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Lucio Osbaldo Moya, 29, a deputy U.S. marshal, faces charges in McAllen, Texas, of obstruction of justice and being an accessory after the fact over allegations that he disclosed the identity of an undercover drug agent to his father, Juan Norberto Moya, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison earlier this year for smuggling marijuana.

Kensen Shi, 17, of College Station, Texas, has won a $100,000 scholarship from the Siemens Foundation for developing a computer algorithm that helps robots navigate around obstacles.

Former President George W. Bush

said during a conference hosted by the George W. Bush Institute and the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas that the United States should “keep in mind the contribution of immigrants” as it debates immigration policy, adding: “Immigrants have helped build the country that we’ve become, and immigrants can help build a dynamic tomorrow.”

Ahmed Ferhani, 27, pleaded guilty in New York City to rare state-level terror charges that he plotted to blow up city synagogues, saying he had wanted to “send a message of intimidation” to the city’s Jewish community.

Col. Tara Osborn

has been appointed to preside over the case of Maj. Nidal Hasan, who is accused in the 2009 shootings that killed 13 and wounded more than two dozen at Fort Hood, Texas, replacing Col. Gregory Gross, who was ousted Monday.

Dan Motrescu

has been sentenced to 12 weeks in jail for climbing naked onto a bronze statue of the 19thcentury Duke of Cambridge in London, ripping off the duke’s sword and biting it.

Nancy Huston, 59, an award-winning novelist, has won a less-than-flattering prize, Britain’s Bad Sex in Fiction award, for her novel Infrared, a tale of a photographer who takes pictures of her lovers during sex, which included a description of “flesh, that archaic kingdom that brings forth tears and terrors, nightmares, babies and bedazzlements.”

Front Section, Pages 1 on 12/05/2012

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