Memorial Day

Newsday's coverage

• Editorial: Lowering legal blood-alcohol limit won't stop drunken driving

  Memorial Day weekend is the official start of summer fun, but also of increased patrols against drunken driving. Last year, Nassau and Suffolk county police made 71 arrests on charges of driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol from Friday evening 7:07 PM Read more »

• Yankees and Mets' TV ratings swing and miss

  we are on the doorstep of Memorial Day and of the truncated, four-game Subway Series Lite, which is a handy reminder that it is baseball season at last in Baseball City!Or so the friendly folks who bring the Yankees and Mets to our television screens hope.It 3:29 PM Read more »

• Bobby Slayton, 'Miracle Worker' top weekend events in the Hudson Valley

  so many people traveling the weekend before Memorial Day, it often can be a tough time to find notable theatrical, dance and comedy performances in the Hudson Valley. But Newsday Westchester managed to track down at least one solid show in each category, including 1:26 PM Read more »

• Metro-North shuffles schedule for Memorial Day getaway

  drivers to hit the road now, or as soon as possible, to beat the bumper-to-bumper grind that always accompanies Memorial Day weekend, annually one of the nation's busiest travel times. Thruway authorities reported no traffic problems as of midday Thursday."Probably 1:25 PM Read more »

• Police announce Memorial Day DWI, BWI initiative

  in Nassau and Suffolk counties are warning that there will be stepped up enforcement this Memorial Day weekend against people who drive vehicles or operate motorboats while intoxicated.The enforcement will include checkpoints on roads and on the water and 12:28 PM Read more »

Around the web

• VT Speed: Legends made at Memorial Day Classic

  celebrated men. Part of what endeared the Dions to the hearts of so many was their penchant to win big races like nine Memorial Day Classics, for example while running a Ford in a sea of Chevrolets, beating the likes of Beaver and Bobby Dragon, Jean-Paul 15 m ago from Burlington Free Press Read more »

• Decades later, key war moments shared

  shared, and now we can share with a wider audience, memories that broaden understanding of the sacrifices commemorated every Memorial Day. When two venerable servicemen get together after nearly 70 years, their reminiscences help frame the history of cataclysmic 16 m ago from San Luis Obispo Tribune Read more »

• Loads of Limaites hitting road for holiday

  has arrived: Memorial Day. AAA estimates roughly 1.3 million Ohioans will be traveling 50 miles or more during the Memorial Day weekend holiday, stretching from today to Monday. They’ll be spending an average of $659, a figure that’s slightly lower than in 22 m ago from The Lima News Read more »

• Funeral Financials Asks Americans to Donate their Memorial Day Beer Money to Help EOD Scholarship

  more than Yankee Stadium will sell in a game day. Funeral Financials’ editor is quoted as stating that, “The purpose of Memorial Day was to honor those that have served in war and those that have fallen, we would like to get America to be a little healthier 27 m ago from Emediawire.com Read more »

• Steve Merlo: Memorial Day a special time of remembrance

  their names are also inscribed in eternal honor in my home. They were my close friends and I still miss them. This Monday, Memorial Day, America remembers all of its fallen heroes, the men and women who have paid for our freedoms with their ultimate sacrifices. 28 m ago from Bakersfield.com Read more »