Rachel Baye

Published: Sun, Apr 21, 2013

Montgomery County lawmakers say the county school system should spend more of its limited funds to close a troubling gap between white and Asian students and their black and Latino counterparts. Of MCPS' proposed $2.1 billion fiscal 2014 operating budget, only 0.1 percent is dedicated to...

Kate Jacobson

Published: Sun, Apr 21, 2013

The Montgomery County Council on Monday is set to debate for the first time a trio of polarizing contract agreements that would give thousands of union employees double-digit pay raises over two years. The three agreements would give raises to most unionized county workers, firefighters and...

Rachel Baye

Published: Sun, Apr 21, 2013

With two and a half weeks before opening night, the Fire Starters Opera Company was finishing costumes and sets, rehearsing arias and making sure mailers went out -- and that was just before recess. Mary Ruth McGinn's 19 third-grade students at Stedwick Elementary School in Montgomery Village...

Kate Jacobson

Published: Sat, Apr 20, 2013

Police in Montgomery County are investigating the death of a man after he was tasered by police officers. The 51-year-old man was unruly, so police first pepper sprayed and then tasered the man to subdue him. Once we was detained, he stopped breathing. It is unclear whether the taser played...

April Burbank

Published: Sat, Apr 20, 2013

Three Montgomery County employees who answer 911 calls and dispatch first responders were recognized this week for their work. The second full week of April each year is designated across the U.S. as National Public Safety Telecommunications Week to recognize the public safety communications...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Sat, Apr 20, 2013

A Fort Washington man has been found guilty of committing two Montgomery County home invasions in January 2012, prosecutors said. A jury last week convicted 34-year-old Kevin Darnell Ray of charges including burglary, sex offenses, assault and handgun offenses, according to the Montgomery...

Kate Jacobson

Updated: Thu, Apr 18, 2013

Montgomery County lawmakers said they won't give the public schools more resource police officers until school officials create a concrete plan on how they would be used. County Executive Ike Leggett has proposed adding six more school officers in his fiscal 2014 budget, which would double the...

Kate Jacobson

Updated: Thu, Apr 18, 2013

Montgomery County is paying more for firefighter injuries than it did last year, despite a drop in the number of claims. Fire officials told the County Council on Thursday that despite fewer workers getting hurt on the job, the higher cost of health care is slamming the department with higher...

Scott McCabe and Naomi Jagoda

Published: Thu, Apr 18, 2013

Silver Spring man sentenced for using drugs to lure minor into sex A 66-year-old Silver Spring businessman was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for using oxycodone and heroin to lure a 17 year-old girl who he videotaped having sex with him and other adults. Robert Chin, the head of...

Rachel Baye

Updated: Wed, Apr 17, 2013

The District's funding of schools based on the number of students they enroll is flawed, D.C. Council Education Committee Chairman David Catania said Wednesday. All of the city's public schools, both in DC Public Schools and the charter schools, receive money through a formula that is based on...