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Stuart McIntosh, 77, of Lower Icknield Way, sadly died at the scene on the A4129 Thame Road. The accident happened on the evening of October 19 last year. An inquest into his death on February 3 heard Mr McIntosh, of Little Horsenden Farm, was crossing over to the other side of the road when he was hit. In a statement read out to Beaconsfield Coroner’s Court, Max Smith, the driver of the car, said he “suddenly” saw “a pedestrian” – Mr McIntosh – “walking from the left t...

Times Staff Writer The Buena Vista Board of Trustees is scheduled to have an open-ended discussion on the subject of short-term rentals in town at its next meeting Tuesday, Feb. 9. Also on the agenda for approval is a cost allocation agreement for resurfacing and drainage work to be done by the town on the alley of Block 21, which runs between South Court and Beldan streets.  Construction on the project will be done by the town, the cost will be shared under the agreement by the property own...

Washington Metrorail Safety Commission audit says Metro does not know vital information regarding its bridges. WMATA When it comes to its own bridges, Washington Metro has a lot to learn. An audit by the Washington Metrorail Safety Commission has revealed that Metro does not know exactly how much weight its elevated structures can carry and that the agency needs to replace a type of bearing in 10 of is bridges. The agency also needs to make sure inspectors have proper training and credentials. ...

Gainesvilles Robert Reisman scored 25 points to lead the Red Elephants past West Forsyth on Tuesday. Photo/Seth Chapman, File GAINESVILLE — Its what you expect on the hardwood in mid-January.  The battle for region tournament seeding was on full display Tuesday night as the Gainesville boys basketball team (13-6, 5-2 Region 6-7A) battled back from a 15-10 first-quarter deficit and deflected several West Forsyths blows to escape with a 59-52 victory at home.  Robert Reisman led Gainesville...

A Metro project quietly shelved last year is about to make an attempted comeback in 2021. The agency has a new plan to make its train doors open automatically at stations again, beginning on the Red Line in January, and coming to the rest of the system later in the year. If this sounds like a repeat story, it’s not just you. Metro published two press releases in 2019 announcing a return to Automatic Door Operation (ADO), wherein doors of its Metrorail trains would automatically open when the ...

Pompeos need to be close to president trump and support him in every way has caused him to give up the integrity that i think is an essential element to being a successful leader. im afraid that secretary pompeo has abrogated any claim that he has to being a leader of integrity. >> a lot to get to in the hour ahead. i want to begin with the breaking news in the impeachment inquiry. i want to bring in max smith and frank bruni. max, i want to start with you because i want to get your reaction to ...

Has damaged his own reputation by failing to defend career diplomats caught up in the ukraine scandal. >> its very clear that mr. pompeos need to be close to president trump and support him in every way has caused him to give up the integrity that i think is an essential element to being a successful leader. im afraid that secretary pompeo has abrogated any claim that he has to being a leader of integrity. >> a lot to get to in the hour ahead. i want to begin with the breaking news in the impeac...

Theyve never had to do that before in any election. so, those voters have to know that some time between now and tomorrow at midnight, they can come into the elections board in fairfax county and argue that their vote be counted. new rule. the state board of elections clarifying tonight in a letter that they really dont know how things were done in fairfax county in the past. they dont particularly care how things were done in fairfax county in the past, but this is the way theyre going to be do...

They decide whether the ballot should be accepted or rejected. the other people are the three members of that local board of elections and one member of each party, the republicans and the democrats. and its the and that representative that has caused so much of an issue here because the state board of elections interprets that law, which was implemented in 2012, last year, as saying the voter and the representative must both be there. >> both be there together, right. >> fairfax county had been...

0 districts in the northern part of the state, it was like an 88% return on those absentee ballots or 86%. but in the most heavily democratic parts of fairfax county, in the congressional district that is the bluest part of that whole blue county, it wasnt 80%, 85%, 90% of the people turning in their absentee ballots. for some reason, there and just there, it was only 50%. why is that? if you did the math, it turned out that it was more than 3,000 absentee ballots that you would have expected fr...