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3 days 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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4 days 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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2 weeks 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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1 month 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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1 month 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.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
states.aarp.org | Julie Rasicot
Oregon has been striving to make its roadways safer through better street engineering, stronger enforcement of traffic laws and enhanced driver education. But those measures and advances in auto technology haven’t stopped traffic deaths from increasing. In 2022, fatalities hit 603 — a 33-year-high, according to data from the Oregon Department of Transportation.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
moco360.media | Julie Rasicot
A person was fatally struck Sunday night by a train on the CSX railroad tracks in the area of Game Preserve Road between Gaithersburg and Germantown, according to the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service (MCFRS). As of 7 p.m., train traffic was halted between Gaithersburg and Germantown, MCFRS spokesperson Pete Piringer wrote on social media. Game Preserve Road was closed between Route 355 and Clopper Road, county police wrote on social media at about 7 p.m. “This will be an extended closure.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
states.aarp.org | Julie Rasicot
Asked why she supports strengthening Oregon’s workplace age discrimination law, state Sen. Janeen Sollman points to an older constituent who told her of his struggles to get a new job in the tech industry. Indeed, the job hunt was going nowhere and some people started indicating that his “maturity” was a concern for them, recalls Sollman (D-Hillsboro). His reaction? “He went and colored his hair and then started doing interviews and he got a job,” she says.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
moco360.media | Julie Rasicot
Montgomery County police arrested three Silver Spring teens and another from Prince George’s County in connection with an Oct. 19 armed carjacking in downtown Bethesda, police said Wednesday in a news release. Police were dispatched around 9:30 p.m. to the county parking garage at the 4800 block of Bethesda Avenue for the report of an armed carjacking, according to radio transmissions. The block is home to Ourisman Honda and Bethesda Row, a collection of dining and retail businesses.
