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As Johns Hopkins University’s vision for keeping Montgomery County at the forefront of biotech and applied research begins to take shape, Gaithersburg officials are looking to annex an 108-acre property hailed as the centerpiece.

In Gaithersburg, two builders have pulled out of a residential project on the Casey West property near the planned Watkins Mill interchange with Interstate 270, losing a $10 million deposit, said Assistant City Manager Fred Felton.

And at Crown Farm’s Aventiene community near the Washingtonian Center, two builders want to forgo their planned spring start with upscale single-family homes.

A North Potomac teen accused of stabbing his father to death on Christmas Day has been indicted on charges of first-degree murder by a Montgomery County grand jury.

For about seven hours Saturday, the busy din filling the cafeteria at Gaithersburg Elementary School was the sound of ground zero in a national campaign to get eligible immigrants to apply for U.S. citizenship.

Ezekiel Wololo, who works at Lowe’s in Kentlands, is worried about his job because people are not spending money on home improvements the way they were last year.

A Gaithersburg property owner has filed a $1.5 million lawsuit against the city claiming that stormwater runoff from improvements made to a city-owned parking lot in Olde Towne has caused substantial harm to her neighboring commercial parking lot, retaining wall and stormwater system.

“I held the door open for a long time on this,” said Tova Fliegel, owner of the Fliegel Building on East Diamond Avenue. “Litigation was really a last resort for me.”

Gaithersburg Elementary School Principal Sharon J. Jones died Monday morning in her Germantown home after a battle with cancer.

On a judge’s recommendation, the driver who killed Esai Lopez, 17, of Gaithersburg and fled the scene of the crash last year has been accepted into a pre-release work program that enables him to earn a salary and cuts more than two months off of his sentence.

On Jan. 7, Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge DeLawrence Beard sentenced Brian L. Schwartz, 43, of Columbia to two years, with one year suspended.

The county police department will launch an interactive program this week that will allow county residents to track crime in their neighborhoods through the Internet.

Gaithersburg police and animal control officers are investigating a suspected dog poisoning in the Kentlands after a 3-year-old pug named Molly twice ingested two different types of rat poison found in her owner’s yard.

Lakelands Middle School parents are calling on city and county officials to add safety improvements at two intersections near the Gaithersburg school.