Historic Link: It was a historic event...

Historic Link: It was a historic event when crews finished digging a subway tunnel linking downtown with North Hollywood last week. But it wasn’t the first noteworthy local linkup. Few may remember it, but the railroad connecting Los Angeles with San Francisco was completed in Lang, a forgotten community near Canyon Country, on Sept. 5, 1876. It was L.A.’s first rail link with the north.

* BOSNIA BOUND: Deputy Chief Mark Kroeker wrapped up his LAPD career and is headed for Bosnia, where he will help run a U.N. police task force. B1

* HATE CRIMES: A Lancaster man pleaded guilty to two federal hate crime charges stemming from assaults on two African American men. B3

* TOP PLAYER: Marissa Irvin, Harvard-Westlake High’s top girls’ tennis player, has lost only 16 games while winning 18 consecutive sets. She won the U.S. Open junior doubles title in early September. C8