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Convicted bank robber nabbed again

Jul. 7, 2009
A convicted bank robber has been charged with holding up a San Francisco bank, a heist that was captured on video hours after a surveillance camera caught him picking up a check at a halfway house in the Tenderloin, authorities said. Steven Adams, 52, was...
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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