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GOVERNMENT
King Memorial Planners Receive 3-Year Extension
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said yesterday that he has extended for three years the authority of the foundation that is planning the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the Tidal Basin.
The foundation's congressional authority to build the memorial, granted in 1996, was due to expire Nov. 12.
By law, Kempthorne could grant the extension if the project design had been approved by the National Capital Planning Commission and the Commission of Fine Arts, and if the project had raised 75 percent of the estimated cost of the memorial, the Interior Department said.
Last week, the National Capital Memorial Advisory Commission determined that those requirements had been met and recommended that Kempthorne grant the extension, which is until Nov. 12, 2011.
-- Michael E. Ruane
CRIME
Police Identify Victim Of Afternoon Shooting
Police have identified a 35-year-old District man as one of the victims in three unrelated homicides in the city Wednesday.
Bernard Holmes of the 700 block of Congress Street SE was found shot to death just before 4:30 p.m. in the 3500 block of Wheeler Road SE.
The names of the men killed in the other shootings that day already have been made public.
Police said the killing remains under investigation.
-- Paul Duggan
