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DERWOOD - Candlewood elementary school will be closed and torn down when the school year ends. Brennan Karem takes you on a visit to the school with former principals as parents and students celebrate the community.
BETHESDA- one person is dead and another is seriously injured after a 40-foot, 55,000 pound (27.5 ton) piece of concrete collapsed at Westfield Montgomery Mall Thursday afternoon.
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Detectives from the Montgomery County Police Major Crimes Division – Robbery Section are investigating a bank robbery that occurredon Friday, May 17, at the M&T Bank in Damascus.
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ROCKVILLE-On May 10, 2013 millions of people will pack movie theatres around the country to watch Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire recreate the extravagance of the 1920s, in the latest...
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Freshman Congressman John Delaney on Wednesday plans to roll out his signature legislative initiative for his first term — a plan for a national infrastructure bank that requires no federal...
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GAITHERSBURG – The Black Knights are back on top. Avalon won its fourth Maryland Private School Class B state championship over Old Line Baseball Conference rival St. Maria Goretti 1-0.
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Silver Spring Stage could never have planned something like this. When they scheduled the play “The Little Dog Laughed” in this time spot, they could not have known that just a few weeks earlier, NBA basketball player Jason Collins would...
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As my mother use to say – if you find yourself in a hole, first thing to do is to stop digging. Good advice for more than one politician in the news right now, but that rule also applies to the...
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To finish their current season, Constellation Theater down at the Source Theater in DC is telling an old story. A very old story – in fact with “Gilgamesh,” the company is telling the oldest known recorded story in human history.
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So, unless you’re living under a rock, buried under a pile of garbage underneath the foundation of a sewage plant in the base of a huge mountain, then chances are you’ve heard of the three scandals currently facing our President. Read more
I live in a county that wants to raise my property taxes, has already taxed the roads with spee…
The president’s new choices for Commerce secretary and FCC chair underscore how far down the ra…
Progressives often wonder why so many Republican lawmakers stick to their avowed prin…
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ROCKVILLE - A once-prominent swimming coach who trained thousands of children was sentenced to ... Read more
MONTGOMERY VILLAGE (www.montgomeryvillage.com) – Fresh quality produce will be available again …
GAITHERSBURG- Montgomery County police are investigating a shooting that occurred late afternoo…
The Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival is coming back to Sandy Point State Park this weekend – Satur…
Standup comedy has probably been around since man learned to grunt; and while earlier efforts in this art form have never been fully chronicled, at least we have John DeBellis’s brilliant work on which we can rely.
“Standup Guys,” a memoir by John DeBellis takes us to the heart of a comedian’s tortured soul and at the same time is such an entertaining read you actually taste the stale beer and feel the sticky bar counters from the 70s when Debellis began his life as a comedian.
On May 31, 2013, asteroid 1998 QE2, which is believed to be about 1.7 miles (2.7 kilometers) or nine Queen Elizabeth 2 ship-lengths in size, will sail serenely past Earth, getting no closer than about 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers), or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon. And while QE2 is not of much interest to those astronomers and scientists on the lookout for hazardous asteroids, it is of interest to those who dabble in radar astronomy and have a 230-foot (70-meter) -- or larger -- radar telescope at their disposal.
David Bowie made his mark with the song "Space Oddity", but Chris Hadfield, a real astronaut for NASA and pretty fair guitar player and singer upped the ante this week with his revised version of the Rock n' Roll classic.
He recorded it on his last day aboard the International Space Station and it's now available on YouTube:
GERMANTOWN-Logan McLean likes to describe himself as a normal teenager. At 18, he is preparing for graduation, prom, college, his career, and he’s preparing for his driver’s test later in the year. Logan likes the taste of coffee and loudly declares that he wants to get a job and move out of his parent’s home as soon as possible like any other teenager the only difference is Logan had a 10-inch tumor, deemed inoperable by numerous doctors, removed from his spine.
RUBY TAG # Missing ID # A320629 Domestic SH cat, spayed female, 5 yrs, brown tabby I’m your all-around sweet young adult cat! I’ll love and play with everyone in your family, from adults...
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May 20, 1944 Agitation over the lack of ambulance service in the Bethesda area reached a fever pitch at a crowded meeting of the fire board. Citizens complained that in a...
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