A Wrap-Up of the News Week in Bethesda: Nov. 8 - Nov. 14

The news week kicked off with conducted by an outside contractor for Metro. Patch and other news outlets had previously reported on a publicly released summary of the audit, which surveyed the Bethesda, Dupont Circle, Woodley Park and Foggy Bottom stations and with the way Metro maintains its escalators and elevators.

Monday, blog Unsuck DC Metro leaked a draft of the audit that highlighted further problems, including issues with escalator brakes. Metro came under fire, with some claiming the leaked draft audit proved Metro knew about problems with escalator brakes a month before an accident at L'Enfant Plaza left several injured and that it didn't include the problems in the publicly released summary.

Included in the leaked draft audit were findings that all the escalators and elevators at Bethesda

Metro said the draft wasn't a final version, but that it nonetheless implemented an action plan to look at issues with escalators and elevators. Metro has since released the final version of the audit and is inspecting brakes on all 588 escalators in the transportation system. Patch recently learned that escalators at Bethesda and Friendship Heights after the brake inspection.

Tuesday, friends, family and colleagues gathered at American University's Bender arena , an AU accounting professor who was murdered in her Bethesda home late last month. Police have named 18-year-old Deandrew Hamlin, who was found driving her stolen Jeep in Washington, D.C. hours after the murder, as a possible suspect in the case. Hamlin is expected to appear in D.C. Superior Court for a preliminary hearing this week.

Wednesday, B-CC cluster representatives attended a Board of Education public hearing to for sixth graders at Chevy Chase and North Chevy Chase elementary schools, and to oppose moving the sixth-graders to Westland Middle School in Bethesda in the interim before a proposed new middle school is built. East Bethesda residents also lobbied the board for a boundary study to look at confusing matriculation patterns in the neighborhood that have elementary students there attending four different schools.

Also on Wednesday, county transportation officials released along Bradley Boulevard. That plan is still receiving either strong support or strong opposition, depending on who you ask.

The same evening, Cmdr. Russ Hamill of Montgomery County police's second district from the Glen Echo Heights and Mohican Hills communities, many of whom are still shaken in the wake of Marcum's murder.

Thursday marked Veterans Day, and Patch stopped by the at Veterans Park in the Woodmont Triangle. The wreath-laying ceremony was organized by the Bethesda Kiwanis Club and American Legion's Post 105. Patch also highlighted a recuperating at the National Naval Medical Center and Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

In other news, Patch reported that the Monty, a mixed-use residential high-rise, in January. And in an interview with Patch reporters and editors, County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) said that he was

Sunday, Patch brought you the sad news of a in Bethesda. Stay tuned for updates in that breaking case.

It's been another  busy news week in Bethesda. As always, if you have any news tips to share, email us at erin@patch.com. You can also contribute to Patch by commenting on our stories, uploading events and photos, or using our new "Shout Box" and "Q&A" features.

We'll see you next week with more news.

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