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Investigators today announced that the Metrolink commuter train involved in a crash with a freight train yesterday in Rialto ran past a red signal. "But we don't know why," Ted Turpin of the National Transportation Safety Board told the LA Times. A red stoplight was ran by the Metrolink train that crashed head on with a freight train in September killing 25 in Chatsworth. Yesterday's crash was minor in comparison--five people were injured--but it is raising questions about Metrolink's ability to safely operate trains on tracks shared by other train agencies.

Yesterday morning's crash involving a Metrolink train and a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway train sent five people to the hospital with minor injuries. The trains were trains in opposite directions and the front locomotive of the Metrolink train sideswiped the 92nd car of the 102-car-long train. What exactly happened is under investigation.

To accommodate filming of the feature film The Hangover, "a three-mile section of the eastbound Foothill (210) Freeway, east of the Interstate 15 interchange, is closed during daylight hours Saturday and Sunday," reports abc7.com. If this affects your drive, you will be able to find out what the detour routes are via notices posted on area streets. Although the filming is taking part under the auspices of a state-level plan to keep film and television productions local, people like the Mayor of Rialto are worried the freeway closure will negatively affect local businesses. According to the report, the city was not notified of the 210 closure until Thursday.

In our weekly LAistory series we take a look at the people, places, and events in our city's amazing history. Our topics range from the long-forgotten, old familiar, or completely new to Angelenos, and hopefully our work reminds you that although our city is rich with history. Some of you may want to learn more and do your own digging...so this week we're bringing you some cool historical events that are happening that can help take you back in time. And in the meanwhile, if you have a person, place, or event you want to see covered in LAistory, use the comments to let us know! Our detectives will get on the case.

A 48-year-old man in San Bernardino County is the third person this year to die from the West Nile Virus. "The Rialto man, who died Aug. 27, also suffered from preexisting medical conditions, which increased his chances of dying from the virus, officials said. They did not know how the victim, whose name was not released, contracted the virus" reported the LA Times. There have been 132 cases of the virus reported in the state this year. Of those, 97 have been in San Bern., Riverside, Orange and LA counties. There were 380 cases and 21 deaths due to the virus in 2007. The other two virus-related deaths of 2008 happened in Orange County.

Stealing $15 of Del Taco food for you and your buddies can land you a maximum of seven years in prison. That's what two accomplices are up against in a case where three men filmed themselves tricking Del Taco employees over the phone to give them a free meal and then posting it on YouTube. The video's "star," Robert Echeverria, who Rialto police said is a known gang member and was "crying like a baby" at the station before making a plea bargain to serve 30 days in jail with three years of probation.

Rodney King, whose videotaped beating by LAPD officers (and their subsequent acquittal) sparked the Los Angeles riots in 1992, was shot late last night, according to San Bernardino police. King was shot in the face and arm with a pellet gun (LA Times) or perhaps a shotgun (KNX, USA Today) while riding his bike home to Rialto. King, the 42-year-old man who gained national fame when his 1991 beating by Los Angeles police was caught...