Kate Jacobson

Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

Fees retroactive to January Montgomery County has begun retroactively charging for ambulance rides. Officials started billing insurance companies for the new county ambulance fee, which was approved as of Jan. 1. But because the county didn't receive approval from the federal government to...

Scott McCabe

Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

A District man has been arrested in connection with 10 office burglaries in Rockville and Bethesda. Montgomery County police said the burglar used a flat-head screwdriver to force himself into the office suites to steal electronics and other property. During one burglary he stole a credit card...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

Police in Montgomery County issued nearly 140 traffic citations Friday night during a campaign to enforce the nighttime use of seat belts. From about 7:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. on Friday, officers stationed themselves at entrance and exit ramps of Interstate 270 and the Capital Beltway. Officers...

Steve Contorno

Published: Sun, May 12, 2013

Water main fixed after massive flooding Workers from DC Water repaired a busted water main early Sunday morning at 17th Street between Rhode Island and Pennsylvania avenues NW, but not before millions of gallons of water flooded a construction site. Local businesses and residences were...

Steve Contorno

Published: Sun, May 12, 2013

Authorities in Montgomery County are asking for help locating a Silver Spring boy with a medical condition who has been missing since Friday. Daniel Juwan Howard, 17, was last seen wearing blue jeans, a black T-shirt and black boots. The Montgomery County Police Family Crimes Division...

Kate Jacobson

Updated: Fri, May 10, 2013

Editor's note: This article has been updated to reflect corrections to the size of the WSSC rate increase and its budget, and to clarify that utility workers, not county employees, will be receiving raises. Workers at Montgomery and Prince George's counties' water and sewer provider will...

Scott McCabe

Published: Thu, May 9, 2013

Sheriff Popkin is asking gun owners who no longer want their guns to turn them in on Saturday, no questions asked. Montgomery County is one of 20 counties around the state collecting guns. Weapons and bullets can be turned in between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. at Public Safety Headquarters in...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Wed, May 8, 2013

A District Heights man who was a pimp for two prostitutes working at a Hilton hotel in Rockville was sentenced Wednesday to 10 1/2 years in prison. Nahshon Kornegay, 31, was sentenced in Montgomery County Circuit Court. He had been found guilty of human-trafficking, prostitution and drug...

Scott McCabe and Naomi Jagoda

Updated: Tue, May 7, 2013

D.C. cop accused of money laundering for drug dealer A District of Columbia police officer has been charged in a federal money laundering investigation in Pennsylvania. Jared Weinberg was arrested Monday at the Fourth District station on Georgia Avenue in upper Northwest D.C., where he...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Tue, May 7, 2013

It's been 38 years since two young Montgomery County sisters disappeared. On the morning of March 25, 1975, 12-year-old Sheila Lyon and 10-year-old Katherine Lyon walked from their Kensington home to the Wheaton Plaza shopping center in order to have lunch at the Orange Bowl restaurant....