Air France Flight 447 that never made it to Paris shadows centential Paris Air Show

LE BOURGET, France — The Paris Air Show opens Monday under a morose, uneasy cloud.

Pilot of small plane dies in crash on grounds of New Hampshire resort

GILFORD, N.H. — Authorities say the pilot of a single-engine plane has died after crashing on the grounds of a New Hampshire resort.

Nationals place OF Willingham placed on bereavement list after brother killed in car accident

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Washington Nationals outfielder Josh Willingham has been placed on the bereavement list after a death in his family.

Billy Bye, halfback for Gophers in 1940s, drowns at 81 in boating accident on Minnesota lake

BRAINERD, Minn. — Billy Bye, a halfback at Minnesota in the 1940s, has drowned in a boating accident. He was 81.

Official: Burst of 24 automatic messages from Air France plane before crash inconclusive

RIO DE JANEIRO — With black boxes yet to be found from the Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, investigators are relying on physical evidence found so far and a burst of 24 automatic messages sent from the plane in the minutes before it disappeared.

Brazil: Race to gather black boxes, debris from airliner gains urgency; 6 more bodies found

RECIFE, Brazil — The search for bodies and debris from Air France Flight 447 took on renewed urgency as experts questioned how much longer efforts would prove fruitful, even as six more bodies were pulled from the Atlantic Ocean.

A look at some notable company name changes

General Motors says it has discussed changing its name as it reorganizes while it is in bankruptcy protection. But it hasn’t made any decisions yet. Here’s a look at some companies that have undergone some name changes:

Actor Morgan Freeman denies allegations by woman who was in his car when it flipped in Miss.

JACKSON, Miss. — The woman in the passenger seat the night Morgan Freeman crashed a car on a rural Mississippi highway was partly to blame for the accident, the actor’s attorney said Friday in court papers.

Mother, baby learning to walk among 4 victims remembered in wake of deadly Philadelphia crash

PHILADELPHIA — Dozens of stunned relatives held each other and wept as they remembered a mother who died with her 11-month-old daughter, a niece and a young neighbor when a car fleeing a robbery jumped a curb and smashed into the steps of the family’s row house.

3 more bodies found from lost Air France jetliner as rainy weather affects search in Atlantic

RECIFE, Brazil — A Brazilian ship recovered three more bodies from the Atlantic as searchers said weather and currents complicated their job and warned it is unlikely that all the dead from Air France Flight 447 will be found.

Police: 2 charged with murder for Philadelphia crash that killed woman, 3 kids

PHILADELPHIA — Police say the Philadelphia district attorney’s office has approved charging two robbery suspects with four counts of murder for a traffic crash that killed a woman and three young children.

Coast Guard review says response to deadly sinking of fishing boat off Mass. coast was slow

GLOUCESTER, Mass. — The U.S. Coast Guard says an administrative review has determined it was slow to respond to a deadly fishing boat accident off Massachusetts.

Air France victim IDs, seat locations could prove jet broke up in the air

RECIFE, Brazil — Brazilian authorities started to identify bodies recovered from a downed Air France jet on Thursday, and the names of victims found 53 miles (85 kilometers) apart in the ocean could help prove whether the jet broke up in the air.

State police pilot, student hiker confirmed dead in New Mexico chopper crash

SANTA FE, N.M. — Officials said both the pilot of a state police helicopter and the student hiker he was rescuing were killed when the aircraft crashed on a snowy mountain near Santa Fe.

Searchers find hiker’s body after New Mexico police chopper crashes in mountain

SANTA FE, N.M. — Searchers have found the body of a hiker who was in a state police helicopter that went down on a snowy Santa Fe mountain peak, but were still searching for the pilot.

Philly police: Officer wasn’t chasing suspects who caused crash that killed woman, 3 kids

PHILADELPHIA — A car that jumped a curb and crashed into a crowd, killing a woman and three young children, was fleeing a police officer who had tried unsuccessfully to stop the driver but who got stuck in traffic and couldn’t give chase, the police commissioner said Thursday.

Searchers reach hiker who was in NM helicopter crash on snowy mountain; pilot still missing

SANTA FE, N.M. — Searchers on Thursday reached a hiker who was in a state police helicopter that went down Tuesday night on snowy, 12,000-foot Santa Fe mountain peak, but state police refused to release details about her.

Searchers reached a hiker who was in a helicopter crash, but refused to release details

SANTA FE, N.M. — Searchers have reached a hiker who was in a state police helicopter that crashed on a snowy, 12,000-foot mountain near Santa Fe, but they aren’t releasing any details on her condition.

NJ man gets 25 years to life in 12-year-old baby sitter’s murder, still claims it was accident

NORWICH, N.Y. — A New Jersey man who ran over and killed a 12-year-old baby sitter with his truck was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison Thursday after a GPS system secretly installed by his suspicious wife helped convict him.

Bad weather frustrates search for bodies, debris from downed jetliner, Brazil says

RECIFE, Brazil — Bad weather hindered the search for debris and bodies Thursday from the crash of Air France Flight 447, according to a senior Brazilian official who said there is little chance of finding all the victims.

Philly police: Men who caused horrific crash had long rap sheets; woman, 3 kids killed

PHILADELPHIA — Police in Philadelphia say two men with lengthy criminal records were fleeing police when they caused an accident in which a car jumped a curb, slammed into a crowd, and killed four people, including an infant two days short of her first birthday.

Searchers heading for helicopter crash site in rugged NM mountains to look for 2 missing

SANTA FE, N.M. — Black Hawk helicopters airlifted searchers Thursday as close as they could to the wreckage of a state police helicopter, looking for two people still missing from that crash on a frigid 12,000-foot mountain near Santa Fe.

Hospital says woman hit by car fleeing Philly robbery scene has died, bringing toll to 4

PHILADELPHIA — A woman who was struck by a car fleeing a robbery scene died Thursday, a day after the vehicle jumped a curb, smashed into a crowd and killed three young children.

Police: Car fleeing Philly robbery scene jumps curb, killing 3 kids; mom in critical condition

PHILADELPHIA — A woman is in critical condition after a car being chased by Philadelphia police crashed into a crowd and killed three young children, at least one of them hers.

Air France got replacement sensors 3 days before crash; CEO ‘not convinced’ monitors to blame

PARIS — Air France received replacement airspeed sensors for its Airbus 330s three days before the fatal crash of Flight 447, but the airline’s chief executive said Thursday that he was not convinced faulty monitors were the cause.

Some Chicago transit service shut down after car jumps wall, lands on tracks, struck by train

CHICAGO — Service along the Chicago Transit Authority’s Blue Line was disrupted for three hours Thursday morning after a car jumped a retaining wall, landed on the tracks and was struck by a train.

Air France CEO says he is ‘not convinced’ sensors caused crash of AF 447

PARIS — Air France’s CEO said Thursday that he is “not convinced” faulty speed monitors caused the crash of Flight 447, which went down on its way from Rio de Janeiro to Paris with 228 people aboard.

Virginia memorial to honor 40 soldiers killed in WWII crash in Australia long kept secret

FORT MYER, Va. — A beach vacation in the midst of World War II turned tragic for 40 U.S. soldiers, and the circumstances of their deaths in a plane crash in Australia was long kept a military secret.

Insurance industry tests show fender-benders in micro cars can cost thousands of dollars

WASHINGTON — Even a fender-bender in a fuel-efficient mini car can lead to thousands of dollars worth of repairs, the insurance industry found in new crash tests.

Chain-reaction wreck in So. California fog injures motorists on mountain pass

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — About 30 vehicles piled up in chain-reaction crashes in heavy morning fog on a Southern California mountain highway Wednesday. At least 15 people were injured, and wreckage was scattered for a half-mile.