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State’s Attorney John J. McCarthy called Henderson “a danger to the community” and said that Henderson had selected Harvey in a similar manner and method he had selected victims of armed robberies he previously committed. McCarthy cited evidence that included an article of Henderson’s clothing with Harvey’s blood on the right arm.

After less than a week in jail and six weeks in a work-release program, the Columbia man who killed 17-year-old Esai Lopez of Gaithersburg in a hit-and-run collision last year has been transferred to home confinement to serve the rest of his one-year sentence.

News last week of gunfire in a county high school and a foiled shooting plot at another last May are evidence that a violent school tragedy could be closer to a reality than many would like to think.

Prosecutors determined earlier this month that there was insufficient evidence to continue the case against Tiffany Palmer, 16, of Red Buckeye Court in Germantown, who was indicted for attempted first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit attempted first degree murder, according to Seth Zucker, a spokesman for the county State’s Attorney’s Office. There was probable cause for arrest but not enough to prosecute, he said.

Palmer was charged in connection with one of four gang-related attacks near the Lakeforest Transit Center in Gaithersburg and the Shady Grove Metro station in Rockville between Nov. 5 and Nov. 12 that left one man dead, one man with serious stab wounds, a third with minor stab wounds and two with gunshot wounds.

Palmer’s cousin, 21-year-old Robert Troy Jackson Jr. of Germantown, was stabbed multiple times at the transit center Nov. 5 during the afternoon rush hour and died the next day, police have said. That afternoon, a then-26-year-old Gaithersburg man was stabbed on Odenhal Avenue, allegedly in retaliation for Jackson’s death.

City and county police started an aggressive traffic enforcement campaign along Route 355 in Gaithersburg on Monday, with a goal to remind teen drivers that getting behind the wheel isn’t without risk.

Crime has recently reached new heights in Gaithersburg with two recent rooftop burglaries of businesses.

After months of searching for a home for a $35,000 mural planned for Olde Towne Gaithersburg, a committee is suggesting that the public art complement a museum makeover.

The Gaithersburg Community Museum, located at 9 S. Summit Ave., in the restored 1884 B&O Railroad Station complex, is undergoing an $866,000 transformation that will quadruple its museum space and expand its surrounding plaza, said Denise Kayser, a city parks department employee who works with the city’s Art in Public Places Committee.

A plan to have government agencies make affordably priced housing available to more middle-class and lower income residents might face competition — from the economy.

On Thursday, 11 groups from Maryland, Virginia and Washington will hold a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington to announce the formation of the Capital Area Alliance Against Illegal Immigration. The alliance will include organizations such as Help Save Maryland and Save the Old Dominion that have pushed for legislation and advocacy against illegal immigration around the region.

The County Council on Tuesday gave approval to a county reorganization plan proposed by County Executive Isiah Leggett that would split one of the county’s largest departments, eliminate the Department of Homeland Security and put other departments under the executive’s jurisdiction.

More than 550 artifacts ranging from pieces of broken farming equipment to old coins have been discovered at the North Bethesda home known to many as Uncle Tom’s Cabin, bringing the historic site one step closer to opening to the public.

Would-be homeowners convened in Gaithersburg and Montgomery Village on Saturday to turn mortgage-crisis lemons into lemonade as part of the county’s first foreclosure bus tour, a new trend rolling out around the country.

For more than 40 years, the clack-and-clatter of falling pins at the Shady Grove Bowling Center in Gaithersburg has warmed locals’ hearts, but a scheduled $3.5 million facelift for the alley has enthusiasts on edge.

The former Broadstone apartment complex near Olde Towne Gaithersburg is now the site of the city’s largest construction waste recycling project ever. Nearly two-thirds of the recently demolished buildings will be reused and recycled by a Clarksburg company.