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Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone announces that he's shutting down a complex of jail tents Tuesday, April 4, 2017, in Phoenix. Penzone announced that he will be closing the tent city jail in the coming months and relocating inmates to other jails. (AP Photo/Matt York)
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The Baltimore Police Department came under the review of federal authorities in the wake of unrest over the death of a young black man. Now, under a new administration, the Justice Department has requested a 90-day postponement of a hearing on a proposed consent agreement. (Associated Press/File)
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FILE – In this July 3, 2002, file photo, re-enactor Ralph Archbold, portraying Benjamin Franklin, waits to board the world's largest U.S. flag-shaped hot air balloon, during an event marking the one-year countdown to the opening of the National Constitution Center under construction on Independence Mall in Philadelphia. Archbold, who portrayed Franklin in Philadelphia for more than 40 years, died Saturday, March 25, 2017, at age 75, according to the Alleva Funeral Home in Paoli, Pa. (AP Photo/Brad C Bower, File)
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FILE – In this Jan. 17, 2006, file photo, re-enactor Ralph Archbold, portraying Benjamin Franklin, applauds during a party to mark the 300th anniversary of Franklin's birth on Jan. 17, 1706, in Philadelphia. Archbold, who portrayed Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia for more than 40 years, died Saturday, March 25, 2017, at age 75, according to the Alleva Funeral Home in Paoli, Pa. (AP Photo/Joseph Kaczmarek, File)
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FILE - In this Thursday, March 31, 2016, file photo, a driver for Uber Technologies Inc., arrives at an authorized customer pick up area at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, in Seattle. A federal judge in Seattle on Tuesday, April 4, 2017, temporarily blocked the city's first-in-the-nation law allowing drivers of ride-hailing companies such as Uber and Lyft to unionize over pay and working conditions. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
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Utah Transit Authority Board Chair Robert McKinley speaks during a news conference in Salt Lake City, Tuesday, April 4, 2017. Prosecutors have agreed not to file charges against a Utah public transit agency in exchange for cooperation with a federal investigation into possible corruption and misuse of public funds by people connected to the agency, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Utah announced Tuesday. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)
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Utah Transit Authority CEO and President Jerry Benson speaks during a news conference in Salt Lake City, Tuesday, April 4, 2017. Prosecutors have agreed not to file charges against a Utah public transit agency in exchange for cooperation with a federal investigation into possible corruption and misuse of public funds by people connected to the agency, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Utah announced Tuesday. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)
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U.S. Attorney John W. Huber speaks during a news conference in Salt Lake City, Tuesday, April 4, 2017. Prosecutors have agreed not to file charges against a Utah public transit agency in exchange for cooperation with a federal investigation into possible corruption and misuse of public funds by people connected to the agency, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Utah announced Tuesday. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)
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Utah Transit Authority's Robert McKinley and Jerry Benson look on as U.S. Attorney John W. Huber speaks during a news conference in Salt Lake City, Tuesday, April 4, 2017. Prosecutors have agreed not to file charges against a Utah public transit agency in exchange for cooperation with a federal investigation into possible corruption and misuse of public funds by people connected to the agency, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Utah announced Tuesday. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)
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Utah Transit Authority CEO and President Jerry Benson and Board Chair Robert McKinley take questions during a news conference in Salt Lake City, Tuesday, April 4, 2017. Prosecutors have agreed not to file charges against a Utah public transit agency in exchange for cooperation with a federal investigation into possible corruption and misuse of public funds by people connected to the agency, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Utah announced Tuesday. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)
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U.S. Attorney John W. Huber speaks during a news conference in Salt Lake City, Tuesday, April 4, 2017. Prosecutors have agreed not to file charges against a Utah public transit agency in exchange for cooperation with a federal investigation into possible corruption and misuse of public funds by people connected to the agency, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Utah announced Tuesday. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)
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FILE - In this March 17, 2017 file photo, Canyon Mansfield, 14, holds the collar of his dog, Casey, who was killed March 16 by a cyanide-ejecting device placed on public land near his Pocatello, Idaho, home, by federal workers to kill coyotes. Environmental and animal-welfare groups have filed a lawsuit, Tuesday, April 4, 2017, claiming the U.S. government is violating the Endangered Species Act by allowing the use of two predator-killing poisons. (Jordon Beesley/Idaho State Journal via AP, File) /The Idaho State Journal via AP)
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FILE - This Thursday, March 16, 2017, file photo released by the Bannock County Sheriff's Office shows a cyanide device in Pocatello, Idaho, The cyanide device, called M-44, is spring-activated and shoots poison that is meant to kill predators. Environmental and animal-welfare groups have filed a lawsuit, Tuesday, April 4, 2017, claiming the U.S. government is violating the Endangered Species Act by allowing the use of two predator-killing poisons. (Bannock County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2004 file photo, Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong is seen before a hearing at the Erie County Courthouse in Erie, Pa. Diehl-Armstrong, a woman convicted in a bizarre Pennsylvania bank robbery plot that left a pizza delivery driver dead when a bomb strapped to his neck exploded has died in prison. A spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Pittsburgh says the federal Bureau of Prisons confirms that Diehl-Armstrong died Tuesday, April 4, 2017, at the Federal Medical Center in Carswell, Texas. (Janet B. Campbell/Erie Times-News via AP, File)
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In this April 1, 2017, photo, a man in Nogales, Ariz., talks to his daughter and her mother who are standing on the other side of the border fence in Nogales, Mexico. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly says arrests of people entering the United States illegally across the Mexican border plummeted in March 2017. That's a signal that fewer people are trying to sneak into the U.S. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Elwood R. Gutshall III was arrested March 19 in Newville, Pennsylvania, and charged with drunken driving. (Newville Police Department)
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While making oral arguments before Judge Jeffrey Locke, defense attorney Ronald Sullivan, left, confers with legal intern Jeohn Favors Tuesday, April 4, 2017, during the trial of former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston. Hernandez is standing trial for the July 2012 killings of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado, who he encountered in a Boston nightclub. The former NFL player is already serving a life sentence in the 2013 killing of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd. (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)
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At the end of the shortened day, former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez hugs his defense attorneys, including George Leontire, in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston, Tuesday, April 4, 2017. Attorneys redacted evidence and went over the judge's proposed instructions to the jury. Hernandez is standing trial for the July 2012 killings of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado, who he encountered in a Boston nightclub. The former NFL player is already serving a life sentence in the 2013 killing of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd. (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)
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FILE - In this April 4, 2016 file photo, Stephanie Seymour appears Superior Court in the Stamford, Conn., for a hearing on her February 2016 drunken driving charges. On Tuesday, April 4, 2017, charges were dropped after the former supermodel completed a year-long program for first-time offenders. (Douglas Healey/New York Post via AP, Pool, File)
