Plan calls for &#36;3.5M Katrina memorial
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Tucked inside a $14.4 billion blueprint for the rebuilding of New Orleans is a proposal for a Hurricane Katrina monument on a grand, "Homeric" scale, like the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
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Authorities estimated that more than 2.3 million worshippers had traveled by bus, car, bicycle to participate in the annual observance honoring the nation&#39;s patron saint.
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The appointment would put the mayor in a position to re-energize the memorial's fund-raising campaign.
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The Bush administration asked Congress yesterday for permission to transfer nearly $3.5 billion from Iraqi water, sewer and electricity projects to pressing security, economic
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By Heather Civil, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Jun. 8--SANTA ROSA BEACH   -- The controversy over Gulf Cemetery has yet to be resolved.
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The Bush administration asked Congress on Tuesday for permission to transfer nearly $3.5 billion from Iraqi water, sewer and electricity projects to pressing security, economic and electoral
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By Tom Wilemon, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 20--BILOXI -- The Biloxi City Council with a unanimous vote on Monday asked the Mississippi Department of Transportation to designate a portion of U.S. 90 as the Dr. Gilbert R. Mason Sr. MD Memorial Highway.
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New Orleans' latest plan to recover from Hurricane Katrina calls for a 10-year rebuilding program costing $14 billion that will leave some neighborhoods still sparsely populated.
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Construction on a &#36;3.5 million restaurant and music hall being built by country singer Toby Keith could begin next month.
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About &#36;92 million of the &#36;350 million that the Bush administration pledged for tsunami relief assistance has been spent so far, a U.S. government official said Friday.
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President Bush plans to ask Congress on Monday to rush about &#36;2.5 billion in additional aid to hurricane-battered Florida, administration officials said on Friday.
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President Bush proposed a &#36;2.57 trillion budget Monday that would erase scores of programs and slice Medicaid, disabled housing and many more but still worsen federal deficits by &#36;42 billion over the next five years.
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Families of British victims in the Sept. 11 terror attacks would gather at a memorial garden here on Saturday to commemorate the third anniversary of the tragic event.
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President Bush asked Congress Tuesday for another &#36;3.1 billion to help Florida and other states recover from the battering they have endured from recent hurricanes.
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After wrestling with the costs and design of the Sept. 11 memorial, planners face another dilemma &amp;#151; whether to charge admission to the museum honoring those who died at the World Trade Center.
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NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 7 -- Public housing officials decided Thursday to proceed with the demolition of more than 3,500 government apartments here, brushing aside an outcry from residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina who said the move was intended to reduce the ability of poor black people to...
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Americans rang church bells, remembered the nearly 3,000 dead and gathered to pray on Saturday to mark the third anniversary of the devastating Sept.