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David Aguilar, head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection who spent 30 years with the Border Patrol before he was named deputy commissioner in 2010, will be retiring from the agency at the end of March.

Edwin Cox Elorde, mayor of Bunawan, Phillipines, said he was depressed after the town’s 1-ton saltwater crocodile, deemed the world’s largest by Guinness World Records and estimated to be more than 50 years old, died after the reptile flipped over with a bloated stomach, adding: “I’ve come to love that crocodile. It had brought fame to our town and the Philippines.”

Matthew Aaron Llaneza, a 28-year-old from San Jose, was arrested as part of an FBI sting operation after he parked a sport utility vehicle in front of a Northern California bank believing the vehicle contained an explosive device and then tried to detonate it with a cell phone.

Ben Hope, 39, and Jason Richards, 38, who prosecutors said were paid $1,600 each to kill a man who owed money but went to the wrong address and mistakenly stabbed to death 17-year-old Aamir Siddiqi, were sentenced in Britain to 40 years in prison.

Terry Miracle, an 82-year-old Washington state man who was weeding his garden when he heard police chasing a burglary suspect identified as 27-yearold Morgan Perry Bluehorse through yards and over fences, told The Daily News of Longview he was a little sore but otherwise OK after tapping into his high school football training to trip the suspect, giving police time to nab him.

Scott Brown, the former senator from Massachusetts who recently announced he wouldn’t run a third time for the post after losing to Democrat Elizabeth Warren last year, is in talks with Fox News about a job as a contributor, a network spokesman said.

Kimberly Margeson, a 54-year-old upstate New York woman whom sheriff’s deputies have accused of passing oxycodone pills from her mouth to her son with a kiss while visiting him in jail, has pleaded innocent to charges of criminal sale of a controlled substance and promoting prison contraband.

Le Cong Dinh, a U.S.-trained human-rights lawyer serving a five-year prison term in Vietnam for conspiring to overthrow the government, was freed early for his “good abidance by prison rules,” according to online newspaper VnExpress.

Front Section, Pages 1 on 02/11/2013

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