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HUDSON — Two Twin County college students died in the bombing of Pan American Flight 103 in 1988 over Lockerbie, Scotland, and their deaths are being remembered with the filing of criminal charges Monday against a Libyan man accused of making the bomb. J.P. Flynn, 21, of Hunter, and Christopher Andrew Jones, 20, of Claverack, were among 270 people killed in the bombing. On Monday, 32 years after the explosion, Abu Agela Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi (Masud), was charged with destruction of an aircraft resulting in death and destruction of a vehicle used in interstate or foreign commerce by...

Eric Tucker and Michael Balsamo/Associated Press and Julie M. Cohen The Justice Department announced new charges Monday against a Libyan bombmaker in the 1988 explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, an attack that killed 259 people in the air and 11 on the ground. Sarah Susannah Buchanan Philipps of Newtonville was one of the passengers on the flight. A memorial plaque honoring her can be found next to a bench near the Newton Centre playground. According to Syracuse University’s PanAm Flight 103 Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives, Philips attended Claflin School in Newtonville...