Crime

A former Montgomery County Public Schools teacher accused of assaulting two administrators while trespassing at the Silver Spring elementary school where she previously worked has been found not competent to stand trial, according to Bethesda Today. (more…)


Announcement

HouseMouse Books is excited to announce the debut of Escape the Bookshop IV, our brand new limited-run escape room experience.

Escape the Bookshop games are always based on a real crime with connections to the DC region. They are designed and built by HouseMouse Books to be played in our atmospheric bookshop. This latest game was inspired by a true local museum theft and the goal is simple – to find the stolen object before the suspect flees the country!


Community

Written by Ben Sumner of Ki Whang Kim Traditional Martial Arts Association

Grandmaster Albert R. Cheeks, the founder and president of the Ki Whang Kim Traditional Martial Arts Association, a ninth-degree black belt, and one of the top U.S. taekwondo fighters of the 1970s, passed away on August 11, 2026. He was 74.


Beyond MoCo

A Montgomery Village man has been sentenced to 21 years in prison for the fatal shooting of a 43-year-old man inside a Northwest D.C. bar in April 2024, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.

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