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Live Music Returns to Quarry House Beginning This Month
The Quarry House Tavern is bringing back live music with the first show scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 19.
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Suspect Arrested and Charged with Sex Trafficking; Possibility of Additional Victims a Concern
Detectives from the county’s Vice & Intelligence Unit have arrested and charged 32-year-old Ernest Wilkerson of Rockville with sex trafficking and prostitution-related charges. Detectives have released a photo of Wilkerson and his vehicle and encourage anyone who may be a victim of sex trafficking by Wilkerson to come forward.
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Woman-Owned Businesses Collecting Items to Help Homeless, Poverty-Stricken Women
Four area woman-owned businesses have teamed up to collect essential items for women experiencing homelessness, poverty or other distress.
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Police Investigating Armed Robbery of Silver Spring 7-Eleven
Detectives from the county’s Major Crimes Division are asking the public for help in identifying a suspect caught on surveillance video during a January 13 armed robbery of a 7-Eleven in the 7900 block of Georgia Ave. in Silver Spring.
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Libraries Join State Project to Record, Archive Pandemic Stories
The county’s library system is joining a state effort to record and archive residents’ stories about their lives and how they have been affected by the pandemic.
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Suspects Arrested in Carjacking at Summit Hills Apartments
Montgomery County Police say that an 18-year-old male is in custody following a January 19 armed carjacking at the Summit Hills Apartments in Silver Spring, and another suspect is in custody in Prince George’s County on additional charges.
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County Inmate Charged With Assault, Attempted Escape
A 31-year-old Germantown man, already in custody for a string of bank robberies in Montgomery County, now has additional charges after fighting with county officers in a bathroom Tuesday evening at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring.
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BPW Approves Modified Purple Line Agreement to Permit Full Construction
The state’s Board of Public Works unanimously approved a modified Purple Line Public-Private Partnership Agreement yesterday that will allow the project’s new design-build team to complete the line.
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County Police, Joint Agencies Arrest Six Men for Drug Trafficking Conspiracy
The U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Erek L. Barron last week announced the unsealing of a federal complaint charging six men, including two from Silver Spring, for a drug trafficking conspiracy that allegedly distributed cocaine and other drugs in Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties, as well as the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.