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Gaithersburg officials warn that the souring economy will have a stifling effect on future capital projects and long-term city plans.

For the first time in years, the pay-as-you-go city will dip into its reserves, using more than $3 million in savings to complete projects, said Assistant City Manager Tony Tomasello.

It has been more than a year since Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett unveiled his plan to relocate and upgrade a dozen county operations and clear the way for a pair of multi-decade, multi-billion dollar redevelopment projects in Shady Grove.

After meeting with advocates from both sides of the immigration debate, Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett will decide in the next 10 days whether to allow county officers to ask federal immigration agents to determine if suspects arrested for violent crimes and weapons violations are in the country illegally.

The body found Monday in Gaithersburg has been identified as a Langley Park teenager, according to police.

Dennis Alfredo Guzman-Saenz, 15, of the 8100 block of 14th Avenue, was found with multiple stab wounds at the edge of a stream in Malcolm King Park on School Drive, according to Montgomery County Police. He was a student at High Point High School in Beltsville, said Officer Melanie Brenner, a police spokeswoman.

Three men abducted a 21-year-old Laurel woman early Sunday near Olde Towne Gaithersburg, drove her to a nearby field and raped her, police said Monday.

North Potomac resident and former U.S. Marine David Winters, 19, was found guilty on Thursday of first-degree murder and criminally responsible for killing his father Andrew Winters on Dec. 25, 2007.

State lawmakers who contributed to a union leader’s bid for a National Education Association board seat must seek a full refund, after the Maryland Attorney General’s Office last week deemed it improper for elected officials to transfer money from their campaign accounts to individuals running for union office.

Gaithersburg City Councilman Jud Ashman has proposed an annual book festival in the city designed to be the region’s largest.

Of the 26,536 low-income students eligible for free breakfast or lunch in the county, 11,166 availed themselves, according to the School Breakfast Scorecard released Jan. 14 by the Food Research and Action Center in Washington, D.C.

Despite freezing temperatures on Thursday, a half-dozen moms waiting in a school carpool line in Kensington left their warm vehicles to get an early start on their evening routines. Dinner was being delivered.