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The Gaithersburg teen charged with murder in the death of his 2-year-old son continues to be held without bond in the Montgomery County Detention Center.

“Obviously, you’re in a heap of trouble to say the least,” Montgomery County District Court Judge Barry A. Hamilton told the defendant, Darryl Eugene Powell, 17, during a bond hearing Monday.

Powell, of the 4700 block of Merust Lane, was arrested Friday after an autopsy determined that his son Zjaire Williams was a homicide victim who died Jan. 7 of “multiple injuries” revealed by bruises in his mouth and on his body, according to county police.

Actually, he lives in the 9400 block — there is no 4700 block of that street.

Advocates of more housing for low-income families in the county are encouraged by a federal program that looks to swap scores of “foreclosed” signs with “for rent” signs, mainly in Aspen Hill and Germantown. But some in those hard-hit communities are skeptical of a plan they say precludes homeownership and boxes out private investors.

Gaithersburg leaders agreed Monday to go forward with feasibility studies on sites for a new senior center.

Final approval will come in an official meeting, but Mayor Sidney A. Katz and his City Council said they plan to give the go-ahead.

A Gaithersburg teen who wanted to join the military pleaded guilty Friday to two felony explosives charges in a high-profile case that involved more than 50 pounds of chemicals, assault rifles, a school faculty list, and a map of Camp David marked with a presidential motorcade route found in a Bethesda man’s bedroom.

Patrick Serafin Yevsukov, 17, pleaded guilty to two felony charges of manufacture or possession of a destructive device with incendiary intent, misdemeanor theft for stealing police letterhead and unauthorized use of a computer during an internship with county police.

Montgomery County police are calling on the public for help in their investigation into a sexual assault in the East Village community of Montgomery Village.

A Montgomery County Circuit Court grand jury indicted a 16-year-old Clarksburg boy last week on 10 counts, accusing him of striking a police officer with his sport utility vehicle at a Gaithersburg church and fleeing the scene after the officer fired shots at his vehicle.

The charges against Joseph W. Nelson, 16, of the 23200 block of Rainbow Arch Drive, include first- and second-degree assault and several offenses related to failure to help the officer he struck, leaving an accident scene and fleeing from police.

Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett warned of hard times ahead but said the struggle will make the county stronger at the first of five budget forums scheduled around the county this month.

The school system’s plan to scale back the number of classroom fees is garnering mixed reviews from some parents and school leaders.

One hundred homeowners sought the help of housing counselors and lawyers at a foreclosure seminar hosted by U.S. Rep. Donna F. Edwards at Montgomery College-Germantown last week.

David Winters, a 19-year-old North Potomac man who continues to stand trial for first degree murder in Montgomery County Circuit Court, was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia the night he allegedly stabbed his father to death, according to the testimony of a forensic psychiatrist Tuesday.

A Montgomery County jury cleared a Gaithersburg man last week in the April shooting death and robbery of a woman outside her Grove Park apartment.

The defendant, Aaron Shepherd, 20, was found guilty Thursday of conspiracy to commit armed robbery. He will be sentenced in March.

He is the first of three suspects to be tried for the killing of Lindsay Marie Harvey, 25, of Gaithersburg.

Environmental restrictions and thick mud aside, the Fairland and Burtonsville stretch of the Intercounty Connector remains on schedule for 2011, an ICC engineer said.