Post-Tribune Staff Report January 8, 2014 1:50PM

Emergency personnel look over a Mercury Grand Marquis driven by Shelby Street, 56, of Portage, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014. Street was merging onto eastbound Interstate-80/94 from southbound Interstate 65 when she lost control on the icy roads. The Mercury went off the road to the right and flipped over the retaining wall landing on its roof. Street had to be extricated and was taken to St. mary Medical Center, Hobart, with non-life threatening injuries to her face, police said. | Indiana State Police photo.

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Updated: January 8, 2014 6:25PM

A car going too fast for existing road conditions lost control and flipped over a Borman Expressway retaining wall and onto its roof, according to the Indiana State Police.

Preliminary investigation by Trooper Tim Grayson revealed that at approximately 10:05 a.m., Wednesday, a 2000 Mercury Grand Marquis driven by Shelby Street, 56, of Portage, had just gotten off the Interstate 65 southbound and was merging onto eastbound I-80 in the right lane when she lost control on the icy roads, police said. The Mercury went off the road to the right and flipped over the retaining wall, landing on its roof.

Street, who was wearing her seat belt, had to be extricated from her car. She was taken to Saint Mary Medical Center in Hobart with non-life threatening injuries to her face, police said.

The Mercury was a total loss.

A short time later, a tractor trailer driver going too fast for road conditions

lost control and wrapped his vehicle around an informational sign that spans the interstate.

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The livelihood of several skilled residents from Dallas Castle in rural St Andrew has been boosted following their contribution to the construction of a retaining wall in their community.

The erected wall and widened road have been considered a saving grace for commerce and job opportunities and have made travel on the August Hill road easier.

It was officially opened yesterday following six weeks of repair between September and November last year.

Dahlia Thompson, one of the females who worked on the project overwhelmed by males, quickly admitted it was hard work, but it was worth it.

"It was the hardest construction work I've ever done," she said with a chuckle.

"I threw stones and I lifted stones and I cleared the riverbed, and at one point, I worked with the welder and carpenters and lifted cement," she said.

Months earlier, the road was in such a deplorable state that taxi drivers left residents halfway into the journey.

"It affected people going to school and work because when rain fall, you would have landslides [and] so persons would have to struggle with their load. If you had baskets, you would have to struggle with them by yourself or ask somebody to help you. The drivers used to use it as excuse since they didn't want to come, but now it's fixed, so they have to go the full journey," she said proudly.

Michael Patterson was employed as a carpenter on the project and said the repair work was long overdue. He said prior to the repairs, only the brave would risk using the road.

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CHICAGO (CBS) Four people reportedly were taken to hospitals after a Metra Rock Island train hit a concrete retaining wall while pulling into the station downtown.

Metra passenger Jack Lavallee said he felt a big jolt when the Rock Island Line train arrived at the LaSalle Street station around 6:30 a.m., and the train hit the metal and concrete end stop.

According to unconfirmed dispatch reports, four people were taken to hospitals with minor injuries. A total of 15 people were treated from the train.

A spokesperson for Metra said the cause of the crash was under investigation Monday morning.

Metra was experiencing a number of problems and delays due to equipment and mechanical problems caused by the cold, including frozen switches.

Also, a Metra train clipped a semi-trailer truck in Niles, at Touhy Avenue, around 6 a.m. That crash caused a 90-minute delay on the Milwaukee District North Line.

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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- When stones and chunks of a hillside retaining wall on Notre Dame Academy's property came crashing down onto a section of Victory Boulevard sidewalk, in Silver Lake between Eddy Street and Forest Avenue, the day before Thanksgiving, the cascade caused $1,000 worth of damage to the passenger-side front door panel of Anthony Sabatino's brand-new 2013 Lincoln SUV.

It could have been much worse, and not only for his vehicle, he said. Residents of nearby apartment buildings park along that stretch of Victory Boulevard, and "people walk along there with strollers and kids."

Sabatino said he was outraged that, after the incident, Notre Dame "roped it off and called it a day," without removing the rocks, rubble, and downed small tree.

The mini-landslide was caused when part of a retaining wall halfway up the hill became dislodged, Sister Patricia Corley, president of Notre Dame Academy, explained to the Advance on Dec. 31.

The wall, located behind Notre Dame's elementary school, is 85 feet long and two-and-a-half to five-feet high, she added. "The edge of that wall, due to freezing and melting, became dislodged."

Following the incident, Notre Dame signed a contract with a mason, but clearing the mess and working on the site was delayed by a combination of poor weather and the holidays, Sister Corley said.

The mason has since "cleaned all the debris and loose rocks, and put up a wooden barrier" to intercept anything that might fall in the future, she said in a Jan. 2 update.

The mason will return in the spring, to install reinforcing bars into the retaining wall, she added.

Sister Corley acknowledged the "challenge" of maintaining the hillside.

"Over the past few years, we've engaged masons to fix, maintain, and fill in," walls on the property, she said on Dec. 31. "We're very much aware of our obligation, and very much on top of it."

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In the lobby of the historic Royal Theatre in West Los Angeles, Bob Laemmle proudly points to a wall of glass-encased photos and letters from cinema luminaries of the last half-century.

"This is one of Ingmar Bergman," he says proudly, gesturing to a photo of the Swedish director, his arm around the shoulder of Bob's father, Max, taken during the 1972 premiere of "Cries and Whispers."

Next to it is a letter from the director and actor Andre Gregory, thanking Max for a party he hosted in support of the 1981 movie "My Dinner With Andre."

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Also on the wall is a chilling letter, dated Dec. 5 1935, from Kurt Laemmle to his brother Max, in which he urges his brother and parents to flee the Nazis and move to America, where their famous cousin, Carl Laemmle, had founded Universal Studios. Max followed his brother's advice and the German-born brothers launched their theater chain in 1938.

Seventy-five years later, the family-owned chain has not only survived but thrived in an increasingly competitive climate, while retaining its reputation as one of the premier art house theaters in the country.

"If you look at the track record of family businesses that have made it, to have survived this many generations is quite a remarkable achievement," said Greg Laemmle, the chief executive and third generation of his family to run the Los Angeles-based chain. "Not only are we still here, but we are in fact growing and committed to this business and this form of entertainment."

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Laemmle operates seven theaters with 34 screens in Beverly Hills, Claremont, Encino, North Hollywood, Pasadena, Santa Monica and West L.A. The chain has plans to open new venues in the next two years in Glendale, Newhall and Inglewood, where the company is in early discussions to renovate the historic Inglewood Fox Theatre as part of the city's revival efforts.

In Glendale, city officials recently approved a $12.8-million mixed-used project called the Laemmle Lofts that includes a five-screen theater, 42 apartments and 6,000 square feet of commercial space. The Laemmle in Santa Monica is also being remodeled and is expected to open by year's end.

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WINDBER Some of the Windber Area School Districts building needs are hard to miss.

There are small sections of leaking roof, a crumbling high school retaining wall and aging, inefficient windows, Superintendent Rick Huffman said.

But theres also a growing list of needs that arent nearly as easy to spot a reason the district engaged a Harrisburg firm to conduct a districtwide facilities evaluation this past fall.

All of a sudden, you sit down with a laptop and you notice things arent working nearly as fast as they were a few years ago,Huffman said. Things like the infrastructure for our wireless system and building security, those are things we have to think about for the years ahead.

McKissick Associates, a Harrisburg firm that specializes in school design and architecture, has been working since October on a list of needs at Windbers schools.

Theyll present findings to board members during their Jan. 8 meeting, a first step toward forming a game plan to address top issues, Huffman said.

The next step will be to have them work with our H.F. Lenz engineers to come up with options to address some of these concerns, he said.

Huffman said there are a few glaring needs he expects will be addressed early, such as a crumbling retaining wall and high school roof issues. But ultimately it will be up to the school board to develop a priority list, he said.

To me, safety is No. 1. Were living in changing times, and when you look at some of the events that have occurred at schools nationwide ... you learn from them, he said, noting Windbers schools were not built with security in mind decades ago.

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