Kate Jacobson

Updated: 2 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: 2 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: 2 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: 4 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: 4 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: 6 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

Updated: 8 hr ago

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...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

A 70-year-old Hyattsville man was found dead at an Anne Arundel County marina, police said. About 9 p.m. Wednesday,William Eckert was found in the water near his boat at Holiday Hill Marina in the Edgewater area when a family friend went to check on him. Emergency Medical Services workers came...

Matt Connolly

Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

The nation's fastest-growing cities may be in the Sun Belt, but the District and nearby Alexandria and Gaithersburg are gaining residents at a blistering pace, according to census data released Thursday. D.C.'s population grew by 5.1 percent to 632,323 from 2010 to 2012, according to the...

Andy Brownfield

Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler is weighing an appeal of a decision by the state's highest court that would cost the state's counties and Baltimore City $128 million in taxes. Maryland's Court of Appeals ruled in January that the state must offer credits to taxpayers whose out-of-state...