NEW YORK, April 17 (Xinhua) -- The Times-Picayune of New Orleans and The Sun Herald of Biloxi, Mississippi, shared the Pulitzer Prize for public service on Monday for their coverage of the destruction and aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

    The Times-Picayune also won the Pulitzer for breaking news reporting. The Washington Post received four awards, and the New York Times received three. The Rocky Mountain News in Denver won two Pulitzers.

    The 90th annual Pulitzer Prizes, announced Monday by the Columbia School of Journalism, marked the first year the school has accepted entries with online material from newspapers in all 15 journalism categories. The public service category has allowed newspapers to submit Internet materials since 1999.

    The last time there were two public service awards in a single year was 1990, when the winners were the Philadelphia Inquirer and The Washington Daily News of North Carolina, said Sig Gissler, Pulitzer Prize administrator.

    The Washington Post's awards went to Susan Schmidt, James V. Grimaldi and R. Jeffrey Smith for their coverage of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal; to David Finkel for explanatory reporting for his writing on the U.S. government's efforts to bring democracy to Yemen; Dana Priest for beat reporting for work about the U.S. government's counter-terrorism measures; and Robin Givhan for criticism reporting for her fashion coverage.

    The Times was part of a tie for national reporting -- James Risen and Eric Lichtblau of the Times for the Bush administration's domestic eavesdropping measures, and the staffs of the San Diego Union-Tribune and Copley News Service for coverage of the Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham scandal.

    The two awards to the Rocky Mountain News of Denver were for Jim Sheeler's feature reporting on a Marine officer who helps families cope with Iraqi war losses, and for Todd Heisler's feature photography for funeral coverage of Colorado Marines killed in Iraq.

    Rick Attig and Doug Bates of The Oregonian in Portland were honored for editorial writing, and Mike Luckovich of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution received the prize for editorial cartooning.

    The Dallas Morning News received the Pulitzer for breaking newsphotography for its Katrina coverage.

    Prizes in the arts, including literature and music, also were announced.

    "March," Geraldine Brooks' novel that imagines the life of the fictional father in Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women," won a Pulitzer for fiction.

    For the first time since 1997, however, the Pulitzer board declined to award a prize for drama.

    David M. Oshinsky was awarded the history prize for "Polio: An American Story." The prize for general nonfiction went to Caroline Elkins for "Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya."

    Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin took the prize for biography for"American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer." The prize for poetry went to Claudia Emerson for "Late Wife." Yehudi Wyner took the music prize for "Piano Concerto: 'Chiavi in Mano.'"

    The Pulitzer Prizes for excellence in journalism, literature and the arts are presented and administered by Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in New York. Prize categories include reporting, commentary, photography, drama, music, biography, poetry and history. Enditem