Quickly, when will the officials of Gary and Merrillville get together and repave 53rd Avenue, east of Georgia Street? Sorry, Quickly reader.

A 52-year-old Whiting man was crushed early Thursday by an I-beam at Berlin Metals, a metal coil processing plant, the Lake County Coroner said.

Magdalena Chirinos has weathered tragedy. The Whiting woman said she lost her daughter, Maria, and her husband's son, Julio, from a previous marriage, to drunken driving accidents.