Rockville Rewind: July 11-15

Crime and courts and business news figured prominently in Rockville this week as a high-profile trial was delayed, a resident pleaded guilty to bank robbery, a hotel company made their move to Town Center official and an NBA star appeared not on a Rockville court but on a Rockville court docket.

On Monday, Patch reported that the trial of the driver in a fatal crash that killed a Col. Zadok Magruder High School student and two graduates has been . Kevin Coffay of Rockville is charged with multiple counts, including failure to remain at the scene of an accident involving death and attempting to elude uniformed police by fleeing on foot.

A major natural gas leak in Clarksburg on Monday during the evening rush hour.

The discussed divesting city retirement funds from companies doing business in Sudan, looked at the proposals of three nonprofits for converting the King Farm Farmstead into a nonprofit campus or a center for sustainable agriculture, heard a report from the city’s White-Tailed Deer Task Force and approved the first steps of a search for a new city manager.

As severe thunderstorms rolled through the region on Monday night, . No injuries or damage estimates were reported.

On Tuesday, with a photo gallery from a recent trip to Shirley Povich Field at to see the Bethesda Big Train play.

The Montgomery County Council on Tuesday such as the laundry rooms, hallways and stairwells of apartment buildings. The ban also prohibits smoking within 25 feet of playground areas on privately owned property that serves residents of more than one home, such as playground areas in townhouse communities and subdivisions of single-family homes.

Also Tuesday, to move its corporate headquarters from downtown Silver Spring to a new building in Rockville Town Center. The move is expected in spring 2013.

A Rockville man last year. Vaughan Barksdale, 47, faces a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison when he is sentenced on Oct. 20.

On Wednesday, Rockville Patch took a look at questions and details about the proposed grocery in Rockville Town Square that emerged from last week’s county licensing board hearing. The “Q&A” addressed and explained .

Wednesday’s edition of “Rockville Rundown” also included .

A lupus drug developed by Rockville-based Human Genome Sciences, Inc. , the company and its pharmaceutical partner GlaxoSmithKline PLC announced on Thursday.

Thursday also brought a profile of .

The RideOn and Metro sales office , the county announced on Thursday.

Also Thursday, Patch reported about .

On Friday, we closed out the workweek with a look at.