Metrolink dilemma

After three months of hearing tear-filled testimony, a Los Angeles judge has divided up $200 million among victims of the 2008 Metrolink crash in Chatsworth - but said it was $64 million short. Dana Baretholomew and Bob Strauss in the Daily News,

In an agonizing decision issued Wednesday, Superior Court Judge Peter D. Lichtman said awards for the 24 dead and more than 100 injured would not be enough because of a federal cap on damages.

"Impossible decisions had to be made," Lichtman wrote in a 33-page ruling. "What was given to one victim had to be taken from another.