MEMORIAL DAY-VIETNAM MEMORIAL
Flyover planned in honor of Memorial Day
WASHINGTON (AP) A Memorial Day ceremony is being held at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington.
More than 2,000 Vietnam veterans and family members of soldiers who died were invited to Monday's ceremony. President Barack Obama will be the keynote speaker. The event will include a wreath laying and a moment of silence as well as a fly-over by military aircraft.
PIRACY LAWSUIT
Crew of Va. ship in piracy drama files lawsuits
(Information in the following story is from: The Virginian-Pilot, http://pilotonline.com)
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) More than half the crew members of a Norfolk-based container ship that was at the center of a piracy drama off Somalia in April 2009 are seeking damages totaling nearly $50 million.
The Virginian-Pilot reported Saturday that the lawsuits have been filed by 11 crew members aboard the Maersk Alabama. The five-day standoff ended when Navy SEALs killed three of Capt. Richard Phillips' captors.
While Phillips was hailed as a hero, his former crew members allege the New Englander's actions put them in grave danger when the ship sailed within about 250 miles of the African coast despite warnings to stay at least 600 miles offshore because of the threat of piracy.
The ship's owner and a contractor are named in the suits, filed in Norfolk and Alabama.
US-CIA-WAR DEAD
CIA remembers losses in covert operations
WASHINGTON (AP) The CIA is remembering those lost in covert operations, adding a new star to the intelligence agency's memorial wall and more than a dozen names to its Book of Honor.
The star is for Jeffrey Patneau, a young officer killed in a car crash in Yemen in September 2008.
CIA Director David Petraeus marked the loss and others to the war on terrorism at a private ceremony at CIA headquarters this past week.
The addition of the 15 names to the CIA's Book of Honor means their families can now acknowledge where their loved ones worked when they died.
Most were killed in terrorist acts over the last three decades in places like Lebanon, Kenya and Pakistan.
OBIT-WATSON
Former Indiana coach Lou Watson dies at 88
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) Former Indiana coach and player Lou Watson has died at the age of 88.
Scott Funeral Home in Jeffersonville, where Watson will be buried, said he died Thursday in Fairfax, Va.
Watson played for the Hoosiers from 1947-50, becoming its leading scorer at the time, and was first-team All-Big Ten in 1950. He was Indiana's head coach from 1966-71, guiding the Hoosiers to a Big Ten co-championship in 1967, and finishing with a 62-60 record. He became a special assistant to the athletic director in 1971, when Indiana hired Bob Knight as coach.
Watson retired in 1987.
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