HONOLULU

1 Marine dead, others injured in Osprey accident

The Marine Corps says one Marine has died after an Osprey aircraft made a hard landing in Hawaii and the 21 other people on board were taken to hospitals.

The 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit said in a statement Sunday that the Osprey had a “hard-landing mishap” around 11:40 a.m. while the Marines were training at Bellows Air Force Station on Oahu.

A Marine Corps spokesman, Capt. Brian Block, says 22 people were aboard the aircraft, including 21 Marines and one Navy corpsman assigned to the unit.

The 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit is based at Camp Pendleton in California.

KATHMANDU, Nepal

Casualties identified from doomed relief mission

The bodies of six U.S. Marines and two Nepalese soldiers who were aboard a Marine helicopter that crashed during a relief mission in earthquake-hit Nepal have been identified, officials said Sunday.

The wreckage of the UH-1 “Huey” was found Friday following days of intense searching in the mountains northeast of Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital. The first three charred bodies were retrieved Friday by Nepalese and U.S. military teams, and the rest were found Saturday.

The U.S. Marines who were killed were Capt. Dustin R. Lukasiewicz, from Nebraska, Capt. Christopher L. Norgren, from Kansas, Sgt. Ward M. Johnson IV, from Florida, Sgt. Eric M. Seaman, from California, Cpl. Sara A. Medina, from Illinois, and Lance Cpl. Jacob A. Hug, from Arizona, according to a statement from the U.S. military joint task force in Okinawa, Japan.

WASHINGTON

Apple CEO stresses social responsibility to graduates

Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook, in a rare public speech, called on new college graduates to fight for what they believe in and said his journey of self discovery led to his view that equality is a right.

“The sidelines are not where you want to live your life,” Cook told a crowd of more than 25,000 people at George Washington University’s graduation ceremony on Sunday. “The world needs you in the arena. There are problems that need to be solved, injustices that need to be ended, people who are still being persecuted, diseases still in need of a cure.”

The remarks in Washington are part of a broader trend toward social activism in corporate America. Cook joined other Silicon Valley leaders in March to criticize Indiana for enacting a law that they said targeted the gay community. Sunday’s speech comes just weeks before the U.S. Supreme court is set to rule on a historic case that may legalize same-sex marriages in the U.S..

– From news service reports