Nation: A Metrolink train bound for Los Angeles hit a tractor-trailer on the tracks and derailed in Oxnard this morning. Three of four passenger cars landed on their sides and at least 30 people were injured. No fatalities have been reported. The truck driver ran away and was later arrested.

This comes just three weeks after a similar crash of a commuter train in Valhalla, NY killed six people.

>A federal jury in Manhattan yesterday found the Palestinian Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority liable for six terror attacks in 2002 and 2004 in which Americans were killed and wounded. The court assessed damages of $655.5 million. The two organizations immediately said they would appeal. There’s no word on whether they would pay, or even have the money to pay if they ultimately lose. But if they don’t, their assets could be seized.

At The Pump: Gasoline prices have been inching back upward for the last 29 days, reaching a national average of $2.30 a gallon, according to Triple A. Prices had dropped for 123 days in a row and reached an historic low of $2.03. But crude oil remains cheap and gasoline will likely stay in the two dollar range for the next year or more.

World: Eight or nine people were killed today in a mass shooting in a restaurant in the Czech Republic. It happened in the town of Uhersky Brod, 180 miles southeast of Prague. No word on what that was about.

>Eurozone ministers have agreed to a four-month extension of the Greek bailout, keeping the country just barely above water. Bankruptcy would probably lead Greece to abandoning the Euro.

Your Humble Correspondent: Fox New host Bill O’Reilly is doubling down in defense of his record covering the 1982 Falklands War for CBS News. The NY Times quotes O’Reilly saying to one of their reporters that if anything printed in the paper is inappropriate, “I am coming after you with everything I have. You can take it as a threat.”

O’Reilly has said he was in a war zone and danger, even though the fighting was 1,200 miles from where he covered street riots in Buenos Aires. Other correspondents who were there downplay the danger. Footage released by CBS fails to support O’Reilly’s claim that many people were killed by gunfire.

Unlike NBC, which suspended their number one man Brian Williams for making false claims about war coverage, Fox News and O’Reilly appear to be using the controversy to pump themselves up as the enemy of liberal establishment news organizations.

The Obit Page: Ben Woolf, an actor in two seasons on the television show “American Horror Story,” died yesterday in Los Angeles as the result of injuries sustained when he was hit by the side mirror of a passing car last Thursday. He was 34.

Just four feet four inches tall as the result of pituitary dwarfism, Woolf played the Infantata, the murderous ghost of a baby, and Meep, a sideshow performer with a one-word vocabulary who bites the heads off live animals.

Still Cold: Freezing weather continues to stretch across large swaths of the country while snow, sleet, and freezing ran fall on southern states. Dallas, 28; Traverse City, Mich. 20; Chicago, 14; Burlington Vt., 3; Boston, 8; Camden, Maine, 3.

Tea Time: Alaska yesterday became the third state to legalize recreational marijuana. Users can have up to one ounce, but may not toke in public.

Office Fling: While looking into the shooting in the Czech Republic we came across this; sex in the office, or the lack of it for unemployed young Czechs, has become an election issue.

A video produced by the youth wing of the Social Democratic party shows a young woman working at her computer until the clock strikes noon and she slips into a closet where she is seen in a passionate embrace with a man. The voiceover says, “Everybody who wants to should be able to enjoy something a bit different during breaks. It is a shame there are half a million people who don’t have jobs.”

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