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Sand is eroded away on the beach in Margate N.J. on Wednesday, Aug. 2 2017, after water from one of three large ponds on the beach was pumped out to sea. City officials voted Wednesday to seek a court injunction to halt the construction of sand dunes in the New Jersey shore town, which they blame for the standing water. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
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Former Minnehaha Academy employees Elizabeth Van Pilsum, center, is comforted by friends Edie Olson, right, and Rick Olson, left, after an explosion at Minnehaha Academy Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, in Minneapolis. Several people are unaccounted for after the explosion and partial building collapse Wednesday at the Minneapolis school, fire officials said. (David Joles/Star Tribune via AP)
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A Minneapolis police officer puts up police tape following an explosion at Minnehaha Academy Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, in Minneapolis. Several people are unaccounted for after the explosion and partial building collapse Wednesday at the Minneapolis school, fire officials said. (David Joles/Star Tribune via AP)
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A Minneapolis police officer puts up police tape following an explosion at Minnehaha Academy Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, in Minneapolis. Several people are unaccounted for after the explosion and partial building collapse Wednesday at the Minneapolis school, fire officials said. (David Joles/Star Tribune via AP) (David Joles/Star Tribune via AP)
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This photo provided by the Martin County, Fla., Sheriff's Office shows Brady Kilpatrick, who was arrested Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017, the last of 12 inmates who used peanut butter to escape from an Alabama jail. The inmates escaped Sunday by writing a number in peanut butter over a cell door. An inexperienced guard in a control room thought he was opening the cell, but the number released a door to the outside. (Martin County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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This photo provided by the Martin County, Fla., Sheriff's Office, shows Brady Kilpatrick under arrest Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017, the last of 12 inmates who used peanut butter to escape from an Alabama jail. The inmates escaped Sunday by writing a number in peanut butter over a cell door. An inexperienced guard in a control room thought he was opening the cell, but the number released a door to the outside. (Martin County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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President Trump embraced a Republican-sponsored bill last week that would trim the broad range of family relationships that qualify for immigration and inject a government screen for needed skills and English proficiency into employer immigration. (Associated Press/File)
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Jeffrey Hurant, center, speaks to reporters as he leaves Federal court, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Huant, the former CEO of a once-popular male escort service website who pleaded guilty last year to promoting prostitution has been sentenced to six months in prison by a judge who said it was necessary to send a deterrent message even though she knows the business did good things for people. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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Jeffrey Hurant, center, is hugged by a reporters as he leaves Federal court, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Huant, the former CEO of a once-popular male escort service website who pleaded guilty last year to promoting prostitution has been sentenced to six months in prison by a judge who said it was necessary to send a deterrent message even though she knows the business did good things for people. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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Jeffrey Hurant, right, leaves Federal court, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Huant, the former CEO of a once-popular male escort service website who pleaded guilty last year to promoting prostitution has been sentenced to six months in prison by a judge who said it was necessary to send a deterrent message even though she knows the business did good things for people. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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Former Minnehaha Academy employees Elizabeth Van Pilsum, left, and Rick Olson, center, react after an explosion at the school Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, in Minneapolis.Several people are unaccounted for after an explosion and partial building collapse Wednesday at the Minneapolis school, fire officials said. (David Joles/Star Tribune via AP)
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FILE - In this July 6, 2017, file photo, a bouquet of flowers adorns the grave of Philando Castile on the one year anniversary of his death at Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis. Phelix Frazier Sr., the father of Philando Castile, a motorist fatally shot by a suburban Minneapolis police officer last summer, wants a portion of the $3 million settlement reached in his son's death. Frazier is serving a life term in federal prison on drug trafficking charges. (David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, File)
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FILE - In this 2013 file photo, U.S. District Court Judge Patricia Minaldi speaks during the Empowering Women Luncheon in Sulphur, La. Minaldi retired several months after taking medical leave for treatment of severe alcoholism, a court official said Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017. (Marilyn Monroe/American Press via AP, File)
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Officials work at a scene where a vehicle was found submerged in a small body of water near the intersection of Pleasant Lake and Parker roads in Freedom Township, Mich., on Monday, July 31, 2017. The body of a man has been recovered from the motor vehicle that was found overturned in a pond in southeastern Michigan. (Melanie Maxwell/The Ann Arbor News via AP)
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Officials work at a scene where a vehicle was found submerged in a small body of water near the intersection of Pleasant Lake and Parker roads in Freedom Township, Mich., on Monday, July 31, 2017. The body of a man has been recovered from the motor vehicle that was found overturned in a pond in southeastern Michigan. (Melanie Maxwell/The Ann Arbor News via AP)
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Officials work at a scene where a vehicle was found submerged in a small body of water near the intersection of Pleasant Lake and Parker roads in Freedom Township, Mich., on Monday, July 31, 2017. The body of a man has been recovered from the motor vehicle that was found overturned in a pond in southeastern Michigan. (Melanie Maxwell/The Ann Arbor News via AP)
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In this Dec. 28, 2016 photo, Robert Boyd holds high school and college diplomas he earned while incarcerated, at his home in Baltimore. At 16, he was sentenced to life for his role in a home invasion that turned deadly in Baltimore. Boyd was the lookout, standing watch on the porch. The man who fired the fatal shot was acquitted at trial. By the time Boyd was released, after 34 years behind bars, even Brian Murphy, the prosecutor who tried the case in 1982, offered to testify on his behalf. "It was not the intention of anybody back then that guys like this wouldn't get paroled," Murphy said. "It doesn't sound fair or legal." (AP Photo/Juliet Linderman)
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In this Dec. 28, 2016 photo, Robert Boyd stands outside his house in Baltimore. At 16, he was sentenced to life for his role in a home invasion that turned deadly. Boyd was the lookout, standing watch on the porch. The man who fired the fatal shot was acquitted at trial. In prison, Boyd earned degrees, stayed out of trouble, coached boxing. For years he unsuccessfully applied for parole. But in April 2016, after 34 years behind bars, he was released on probation after Johnston convinced a judge to reopen the case, arguing that Maryland's system didn't afford Boyd a meaningful chance at parole and was therefore unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Juliet Linderman)
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This combination of photos provided by the Michigan Department of Corrections shows Chester Lee Patterson in 1971 and in Aug. 8, 2015. Patterson has been behind bars for 45 years. At 17, he fatally shot a store clerk during a robbery. He got life with the possibility of parole after 10 years. Patterson has earned degrees, completed a substance-abuse program, worked in the library, and avoided disciplinary tickets. He's also been denied parole at least five times, according to records. He's awaiting a decision after his most recent hearing in April 2017. "I am not that same 17-year-old kid. I will never commit another crime again," Patterson wrote to The Associated Press. "I caused a terrible tragedy for which I will always be sorry and shameful. What more can I say to the family? I have been here for almost a half of a century, and the parole board is still saying no." (MDOC via AP)
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FILE - This file booking photo provided by the Washoe County Sheriff's Office shows, Tommy Ray McAdoo, who is accused of robbing a Reno, Nev., bank with a steak knife. McAdoo faces 25 years in prison or more when he's scheduled to be sentenced in federal court in Reno on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017. (Washoe County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)
