--Erwin Hirsch, chief of trauma surgery at Boston Medical Center, died yesterday when his boat capsized off the coast of Maine. Hirsch also did tours in Vietnam and Iraq. He was 72 years old. [Boston Herald, Boston Globe] --A lawyer for Neil Entwistle, the man who allegedly killed his wife and 9-month-old daughter in Hopkinton in 2006, has summoned ex-Herald reporter Michele McPhee and current Herald reporter Laurel Sweet for a story they did......

--Obligatory stories about high gas prices over Memorial Day. Thanks to high gas prices, now you have to dig for conversation topics with family members at home instead of on the Cape. [Boston Herald] --Did Mayor Menino just call Bill Clinton "Big Daddy"? [Boston Globe] --Governor Deval Patrick is in trouble again for spending like a drunken sailor. Dan Kennedy suggests he may have a "tin ear." Then again, it's Menino who called Bill......