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3 days ago | 
bethesdamagazine.com | Julie Rasicot
Maryland Sen. Angela Alsobrooks joined hundreds of protesters as they rallied Saturday outside of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda to protest cuts to healthcare and medical research.
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6 days ago | 
bethesdamagazine.com | Julie Rasicot
Gov. Wes Moore (D) has signed into law a bipartisan reform of Maryland’s ethics law that was authored by Montgomery County Del. Marc Korman (D). The new law requires “future governors to put their financial holdings in a blind trust or disinvest from them entirely,” according to TIME magazine. [TIME]115 students graduate from county truancy programA ceremony in Rockville honors 115 graduates of a program created by the Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy to combat truancy.
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2 weeks ago | 
states.aarp.org | Julie Rasicot
The Altadena Senior Center burns on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, in the wind-driven Eaton fire. Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News/Getty Images More than six weeks after the Eaton wildfire ravaged her Los Angeles community, Altadena resident Diana Lee was still cleaning up ashes that had blown into her house, grateful she’d resisted an urge to cancel her home insurance for the year.
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2 weeks ago | 
bethesdamagazine.com | Julie Rasicot
A Bethesda real estate development and investment firm has paid $47 million for a group of office buildings on 25 acres on Corporate and Research boulevards in Rockville. [Washington Business Journal]Man dies after pedestrian collision in Aspen HillA man has died night of injuries suffered when he was struck Saturday night by a car on Georgia Avenue at Aspen Hill Road in Aspen Hill, according to Montgomery County police.
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3 weeks ago | 
bethesdamagazine.com | Julie Rasicot
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Tuesday in a case pitting a group of parents against Montgomery County Public Schools over the district’s policy of not allowing families to opt out of elementary school lessons involving books with LGBTQ+ characters. [WUSA9]A fire in a Poolesville townhouse on Friday left a family displaced and killed a cat, according to Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service officials.
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3 weeks ago | 
bethesdamagazine.com | Julie Rasicot |Elia Griffin
Montgomery County police have charged Robert Deeter, 31, of Bethesda with kidnapping and other charges in connection with an alleged abduction that occurred Friday afternoon in the 10300 block of Old Georgetown Road in Bethesda, police said Saturday night in a statement. In addition to kidnapping, Deeter faces charges of first-degree assault, stalking, harassment and multiple handgun charges, according to the statement.
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1 month ago | 
states.aarp.org | Julie Rasicot
Homes destroyed by the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles, as seen on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. Roger Kisby/Bloomberg via Getty Images Three months after wildfires devastated several Los Angeles County communities, organizations providing disaster relief and aid are shifting from offering emergency assistance to focusing on the long-term needs of thousands of displaced residents.
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2 months ago | 
bethesdamagazine.com | Julie Rasicot
Potomac resident and sportswriter John Feinstein–whose prolific career included more than 40 published books, reporting for The Washington Post and serving as a sports commentator—died Thursday at age 69, according to published reports. Feinstein, a father of three died of natural causes at the home of his brother, Robert, in McLean, Virginia, according to NPR.
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2 months ago | 
bethesdamagazine.com | Julie Rasicot
Veterinarian Lee Morgan knew he’d have to deliver the bad news. He’d have to tell veteran musher Richie Diehl that some of his sled dogs could not continue to run in the 2020 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race across the Alaskan wilderness. Morgan and other volunteer veterinarians at a checkpoint about 260 miles from the finish line of the nearly 1,000-mile race had noticed that some of Diehl’s dogs had started coughing.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
bethesdamagazine.com | Julie Rasicot
Montgomery County detectives have charged a man with first-degree murder in connection with the Friday morning deaths of a woman and a man in Rockville, according to police and court records. Kaloyan Dimov Stoev, 25, was taken into custody at noon Friday after police located him in Rockville, police said Friday night in a statement. According to Montgomery County District Court records, Stoev faces two charges of first-degree murder and two charges of use of a firearm during a violent crime.
