Deadline passes for Sept. 11 families to file with victim fund

Wednesday, December 24, 2003

WASHINGTON -- The midnight deadline for the families of Sept. 11, 2001, victims to seek government compensation was marked by a flurry of last-minute applications from around the country and exhausted exultation in a downtown law office.

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