Naomi Jagoda

Updated: Fri, May 24, 2013

A 20-year-old man was taken into custody after using a hatchet to kill another man in Gaithersburg, police said. Claude Alexander Allen was arrested and charged with the slaying of 25-year-old Michael Phillip Harvey, Montgomery County police said. Shortly after midnight, Allen called 911 and...

Matt Connolly

Updated: 18 hr ago

Teenage birth rates dropped in D.C. and nearly every other state from 2007 to 2011, with the country as a whole hitting a record low, according to a new study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There were 42.8 births per 1,000 teenagers ages 15 to 19 in the District in...

Naomi Jagoda

Updated: 18 hr ago

A former Northern Virginia swim coach whose club has produced six Olympians was sentenced Thursday to seven years in prison for sexually abusing a girl whom he coached in the 1980s. Rick Curl, 63, pleaded guilty in February and was sentenced in Montgomery County Circuit Court. The conviction...

Kate Jacobson

Updated: 19 hr ago

Montgomery County taxpayers will begin paying higher property taxes on July 1 as the County Council approved a $4.8 billion budget on Thursday that includes multimillion-dollar pay raises for members of three county labor unions. The county will spend about $34 million for pay increases...

Andy Brownfield

Updated: 19 hr ago

A federal audit shows that Prince George's County schools misused nearly $167,000 in stimulus money on things like a microwave oven and minifridge for a school administrator, engraved watches for principals and a legal book on the firing of school employees. The audit by the U.S. Department of...

Kate Jacobson

Updated: 19 hr ago

A 50,000-pound beam collapsed on the third deck of a mall parking garage, killing one man working on the second floor and trapping another for hours. As crews labored on a new parking garage at the Westfield Montgomery Mall in Bethesda, a center concrete panel collapsed at about 1:45 p.m....

Kytja Weir

Updated: 21 hr ago

A 50-year-old Montgomery County pedestrian died after he was hit by a Metrobus late Wednesday in Olney, according to Montgomery County police. Ronald Maurice Johnson of Brookeville was hit as a Metrobus pulled away from the curb at Georgia Avenue near Olney-Sandy Spring Road around 11:08 p.m....

Scott McCabe

Updated: 21 hr ago

Rick Curl, whose Northern Virginia swim club has produced several Olympians, is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday for sexually abusing a child he coached more than 25 years ago. Curl, 63, faces up to 15 years in prison and will have to register as a sex offender, according to the Montgomery...

Kate Jacobson

Updated: 23 hr ago

Updated, 4:05 p.m. One construction worker is dead and another severely injured after a 50,000-pound piece of concrete fell and crushed them at a Montgomery County mall. Montgomery County Assistant Fire Chief Scott Graham said part of a construction site at the Westfield Montgomery Mall in...

Scott McCabe

Yesterday

Montgomery County police are investigating a stabbing of a teenager who had been playing basketball at Silver Spring park. Around 6:40 p.m. Monday, two men approached a 17-year-old at Stonegate Park and tried to engage him in a conversation. The victim became scared and began to leave. The men...