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Calif drops pledge of $250 bonus for state workers

Oct. 24, 2009
A California agency's chief executive has dropped plans for $250 bonuses to 7,900 employees after another agency threatened to sue. Jan Frank is stepping down Friday as president of the quasi-public State Compensation Insurance Fund. She promised the nearly $...
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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