Update: LL Flooring signed a last minute agreement with F9 Investments for a going-concern sale of its business as part of its Chapter 11 process. The asset purchase agreement includes the acquisition of 219 stores, inventory, intellectual property, and other assets. The transaction is expected to close by the end of September, subject to Bankruptcy Court approval. The company will continue to operate normally, serving customers with a broad range of flooring products both online and in stores. LL Flooring is also proceeding with previously announced store closings at 211 locations. 

“Closing sales are continuing at 211 store locations, including the recently initiated 117 store closings and the 94 store closings already in process that had been previously announced on August 11, 2014. These locations will remain open and serving customers through the store closing process.”Additional information can be found at the LL Flooring Restructuring website.


Callen Baker, 21, of Jefferson, MD, was sentenced to 30 years in prison (out of a 400-year sentence) and five years of supervised probation for his role in a March 2023 gunfire incident in Rockville

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On Tuesday, Dennis Hinnant, 30, of Silver Spring, was sentenced to 40 years in prison for the second-degree murder of his wife, Taresha Pendarvis, after turning himself in to police and confessing to the crime in February 2023. (more…)


Montgomery County officials, including Executive Marc Elrich and Council President Andrew Friedson, will host an opening ceremony on Monday, September 9 at the Traville Gateway Transit Center in Rockville to celebrate the launch of the new Pink and Lime bus routes.

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Gambero Rosso, an Italian food and wine magazine that was founded in 1986, has been publishing its restaurant guide since 1990. The guide, Ristoranti d’Italia, describes the best Italian restaurants across the world. For each place it attributes a rating from 60 to 100 and, only for the best restaurants, a number of forchette (‘forks’) ranging from 1 to 3. Only one Italian restaurant from Maryland has ever earned a forchette (fork)— IL Pizzico in Rockville earned una forchetta/one fork (video of the experience available below).

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