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Girl Sexually Assaulted Near School; Regional Panel Endorses Purple Line; Midshipman Held in Marijuana Case
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PRINCE GEORGE'S CRIME
Student Is Sexually Assaulted Near School
A 16-year-old Largo High School student was sexually assaulted by two teenagers as she left school Tuesday and walked on a path behind the building, Prince George's County police said yesterday.
The student told police she was walking with a male friend near the school in the 500 block of Largo Road about 3:45 p.m. when the assailants approached and assaulted the friend, who fled. The attackers then sexually assaulted the girl. She ran back to the school for help, police said.
No arrests had been made.
-- Clarence Williams
MASS TRANSIT
Regional Panel Endorses Purple Line for Metro
Plans for a 16-mile Purple Line transit link between Montgomery and Prince George's counties moved forward yesterday when the Washington region's Transportation Planning Board voted unanimously to conduct an analysis that is required for the project to receive federal construction money.
The vote marked the first regionwide approval for the project. It also was the first time the board, an arm of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, has supported an east-west rail line that would connect spokes of the Metrorail system, said Ronald F. Kirby, the council's transportation planning director.
The board is expected to formally add the Purple Line to the region's long-range transportation plan in September, after council staff members analyze the impact that a light rail line would have on the area's air quality.
The project, which would connect Bethesda and New Carrollton via Silver Spring, is not expected to pose a problem because the region is projected to be "well below" acceptable pollution limits, Kirby said.
State officials have said Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) will endorse a plan to submit the Purple Line for federal funding in the next several weeks. State transportation officials submitted the project to the planning board as a $1.68 billion light rail line that would follow the Georgetown Branch Trail between Bethesda and Silver Spring.
Nineteen people, both Purple Line backers and opponents, spoke to the board yesterday. Supporters said the line is needed to improve east-west transit in the Maryland suburbs; critics said it would cause irrevocable harm to the wooded walking and biking trail.
-- Katherine Shaver
U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY
Midshipman Held in Marijuana Case
A junior at the U.S. Naval Academy has been detained on suspicion of bringing 150 pounds of marijuana into the United States from Mexico, Navy officials said.
Navy spokesman Doug Sayers said that the midshipman was being held in the brig in San Diego and that the Naval Criminal Investigative Service was investigating.
Sayers said U.S. Customs officials pulled over the 24-year-old midshipman, whose name was not released, June 10 at the reentry point at San Ysidro, Calif., just north of the Mexican border. He said charges had not been proposed.
-- Associated Press
