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Summer hours start this week at Mount Rushmore
• KEYSTONE, S.D. (AP) -- Mount Rushmore National Memorial starts its expanded summer hours this week.
• The Black Hills tourist site draws nearly 3 million visitors every year.
• Starting Friday, the Lincoln Borglum Visitor Center and Information Center will be open from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. The evening program and lighting ceremony will start at 9 p.m.
• Hours for other attractions at the memorial are available on its website.
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Don Meyer, among coaches with most wins, has died
DAVE KOLPACK, Associated Press
CARSON WALKER, Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Don Meyer, one of the winningest coaches in college basketball who came back from a near-fatal car accident and liver cancer before closing out his career, died Sunday in South Dakota. He was 69.
• Meyer led his teams into the playoffs 19 times and compiled a 923-324 during his 38-year career, most of which he spent at Lipscomb in Tennessee and Northern State in South Dakota.
• The former Northern State coach died Sunday morning of cancer at his home in Aberdeen, where he had recently gone into hospice care, family spokeswoman Brenda Dreyer said.
• "He won his greatest victory and is now running again and gearing up to pitch nine innings," the Meyer family said in a statement. "The family appreciates the outpouring of love, prayers and concern."
• Four months after a near-fatal car accident and a cancer diagnosis, Meyer passed Bob Knight as the NCAA's winningest coach in men's basketball history in 2009. The native of Wayne, Nebraska, retired following the 2010 season at Northern State and a 13-14 record -- only his fourth losing season.
• Some of the greatest names in college basketball were his biggest fans, including Duke's Mike Krzyzewski, who surpassed Meyer's record in 2012 and once said Meyer did "a wonderful job of giving back to our great game." Former Tennessee women's coach Pat Summitt, who holds the all-time win record for college basket (Continued on page 27)
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