Kate Jacobson

Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

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...

Kytja Weir

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

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: 2 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...

Kevin Dunleavy

Updated: 20 hr ago

Suburban Md. school in Division III title game It was interesting that Stevenson University junior Brent Hiken estimated his faceoff counterpart in the NCAA semifinals to be 6-foot-5 and 280 pounds. Salisbury senior Tyler Granell is actually 6-3 and 215 pounds. Such is the perception that...

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...

Kate Jacobson

Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

A Montgomery County panel will explore loosening liquor laws and integrating more bars and restaurants aimed at young people in new developments in an effort to make the county more hip. The county's Nighttime Economy Task Force, created earlier this month, has started meeting to find ways to...

Kytja Weir

Updated: 23 hr ago

Capital Bikeshare has shiny red bikes on street corners all over the region, with plans to expand. But surprisingly, those cherry red numbers haven't been stolen very often. Only 15 bikes have gone missing out of the 1,900 bikes ordered for the bikesharing service since it began in fall 2010,...

Scott McCabe

Yesterday

Rick Curl, whose Northern Virginia swim club has produced dozens of 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...