Montgomery County

Friends and family of Aiden Vining got a chance to speak for him, and about him, at Monday’s sentencing for Cesar Alexander Lopez, 26, of Hyattsville, Maryland. Last November, Lopez pleaded guilty to Involuntary Manslaughter for selling counterfeit Percocet found to be laced with deadly amounts of fentanyl. Aiden Vining, who was 17, was found unresponsive in his family’s Chevy…

A mother is speaking out after the sentencing of the drug dealer who sold her son fentanyl-laced pills. She says she feels the sentence does not fully reflect that the crime took a life. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.

RespectFest in Montgomery County brings awareness to safety in teen relationships. News4’s Molette Green and Melissa Mollet talks to Ava’Marie Arnold, a student finalist in the video contest, the county’s state’s attorney and the county’s sheriff about the event. 

While Jonathan Roth’s first passion is art, he incorporates another passion into his children’s books: space. The Montgomery County art teacher explains how some of his children’s books came to be. 

Baseball is already seeing a new phenomenon this year — torpedo bats. The tapered bats that focus weight to the sweet spot, potentially enabling bigger hits are made by King of Prussia-based Victus Sports .

Cullen Jones, a four-time Olympian medalist, travels around the country to talk about the importance of water safety. Goldfish Swim School hosted a meet-and-greet in Silver Spring, Maryland where local families could meet the Olympian and learn how to swim. News4’s Jessica Albert reports. 

A 6-year-old Maryland boy is being hailed as a hero for saving his mother’s life last month. Zahra Naqvi had just finished running errands on a Saturday when she got sick. “As I was driving home, I started getting lightheaded and I felt really sick,” Naqvi said. “As I got into the house, I could feel my legs giving...

A 6-year-old boy from Montgomery County is hailed as a hero for quick thinking that saved his mother’s life. News 4’s Jessica Albert reports the family wants to make sure others are prepared in case they end up in a similar situation.

Wheaton High School’s Society of Women Engineers took home a bronze medal at the 2025 UAE Electric Vehicle Grand Prix in Dubai. Some students explain their role in building electric cars from scratch. News4’s Molette Green reports. 

The Montgomery County fire department debuted new fire prevention technology that could change how fast they put out fires in high-rise buildings. News4’s Joseph Olmo reports. 

Nicholas Sefick, a third grade teacher in Montgomery County, heard a conversation about winning and losing between students and was inspired to write his debut children’s book “For the Win!: It’s spOiler Time.” He talks about its lessons of positivity and teamwork with News4’s Jummy Olabanji as part of her 4 Your Reading series. 

Whether stopping in for a cup of coffee at Soul Full café, joining inclusive neighborhood programming or moving in to call Main Street home, it’s a unique place that celebrates everyone’s differences and varying abilities daily. News4’s Tommy McFly reports on the Montgomery County treasure.

Seven families were forced out into frigid temperatures when a building in Montgomery County caught fire overnight Friday. Nine people were displaced. News4’s Megan McGrath reports.

Leaders have questions about Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School after it went into lockdown two times in less than two weeks. News4’s Walter Morris reports.

News4’s Jummy Olabanji spoke to Montgomery County Fire Chief Corey Smedley about a string of fatal fires in the county and why installing and checking smoke alarms is important in fire prevention. 

“It was the hardest thing of my life.” Sheila Caldwell spoke about days spent sitting through the trial of Markus Dowdy, 34, of Silver Spring, listening as prosecutors described a previous dispute between Dowdy and her late son Marvin Jefferson, also 34. They got into a fistfight where Jefferson allegedly got the better of Dowdy, and video of the fight…

News4’s Jackie Bensen spoke with the mother of 34-year-old Marvin Jefferson. She watched as a Montgomery County jury convicted a man of killing her son at a carryout in the White Oak area of Silver Spring in November 2023.

At a rally in Rockville Thursday night, public school teachers, administrators and the head of the Montgomery County School Board advocated for full funding of next year’s school budget after the governor called for a slowdown of spending for Fiscal Year 2026.

A Rockville man was arrested on charges that accuse him of raping a 9-year-old girl after she took trash to a bin outside her home. Charging documents in the arrest of 37-year-old Wilmer Alvarado Gomez accuse him of approaching the girl at about 7 p.m. last Thursday. She was playing outside a home on Parkland Drive in Rockville’s Wheaton...

A Rockville man is in jail and charged with raping a 9-year-old girl. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.