A Montgomery County educator with roots stretching from Montgomery Village to Damascus has built one of the region’s most-followed platforms focused on UFOs and unidentified aerial phenomena, turning a long-standing personal curiosity into a rapidly growing digital project with a national audience.
A multi-vehicle crash involving six vehicles was reported Saturday morning on Sweepstakes Road in Damascus, prompting a temporary road closure and traffic advisory. (more…)
The Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) has released additional information regarding a a fatal single-vehicle collision that occurred on Wednesday, January 14, 2026, in Germantown (near Damascus), which resulted in the death of 28-year-old Michael Patrick Fitzgerald Jr. of Germantown. (more…)
The Montgomery County community is rallying to support the family of Taeyon Malachi Prather, an 18-year-old Gaithersburg resident whose death is being investigated as a homicide. According to the Montgomery County Police Department, officers were called around 7:21 p.m. on Friday, January 2, to the 23600 block of Rolling Fork Way near Damascus after Fire and Rescue responded to a report of a person down and found Prather suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. (more…)
Montgomery County police continue to investigate the homicide of an 18-year-old Gaithersburg man, Taeyon Malachi Prather, whose body was found Friday evening in a parking lot near Damascus.
Montgomery County police have released an update in the homicide investigation on Rolling Fork Way, off of Woodfield Rd. in Gaithersburg (near Damascus).
A Damascus man is in custody following a lengthy standoff that stretched into the early morning hours Tuesday.
Montgomery County Police have provided an update on the ongoing Emergency Response Team (ERT) incident in the 26000 block of Mullinix Mill Road in the Damascus area.
Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) 5th District officers were dispatched at 8:01 a.m. on Thursday to the 25900 block of Ridge Road in Damascus following a report of a pedestrian being struck by a vehicle. (more…)
Three Montgomery County Public Schools in upper Montgomery County remained closed Monday, Dec. 15, even as the school system as a whole operated on a Code Yellow two hour delayed opening.