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ATHENS, Greece – Coroners testing the remains of passengers and crew of a Cypriot airliner that slammed into a mountainside near Athens (search) will try to determine if the 121 people were already dead when they crashed, while French experts will examine the plane’s black-box recorders, officials said Monday. The …

LOS ANGELES – Brock Peters (search), best known for his heartbreaking performance as the black man falsely accused of rape in “To Kill a Mockingbird,” (search) died Tuesday at his home after battling pancreatic cancer. He was 78. Peters was diagnosed with the disease in January and had been receiving …

RENTON, Wash. – A midair collision Thursday between two light planes over this south Seattle (search) suburb sent one plane crashing through the roof of an empty school, killing the two people aboard, officials said. The second aircraft, a float plane, landed safely at the nearby Renton airport (search), with …