Faced with hefty operating costs, the foundation building the 9/11 museum at the World Trade Center has decided to charge an admission fee of $20 to $25 when the site opens next year.

The exact cost of the mandatory fee has not yet been decided.

Entry to the memorial plaza with its twin reflecting pools will still be free.

The decision to charge for the underground museum housing relics of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks has been met with dismay by some relatives of 9/11 victims.

Memorial foundation head Joseph Daniels said Saturday that the museum has little choice. It’s expected to cost nearly $60 million a year to operate the site.

Daniels said the museum will be free during certain hours every week.

The leadership of the National Rifle Association is telling its members that the fight against gun control legislation is far from over, with battles yet to come in Congress and next year’s midterm elections.

But NRA leaders vowed that none of its members would ever have to surrender their weapons.

Proponents of gun control also asserted that they are in it for the long haul and are not disheartened by last month’s defeat of a bill that would have expanded background checks for gun sales.

Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre and other NRA leaders spoke on Saturday during the group’s annual member meeting, part of the yearly NRA convention being held this weekend in Houston.

Across the street from the convention, more than 60 protesters gathered.

Police say a Utah soccer referee who was in a coma after being punched by a teenage player has died.

They say 46-year-old Ricardo Portillo of Salt Lake City died late Saturday night.

Unified police spokesman Justin Hoyal says Portillo passed away at the hospital, where he was being treated following an assault during a soccer game last weekend.

Police say a 17-year-old player in a recreational soccer league punched Portillo after the man called a foul on him and issued him a yellow card.

The teen has been booked into juvenile detention on suspicion of aggravated assault.

Hoyal says authorities will consider additional charges since Portillo has died.

A fight for Nebraska school-aid dollars was driven by large districts that have dwindling options to generate local revenue and small districts that pay more per-student for transportation and teachers.

Both sides won concessions, even though the tentative funding formula steers most of state aid to Nebraska’s largest schools. The largest schools around Omaha and Lincoln complained about flat-lined property values and larger student enrollments. Smaller schools worried about competing for teachers with Omaha, Lincoln and border states.

Of Nebraska’s 249 public districts, 114 will receive no equalization aid under the proposed funding formula. Those districts account for about 13 percent of students statewide.

The bill has won tentative approval from lawmakers but hasn’t cleared the Legislature. It’s scheduled for a second vote as early as Tuesday.

Technophobic investor Warren Buffett now has a Twitter account, but his followers probably shouldn’t expect much activity.

Buffett debuted his new (at)WarrenBuffett online handle on Thursday.

The billionaire told ABC in an interview that aired Sunday that he joined Twitter because he thought the service would help give wide distribution to an article he wrote about women in business.

Since signing up, Buffett has gained 374,212 followers. It probably doesn’t hurt that he spoke to a crowd of more than 30,000 Berkshire Hathaway shareholders on Saturday.

Buffett has always resisted investing in technology companies because he says he can’t predict the future of those businesses the same way he can in insurance or manufacturing businesses.

Dozens of Utah coal miners are picketing outside the doors of Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting in downtown Omaha.

The protesters are member of United Mine Workers of America who work at Deer Creek mine near Huntington, Utah. The mine is run by Berkshire’s MidAmerican Energy.

The union’s contract expired in January. The company and union are negotiating, but disagree on health care coverage and safety checks. The protesters hope to influence Berkshire CEO Warren Buffett.

Bernie Morris of Price, Utah, stood in the rain with others Saturday to hand out flyers with others. The 67-year-old Morris says he’s worked for the coal mine for 28 years, but fears he and his wife won’t be able to afford the monthly health insurance premium the company wants to charge miners and retirees.