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Coach Don Meyer memorial services scheduled
• ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) -- Memorial services have been scheduled in South Dakota and Tennessee for Don Meyer, one of the nation's winningest basketball coaches.
• He died Sunday in his Aberdeen home at age 69. Meyer was diagnosed with inoperable cancer after a September 2008 car accident.
• Northern State University says a public service will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday in the Barnett Center in Aberdeen on the court named for the former men's basketball coach.
• A second memorial service will be held June 1 at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee, on Don Meyer Court in Allen Arena.
• 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 and Northern State.
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President of Mount Marty College in SD resigns
• YANKTON, S.D. (AP) -- The president of Mount Marty College has resigned fewer than three years after being hired to lead the Catholic liberal arts institution in Yankton.
• Joseph Benoit says he has enjoyed heading the school but misses teaching and doing research. He says he wants to resume his biomedical science career and be directly engaged in educating and training future scientists. He did not elaborate.
• Benoit was hired in July 2011. He came from the University of North Dakota, where he had served as dean of the graduate school and professor in the department of pharmacology, physiology and therapeutics for a decade.
• Mount Marty College says its Board of Trustees will soon name an interim president and come up with a plan for hiring a successor to Benoit.
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Dozens wed after Oregon gay marriage ruling
JONATHAN J. COOPER, Associated Press
BRADY McCOMBS, Associated Press
• PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Dozens of gay and lesbian couples are now legally married in Oregon after a judge invalidated the state's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage.
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