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The teen who set off a chain reaction of gang-related violence in Gaithersburg when he stabbed a man to death at the Lakeforest Transit Center in November will serve 16 years in a mental hospital for his role in the attack.

Ronald Antoine, 16, of Gaithersburg pleaded guilty in April to second-degree murder in the death of Robert Troy Jackson Jr., 21, of Germantown. He was charged as an adult and on Friday was sentenced to serve 25 years with all but 16 suspended. He will serve his time at the Patuxent Institute, a state psychiatric facility.

A man who rammed into another vehicle, killing the driver, while fleeing from police near Lakeforest mall in February has pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter in connection with the death.

Police say Anthony James Kutten, 19, ran a red light at the intersection of Goshen Road and Odenhal Avenue in Gaithersburg just before midnight on Feb. 13 and struck the driver’s side of a car driven by Beatrice Omoro, 32, of Lost Knife Circle.

County police detectives are searching for a man who dragged a 29-year-old Gaithersburg woman into the woods near Washington Grove on Aug. 19 and raped her.

A cousin of Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown was shot to death in Montgomery Village Saturday night in a police standoff that turned fatal as her former boyfriend held her hostage in her garage.

During a recent school board meeting, parent Rosanne A. Hurwitz asked the school system to refund $8 in fees for towels charged to her son, who attends Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring.

“Failure to pay this fee results in a financial obligation and students who do not pay this fee cannot participate in certain school activities, including graduation,” Hurwitz told the board. “While the Attorney General suggests parents appeal to the board, it is unconscionable to expect the families of our county to go through this process to obtain what is clearly their right.”

Though students are not denied access to classes, the school board’s policy is still illegal, said parent Janis Sartucci, an outspoken critic of the school system’s curricular fees.

“Where’s the money go?” Sartucci asked. “If this money is required to run the school system, why don’t we see it? If we are a revenue source for the school system, we should be in the budget documents, but we’re not.”

Latino groups have resigned themselves that the Montgomery County Police Department will continue to enforce federal civil immigration warrants, despite the continued opposition within immigrant supporters.

Some streets in older neighborhoods in Gaithersburg could soon get a makeover with wider curbs and rain gardens as part of a “green street” pilot program aimed to create cleaner roads and healthier water.

• Watch your speed on West Riding roads
• The battle against domestic abuse
• Green-building ordinance
• CDBG Grants