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Calif. man gets 20 years for sex with Oregon teen

Oct. 22, 2009
A Southern California man has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison after meeting a 14-year-old girl on a cell phone social networking service and using a phone to make video recordings of sex with her. Julius Xavier Hexon was convicted in July of...
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President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch