In 2001 LaChanze lost husband Calvin J Gooding in the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks. Twelve years later, the Tony Award winner for The Color Purple - newly single following a split from second husband Derek Fordjour — began a new Broadway journey in If/Then, a musical about chance, choice and starting over. LaChanze recently honored her late husband by singing "Amazing Grace" at the May 15 dedication of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.

As darkness falls on the September 11 Memorial plaza these warm summer evenings, security guards go to work with yellow chains and movable fencing, preparing to close off entry to the eight-acre site. At 9 p.m., the time that the plaza shuts down, that task is done and the next job begins: turning away a continuous stream of visitors who are left unhappy and confused. More.

The National September 11 Memorial & Museum foundation, with its new museum recently opened in Manhattan, often speaks of its "stakeholders": family members of victims, survivors, first responders, recovery workers, local residents, historic preservationists, and government officials. More.

PRIME Minister Tony Abbott has honoured the memory of Australians who died in the September 11 terrorist attacks with a visit to the memorial in New York. Ten Australians were among the 2983 victims of the attacks.

Mr Abbott laid a wreath at the National September 11 Memorial in New York on Tuesday morning (New York time). More.

The Michigan Remembers 9-11 Fund’s mission is to ensure future generations remember Sept. 11, 2001, as a day of loss and tragedy, and also as a day of heroism and sacrifice. We do so by remembering and honoring those that lost their lives on 9/11/01, including 19 with Michigan connections, and by celebrating and thanking the brave men and women across Michigan who protect and serve our local communities and the nation on a daily basis.

A state appeals court has ruled that volunteers who worked at Ground Zero independent from any group or agency are also entitled to health benefits from the World Trade Center Volunteer Fund.

Jaime Hazan, 43, says the state Workers Compensation Board had denied him benefits multiple times because as a former EMT, he was not affiliated with any agency or volunteer group at the time. More.

Washington makes for strange alliances—and even stranger enemies. But this could wind up being the oddest confrontation of all. Chiquita, the world’s largest banana producer, is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to block a 9/11 victims’ bill, The Daily Beast has learned.

And outraged supporters of the legislation accuse a senior lawmaker, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, of working with the fruit kings to stand in their way. More.

Parents who have visited theme parks with their kids know that riding the rides (even the scary ones) is the easy part. The greater difficulty comes from having to run the gift shop gauntlet at the end of the attraction before you can see daylight. It takes an act of parental super-restraint to get your family through all the tchotchkes without opening your wallet. Our boys are all teens now, but memories of such navigation at Disney and Universal are not soon forgotten.