 9, 2013

    Montgomery County taxpayers would save up to $11 million in energy taxes if a measure by the County Council to reduce the tax is approved. Two proposed bills would reduce the 155 percent increase on energy taxes imposed on county residents in fiscal 2011. One introduced by Council President...

  • Silver Spring Transit Center opening more than a year away

    Kate Jacobson

    Published: Tue, Apr 9, 2013

    Commuterslikely will have to wait more than a yearto use theproblem-plagued Silver Spring Transit Center,a Montgomery County official said Tuesday. County Director of General Services David Dise told the County Council it willtakeanother six weeksfordesign fixes to be drafted. Construction...

  • Montgomery County water main break not detected by monitoring equipment

    Kate Jacobson

    Published: Mon, Apr 8, 2013

    Water commission officials say their monitoring system was not extensive enough to alert them to a water main break in Chevy Chase that caused headaches for Montgomery County commuters in mid-March. Officials told a Montgomery County Council committee the break on the pipe, which burst on...

  • Lockheed Martin tax exemption bill passes House, heads to governor

    Kate Jacobson

    Published: Mon, Apr 8, 2013

    The Maryland General Assembly passed legislation exempting Lockheed Martin from paying about $450,000 a year in hotel taxes to Montgomery County, a measure that the Montgomery County Council shot down a year ago. The nation's largest defense contractor offers a training center at its Bethesda...

  • Festival draws millions, despite late blooms

    Kate Jacobson

    Updated: Sat, Apr 6, 2013

    Tom and Lynne Zidelis drove nearly 500 miles to see Washington D.C.'s famed cherry blossoms, and despite the lack of blooms, they weren't disappointed. "The weather has been fabulous," Tom Zidelis, a 49-year-old Douglas, Mass., man, said while eating lunch on the lawn near the Tidal Basin. "We...

  • Naked crocodile racer, lottery winner chooses to stay homeless, mowing sheep

    Kate Jacobson

    Published: Sat, Apr 6, 2013

    What did an Australian man do for two cases of whiskey? A man in Australia paddled naked across crocodile-infested waters on a log to win a bet that equaled two cases of Jack Daniels. While he and his buddies were fishing the Daly River in Australia in the country's Northern Territory, one...

  • Crash kills 20-year-old Germantown woman

    Kate Jacobson

    Updated: Sat, Apr 6, 2013

    An early Saturday morning crash in Montgomery County killed 20-year-old Colleen Nicole Bell of Germantown. Police said at about 2:31 a.m., the car Bell was driving was traveling south on Mateny Road and collided with a taxi traveling east on Clopper Road. Bell's car spun 180 degrees for an...

  • Man sexually assaults woman in hotel

    Kate Jacobson

    Published: Sat, Apr 6, 2013

    A Hawaiian man staying at the Grand Hyatt Hotel on H Street NW has been arrested after police say he sexually assaulted a woman he met in a hotel lobby early Thursday morning. Police say 60-year-old David Millard, of Honolulu, Hawaii, approached an adult female and carried her against her will...

  • P.G. police arrest two in attempted robbery of elderly woman

    Kate Jacobson

    Updated: Sat, Apr 6, 2013

    Police in Prince George's County have arrested two people in connection with the robbery of an 80-year-old woman. Police charged 25-year-old LeJean Nicola Lancaster and 24-year-old Michael Elijah Brown with the crime. The incident occurred on Tuesday, and police say Brown and Lancaster took...