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Gary James Smith, 25, was sentenced in Montgomery County Circuit Court today to serve 35 years in prison for the 2006 murder of his roommate and fellow Army Ranger.

Smith was convicted in April of second-degree murder and use of a handgun in the commission of a crime of violence in the shooting death of Michael McQueen Jr., 22, his roommate of three weeks. Both men were U.S. Army Rangers who served in Afghanistan.

A Rockville man who nearly stabbed a man to death Nov.6 in retaliation for the stabbing death of his fiancée’s relative was sentenced to serve 15 years in prison.

Yadale Angel Martinez, 22, pleaded guilty July 7 to attempted second-degree murder for a Nov. 6 attack and to armed robbery for an unrelated crime. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison with all but 15 suspended.

The Nov. 6 attack came one day after Robert Troy Jackson, 21, of Germantown was fatally stabbed at the Lakeforest Transit Center in Gaithersburg.

Another steamy summer day, another lunchtime rush in front of the Motor Vehicle Administration in Gaithersburg as scores of hungry customers descend on the trucks selling Latino food that line Metropolitan Court.

Police investigating a shootout in a Gaithersburg community last week are being stymied by a lack of cooperation.

A Gaithersburg college student who set his parent’s minivan on fire last year because he believed that God told him to has been found guilty but not criminally responsible for his actions.

The botanist who last week identified a plant near a Gaithersburg family’s garden as a toxic weed, said the six people admitted to the hospital after unknowingly eating it are ‘‘lucky” to be alive.

The Gaithersburg Police Department reports a boost to recruiting as officers see a second pay raise in six months.

Gaithersburg city leaders are considering a zoning amendment designed to address ‘‘mansionization” by limiting large additions and replacement homes that could be incompatible with a neighborhood.

Returning after two years off the list, Gaithersburg has been named one of the top 100 ‘‘Best Places to Live,” according to annual survey by CNN⁄Money.com.

Gaithersburg took 29th place, based on dozens of factors, such as family income, job growth and air quality.

Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission officials still don’t know what caused a 48-inch water main to break June 15, leading to a three-day boil-water advisory for a large area of the county.

Members of a County Council subcommittee remained wary last week about a proposal to build an arena during a time of budget cuts and fiscal uncertainties, but economic development representatives said they plan to continue studying the project’s potential.

The County Council has unanimously approved a bill intended to protect domestic workers from being exploited by employers.