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<p>Montgomery County prosecutors secured murder indictments today against six people who had been previously charged in connection with the slaying in January of a 15-year-old who was stabbed 72 times and dumped in a Gaithersburg creek.</p> <p>For the first time in Montgomery, a county grand jury also indicted the defendants under a 2007 law that allows judges to sentence gang members who commit violent crimes to an additional 20 years in prison.</p>

The increasingly famous Montgomery County cucumber has been sentenced to legal limbo with the ruling of a federal judge last week, which is too bad, considering the hype that has enveloped this normally modest side dish. The Montgomery County cucumber has been the subject of countless news stories and commentaries this spring, as America undergoes the uncomfortable process of learning everything it ever wanted to know about the cucumber but was afraid to ask. The Montgomery County cucumber is the co-star of a low-budget flick, "Protect Yourself," along with an actress who has all the lines. Of course, the latter...

Montgomery County public schools today likely will agree to extend until December a temporary restraining order on teaching a new sex-education curriculum, an attorney for a group suing the school system said yesterday. Erik Stanley, an attorney for Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum (CRC), predicted the school system would agree to extend the 10-day restraining order imposed last week in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt. The extension would allow school officials and CRC activists to address and reconcile differences over the new course. Mr. Stanley said if CRC cannot reach an agreement with school officials, it will press its lawsuit...

A Montgomery County Public Schools spokesman said yesterday that the district will not bar parents from sitting in on a sex-ed course that begins this week, and that they never intended to. "Parents of kids in those classes will be allowed [in]," said spokesman Brian Edwards, contradicting statements he made days before to The Washington Times. In a phone interview Friday, Mr. Edwards, who has been with the school district since November, said "no" when asked whether parents would be allowed to audit the sex-ed classes.