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Fitness buffs fight back after being muscled out of Santa Monica neighborhood

Oct. 30, 2008
Complaints from residents along tony Adelaide Drive about the medians being overrun with exercisers led to a crackdown by police. The city will hold a public meeting on the issue tonight. Doing a few sit-ups and push-ups in Santa Monica turned James Birch into a scofflaw -- and cost him $158 to...
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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