The Night Note: 3/11/10
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ANOTHER DERAILMENT ON THE RED LINE
Human error may be to blame after a Red Line train carrying two train operators derailed Wednesday, Metro officials say.
The front two wheels of a four-car train jumped the tracks inside the Brentwood Rail Yard around 12:20 p.m. Wednesday, Metro says.
No one was injured. (WTOP)
LESBIAN TEEN SUES MISS. SCHOOL OVER PROM FLAP
The American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi is suing to force a school district to host a prom it canceled after a lesbian student asked to bring her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo.
The federal lawsuit was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Oxford on behalf of 18-year-old Constance McMillen. (Yahoo News)
NO TICKET SPAT THIS YEAR
There will not be a repeat of Ticketgate this spring.
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's administration delivered to D.C. Council members their baseball tickets to Nationals' Park Thursday morning - nearly a month before the team's first exhibition game on April 3.
In the past two seasons, spring was marked by Fenty holding on to the tickets, a rite that irked council members and did nothing to help relations between them and the mayor. (Washington Post)
SMELL IN COLORADO CENSUS OFFICE WAS FROM POT NEXT DOOR
Authorities say the strange odor seeping into a western Colorado Census Bureau office came from more than 1,000 marijuana plants growing next door.
Grand Junction census workers say the smell was coming through the vents. Police got a search warrant Tuesday and found the plants next door in the same building. (MSNBC)
Posted Thursday, Mar 11, 2010 - 7:00 PM EST
