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Death of girl floating in river still unsolved

Jul. 22, 2009
On a July morning in 2005, Noel Miller came home from working the night shift at an Iowa nursing home and discovered that her 5-year-old daughter, Evelyn, was missing. After a massive, six-day search, two kayakers found the girl floating in the Cedar River, about a mile from her home. Four years...
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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