That expansion, even as the river builds to its expected crest in Winnipeg on Tuesday, is within a few days of completion, Canadian officials said.
At the Port Newark center, where a $2.6 million renovation is scheduled for completion this month, officials are already preparing for an influx of employees.
Now that that process is near completion, museum officials are trying to figure out how to encase the frail flag in a way that allows conservators access for continued cleaning and maintenance but that also displays it clearly.
The National Transportation Safety Board's investigation is months from completion, and officials in Washington said they were still working to confirm the design flaw in the so-called gusset plates and what, if any, role they had in the collapse.
An agreement between Yemen's government and its opponents on how to carry out a transfer of power has overcome setbacks caused by the outbreak of violence in the capital last week and is near completion, Yemeni officials said.
A6 NATIONAL A7-19 New Orleans SearchersAttention to the Dead Troops patrolled the streets, rescuers hunted for stragglers and New Orleans looked like a wrecked ghost town as the evacuation of the city neared completion and officials turned to the task of collecting bodies in a ghastly landscape awash in possibly thousands of corpses.
The Three Gorges dam on China's longest river, the Yangtze, is standing up to its biggest flood control test since completion last year, officials have said.
The play was initially ruled a completion by officials, but the call was challenged by the Packers.
A recount of 10,644 uncounted ballots in Miami-Dade County that was sponsored by three news organizations found a gain of only 49 votes for Al Gore, suggesting that he would not have picked up enough votes to win the presidential race even if the Supreme Court had ordered completion of official recounts.
