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Rahul Nagvekar, 14, of Sugar Land, Texas, won the National Geographic Bee, its $25,000 college scholarship and trip to the Galapagos Islands, beating out runner-up Vansh Jain, a 13-yearold from Minocqua, Wis., and third-place finisher 13-year-old Varun Mahadevan of Fremont, Calif.

Marcus Melvin Brownlow, 20, of Palestine, Texas, has been charged with driving while impaired after the cattle truck he was driving overturned on Interstate 35E, south of downtown Dallas, and shut down the freeway for about nine hours.

Barend la Grange, one of two men who defaced a painting that depicts South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed, said he acted to defuse growing racial tension over the painting, adding: “The man who painted it is white. The owners of the gallery are white,” so he thought it only right that a white person act.

Aimee Copeland, 24, the Georgia woman who is battling a flesh-eating disease, sat up in a chair for about five hours, her father Andy Copeland wrote on his Facebook page, adding that doctors had expected their patient to last about an hour in the chair.

Barry Walter Bujol Jr ., a Texas man who tried to sneak out of the U.S. to give al-Qaida restricted military documents, GPS equipment and money, has been sentenced in Houston to 20 years in prison for attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and for aggravated identity theft.

Gov. Susana Martinez, R-N.M., and her husband were not injured when a small private airplane carrying them to Santa Fe was forced to make a hard landing after the landing gear failed to deploy.

T.J. Lane, 17, who Chardon, Ohio, authorities say has admitted shooting at students sitting at a high school cafeteria table, killing three and seriously wounding two, will be tried as an adult, a juvenile-court judge ruled.

Sabrina Grant

of Framingham, Mass., contends an apology isn’t enough and someone should face charges after school personnel pulled the wrong tooth from her fourth-grade son’s mouth.

Jessica Vega, a New York woman who faked having cancer so donors would pay for her “dream wedding” and Caribbean honeymoon, has been released from the Orange County jail after she paid back more than $13,000 to the people she had duped.

Front Section, Pages 1 on 05/25/2012

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