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Moore endorses MoCo Council, General Assembly candidates

Moore endorses MoCo Council, General Assembly candidates

Plus: Realtors’ ‘super PAC’ puts money into independent expenditure effort for Friedson, council candidates May 11, 2026 11:46 a.m. 11:55 a.m. Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) on Thursday issued a wave of endorsements for federal, state and local...

Family of Silver Spring fire victim continues to honor her legacy

Family of Silver Spring fire victim continues to honor her legacy

Plus: Driver dies in I-270 crash; MCPS teacher of the year awarded May 11, 2026 6:00 a.m. 10:53 p.m. A donation from the family of 25-year-old Melanie Diaz, the victim of the 2023Arrive Silver Spring apartment complexfire, has helped the Montgomery...

Pedestrian dead after hit-and-run on Beltway in Chevy Chase

Pedestrian dead after hit-and-run on Beltway in Chevy Chase

Incident occurred Thursday night near Connecticut Avenue Maryland State Police are looking for the driver who was involved in a fatal pedestrian hit-and-run collision Thursday night on the outer loop of the Capital Beltway near Connecticut Avenue in...

Royal Farms to open Silver Spring store June 1

Royal Farms to open Silver Spring store June 1

Plus: Developers pitch 134-unit apartment near Chevy Chase Lake; Atlanta rapper T.I. to perform at The Fillmore in Silver Spring in July May 7, 2026 6:00 a.m. 9:40 a.m. Royal Farms, a Baltimore-based convenience store chain, will now open its new...

Legislative panel presses pause on Laurel Park purchase

Legislative panel presses pause on Laurel Park purchase

The grandstand at Laurel Park race track is rarely full. Current plans call for the track, which will host the Preakness Stakes this year, to be converted to a training facility, but state lawmakers want to examine the financials of that proposal....

Baltimore County landfill closure deal delayed at state board

Baltimore County landfill closure deal delayed at state board

Maryland Secretary of Natural Resources Josh Kurtz speaks at the release event for the 2025 Chesapeake Bay report card from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science on June 10, 2025. (File photo by Christine Condon/Maryland...