In a Jan. 8 story about the sentencing of a Moroccan man who aided the Sept. 11 hijackers, The Associated Press erroneously described one victim. Sonia Morales Puopolo was a first-class passenger aboard one of the downed airliners, not a flight attendant. Dominic Puopolo Jr., her son, said she was a philanthropist on her way to the Latin Grammy awards in Los Angeles at the time of the hijackings.

An article on Page B2 in Tuesday’s editions about the Red Cross boosting blood collection efforts in January contained incorrect information. The organization announced plans to increase its blood collection by an additional 2,000 units this year in Maine, bringing the goal in 2007 to 73,000 units.