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Police have made an arrest in the Newport Estates shooting earlier this month that left more than 20 bullet holes in two townhouses and a parked car.

Brandon Jamal Freeman, 19, of the 7900 block of Coriander Drive in Gaithersburg’s Emory Grove neighborhood was charged with multiple weapons offenses in connection with the July 8 incident […]

The death of a 3-year-old girl on River Road in Potomac late last month has been ruled accidental, according to county police. Autopsy results from the state medical examiner show the girl died from a head injury, according to Steve Pascali, a spokesman for Montgomery County Police.

Two families torn apart by the 2006 murder of an Army Ranger appeared last week in Montgomery County Circuit Court for the judge’s final say.

County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) has signed a new law aimed at protecting domestic workers. It goes into effect in January.

House Majority Leader Kumar P. Barve pleaded guilty Thursday to driving under the influence as part of a plea agreement that dropped three lesser charges.

• Bio fund buys failed Gaithersburg office condo for $8.8M
  

  The Greater Washington Life Sciences Fund reported closing on its first acquisition, a failed 53,000-square-foot office condominium project in Gaithersburg, which it bought from the developer’s lender for $8.8 million.

• Ex-cop gets 4 years for bribery, pornography
• Physician gets 37 months for false medical billing
• People on the move

Why the second and third items are relegated to the “business notes” is beyond me.

As immigration arrests are occurring in the county at a record pace, county police are getting their first look at a new directive on when and why they can ask someone’s immigration status or participate in immigration arrests.

Montgomery County is asking a Circuit Court judge to throw out a police union claim that a plan to install cameras in police cruisers violates Maryland’s wiretap law.

The union representing Montgomery County’s police officers has a case of chronic heartburn with some aspects of plans to install video cameras in cruisers — and that discontent is delaying deployment of a valuable public-safety tool.

The [Planning Board], responsible for determining how projects are developed in the county, rejected Leggett’s changes and will recommend that the County Council not approve them. The council, which oversees the Planning Board, has the final say.

The grass-roots Longdraft Road Coalition scored an unusual triumph Thursday when it convinced the Montgomery County Planning Board not to widen Longdraft Road. It presented a modified county plan for intersection improvements — and planning commissioners accepted the plan with a few caveats.

With planning delays across the board, it will now be next year before a master plan update for the county-governed area west of Interstate 270 between Shady Grove and Quince Orchard roads is adopted.

• Annexation agreement makes way for hotel:
  

  Monday’s decision came on the heels of what the city views as a troubling change in policy-making. Since 2005, the Watkins Mill Interchange has been a ‘‘top three” priority for the Montgomery County Council. But last week County Council staff recommended breaking the $140 million project into two parts – and building the highway ramps and connecting bridge separately, with priority placed on the bridge.

• No new city manager yet
• Housing amendment
• Name change
• Rabies clinic
• Communication awards