Montgomery County native Sam Anas has etched his name into international hockey history, tying the Kontinental Hockey League’s all-time single-season points record with a remarkable 89 points in 67 games.
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Maryland athletes are preparing to take the world stage as the 2026 Winter Olympics and Paralympics get underway in Milano-Cortina, Italy. With competitions spanning Feb 6-22 for the Olympics and March 6-15 for the Paralympics, several Team USA competitors with deep Maryland roots will be chasing medals while carrying hometown pride with them overseas, as shared by the Maryland Department of Energy Management.
The Justice Department unsealed criminal charges against Evgenii Ptitsyn, 42, a Russian national, for allegedly administering the sale, distribution, and operation of Phobos ransomware. Ptitsyn made his initial appearance in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland on November 4 after being extradited from South Korea.
2024 is not only an Olympic year, but also a World Championship year for the sport of Acrobatic Gymnastics. This summer at the 2024 USA Acrobatic Gymnastics National Championships and World Team Trials in Minneapolis (the same week and location of the Artistic Gymnastics Olympic Trials), USA Gymnastics selected two groups from Rockville’s Xtreme Acro to represent Team USA.
Potomac native and Bullis alumna Masai Russell set an Olympic trials record and qualified for the Paris Olympics with a 12.25 in the 100m hurdles. On Saturday, she won 100m hurdles gold by .01 seconds with a 12.33.
Quincy Wilson, a rising junior at the Bullis School in Potomac, became the youngest male U.S. track Olympian when he ran the opening leg of Round 1 of the U.S. 4×400-meter relay Friday. Now, he’s the youngest male Olympic track and field gold medalist ever…and school starts in two and a half weeks.
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While we usually offer you glances at dishes from across Montgomery County through Taste MoCo, our staff will occasionally travel across the country as you may have seen in our “Top Five Cheesesteaks in Philadelphia” list, and even north of the border to Toronto, Canada to experience a few of the restaurants in the area. In this case, one of our staff members visited Sotto Sotto, Drake’s favorite restaurant in his hometown of Toronto (located at 120 Avenue Rd. Toronto, Canada).
Last weekend, Montgomery County resident Ellen Gira was the winner of a Canadian Folk Music Award for “Traditional Album of the Year” along with her duo partner, fiddler, and step dancer Jocelyn Pettit.
According to the Royal Bahamas Police, a 10-year-old boy from Maryland, U.S.A was reportedly bitten by a shark shortly before 4:00 p.m. on Monday, January 15, 2024.
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In 2011, 35-year-old Robyn Gardner of Frederick, MD traveled to Aruba with 50-year-old Gary Giordano of Gaithersburg, MD. Two days into their stay, Giordano claims that Gardner vanished while the two were snorkeling- she hasn’t been seen since and is presumed dead by Aruban police.