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The former Penn State Beta Theta Pi currently sits empty on Burrowes Road after being shut down. A Penn State fraternity pledge died after stumbling and falling several times with toxic levels of alcohol in his body and suffered for hours with severe injuries while his friends failed to summon help, authorities said Friday, May 5, 2017, in announcing criminal charges against the fraternity and 18 of its members.(Abby Drey/Centre Daily Times via AP)
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FILE - In this June 12, 2010, file photo, stranded passengers stand at the Spirit Airlines ticket counter at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. ABC News reported on May 9, 2017, that sheriff's deputies were brought in to calm angry passengers at the airport after nine Spirit flights were cancelled on May 8. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 30, 2010, file photo, people stand in the rubble of a collapsed building in the aftermath of a massive earthquake in Port-au-Prince. The Trump administration is hunting for evidence of crimes committed by Haitian immigrants as it decides whether to allow them to continue participating in a humanitarian program that has shielded tens of thousands from deportation since the 2010 earthquake. The Homeland Security Department has not made a final decision about Temporary Protected Status for Haiti and declined to comment on the pre-decisional process. The Obama administration included Haiti in the program shortly after the January 2010 earthquake that killed as many as 300,000 people and devastated schools, hospitals, homes and even entire neighborhoods (AP Photo/Rodrigo And, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2010, file photo, Haitian police use sticks to try and keep the crowd in order at a food distribution point in the Cite Soleil neighborhood in the aftermath of the Jan. 12 earthquake in Port-au-Prince. The Trump administration is hunting for evidence of crimes committed by Haitian immigrants as it decides whether to allow them to continue participating in a humanitarian program that has shielded tens of thousands from deportation since the 2010 earthquake. The Homeland Security Department has not made a final decision about Temporary Protected Status for Haiti and declined to comment on the pre-decisional process. The Obama administration included Haiti in the program shortly after the January 2010 earthquake that killed as many as 300,000 people and devastated schools, hospitals, homes and even entire neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
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In this Tuesday, May 2, 2017 photo, a New York Police Emergency Services Unit officer hooks a carabiner onto a rail as he reaches the top of the Brooklyn Bridge during a training exercise, in New York. Training exercises such as the recent climb up a suspension cable to the top of the iconic bridge, protected only by a safety harnesses clipped to a wire, are designed to get team members thinking beyond the risk to their own lives so they can help save someone else’s. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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In this Tuesday, May 2, 2017, photo, Emergency Services Unit officer Quinn secures his safety line as other members of the unit finish ascending the south support cable for the Brooklyn Bridge during a training exercise, in New York. Training exercises such as the recent climb up a suspension cable to the top of the iconic bridge, protected only by a safety harnesses clipped to a wire, are designed to get team members thinking beyond the risk to their own lives so they can help save someone else’s. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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FILE- In this Feb. 28, 2017 file photo, a small flow of water goes down Oroville Dam's crippled spillway in Oroville, Calif. California is asking the federal government to pay for 75 percent of the hundreds of millions of dollars in repairs to the badly damaged spillways at the nation's tallest dam, a state water agency spokeswoman said Monday, May 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
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Alexander West and his defense lawyer Cheryl Coleman listen to the jury's verdict Monday, May 8, 2017, in a fatal boat crash case in Warren County Court in Queensbury, N.Y.. West, on trial for manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and 10 other charges stemming from the death last summer of 8-year-old Charlotte McCue, was found guilty of eight of 12 counts with the weightiest charge being second-degree manslaughter. (Shawn LaChapelle/The Post-Star via AP, Pool)
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Alexander West is handcuffed following the reading of the verdict Monday, May 8, 2017, in the fatal boat crash trial in Warren County Court in Queensbury, NY. West, on trial for manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and 10 other charges stemming from the death last summer of 8-year-old Charlotte McCue, was found guilty of eight of 12 counts with the weightiest charge being second-degree manslaughter. (Shawn LaChapelle/The Post-Star via AP, Pool)
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Firefighters take a break Monday, May 8, 2017, outside a church in St. George, Ga., where officials have issued a mandatory evacuation as a vast wildfire burns at the town's edge. The fire started April 6, 2017, in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge near the Georgia-Florida state line and has since burned roughly 210 square miles. (AP Photo/Russ Bynum)
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A fire truck passes as a plume of smoke rising from a wildfire burning, Monday, May 8, 2017, just outside the town of St. George, Ga. Officials placed the town under a mandatory evacuation after winds pushed the fire out of the neighboring Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, where a lightning strike started the blaze a month earlier. (AP Photo/Russ Bynum)
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Rescue workers investigate at the scene where a Fort Wayne Community Schools bus ran into a home in Fort Wayne, Ind., Monday morning May 8, 2017. WANE-TV reported no students were aboard the bus when it collided with another vehicle and hit the home. (Cathie Rowand/The Journal-Gazette via AP)
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In this Saturday, May 6, 2017 photo provided by the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge smoke rises from a wildfire east of Fargo, Ga. Firefighters were battling Sunday to prevent the fire from spreading, authorities said. (Ben Palm/Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge via AP)
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Three defused WWII bombs sit on the bed of a truck in Hannover, northern Germany, Sunday, May 7, 2017. 50,000 people have been evacuated on Sunday. (Peter Steffen/dpa via AP)
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FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 9, 2017 file photo, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo delivers one of his State of the State addresses in New York's One World Trade Center building. New York officials estimate the House of Representatives' Thursday, May 4, 2017 bill to overhaul the Affordable Care Act would lead to 2.7 million residents losing coverage and the state losing up to $6.9 billion in federal Medicaid money. Cuomo said such cuts would reduce support for hospitals, nursing homes and 7 million New Yorkers who rely on the program. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
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In this photo taken on Saturday, May 6, 2017, emergency services at the scene after a jet ski accident, in Brondby on the outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark. Danish police say they suspect that reckless driving by jet skiers in a Copenhagen harbor caused them to crash into a small boat, killing two people. (Kenneth Meyer/Ritzau via AP)
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FILE - In this Oct. 9, 2016 file photo, Alex Bligen clears away debris from Hurricane Matthew that washed over the only road into Edisto Island, S.C. Republican-led South Carolina, which has long resisted tax increases, is among those seriously considering a gas tax hike in 2017 to pay for transportation improvements. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
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A tow truck driver walks past a big rig truck stuck in a sinkhole in San Francisco, Friday, May 5, 2017. A truck driver escaped unharmed early Friday after a massive sinkhole started swallowing his big rig on a San Francisco street. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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Emergency crews work on removing a big rig truck stuck in a sinkhole in San Francisco, Friday, May 5, 2017. A truck driver escaped unharmed early Friday after a massive sinkhole started swallowing his big rig on a San Francisco street. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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Emergency crew workers remove debris from a sinkhole in San Francisco, Friday, May 5, 2017. A truck driver escaped unharmed early Friday after a massive sinkhole started swallowing his big rig on a San Francisco street. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
