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Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman waves to the crowd of supporters as he arrives at the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, in Birmingham, Ala. Siegelman was released Wednesday from a federal prison in Louisiana where he was serving a six-year sentence for bribery and obstruction of justice, a family spokesman said.(AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
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This image provided by the U.S. Marshals Service shows convicted sex-offender Matthew Stager who is wanted by law enforcement. Stager was released from the Federal Correctional Complex in Petersburg Feb. 2, 2017, and was required to self-report to a transitional center in Texas the same day, but never showed up. (US Marshals Service via AP)
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This undated photo provided by the Lake County Sheriff's Department in Crown Point, Ind., shows Carl Le'Ellis Blount, who was sentenced Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, to life in prison without parole for fatally shooting July 6, 2014, of an Indiana police officer sitting in his patrol car. (Lake County (Ind.) Sheriff's Department via AP)
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FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2011 file photo, former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman departs the Federal courthouse in Montgomery, Ala. Siegelman was released Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, from a federal prison in Louisiana where he was serving a six-year sentence for bribery and obstruction of justice, a family spokesman said. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)
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FILE - This Dec. 2, 2016 file photo shows the inside of the charred warehouse called the Ghost Ship in Oakland, Calif. Oakland police visited the cluttered warehouse converted into an illegal residence dozens of times in the several years before it burned down, killing 36 people. Oakland officials on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, released hundreds of pages of city documents requested by The Associated Press and other media outlets. The reports detail complaints from neighbors, residents and visitors of the so-called Ghost Ship warehouse about safety problems, loud parties and other issues with a dilapidated building converted illegally into a living area. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez,File)
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CORRECTS LOCATION TO MISSISSIPPI FROM MISSOURI - FILE - In this Sept. 23, 1955, file photo. J.W. Milam, left, and Roy Bryant, right, sit with their wives in a courtroom in Sumner, Miss. Milam and Bryant were acquitted of murder in the slaying of Emmett Till. Wheeler Parker and Deborah Watts, cousins of Till, said authorities should take a fresh look at the killing of Till since Carolyn Donham, then wife of Roy Bryant, who was at the center of the case, is now quoted as saying she lied in a new book. (AP Photo/File)
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In a Monday, Feb. 6, 2017 photo, Sean Delaney of OHS Towing prepares to pull a truck out of a ditch on Walsh Road in Columbia Falls, Mont. Delaney said that OHS had six drivers responding to requests that morning, and he himself had 14 calls after he finished with the truck on Walsh. ( Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake via AP)
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Plaintiff attorneys from left, Jeffrey Goodman, Robert Mongeluzzi, Steven Wigrizer, and Harry Roth speak with members of the media during a news conference in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017. Lawyers for 19 people killed or injured in a Philadelphia building collapse reached a $227 million settlement with several defendants as the jury, which already had found them liable, deliberated Wednesday on damages. Six people were killed and 13 injured when a towering brick wall left unbraced during a demolition project crushed an adjacent Salvation Army store in 2013. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Francis Sankoh, who's mother Roseline Conteh died in a 2013 building collapse, speaks with members of the media during a news conference in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017. Lawyers for 19 people killed or injured in a Philadelphia building collapse reached a $227 million settlement with several defendants as the jury, which already had found them liable, deliberated Wednesday on damages. Six people were killed and 13 injured when a towering brick wall left unbraced during a demolition project crushed an adjacent Salvation Army store in 2013. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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A woman crosses the street outside of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017. A federal appeals court will decide whether to reinstate President Donald Trump's travel ban after a contentious hearing in which the judges hammered away at the administration's motivations for the ban, but also directed pointed questions to an attorney for two states trying to overturn it. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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Tennessee Registry of Campaign Finance members Tom Morton, left, and Tom Lawless, confer during a meeting in Nashville, Tenn., on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017. The panel released an audit of expelled Rep. Jeremy Durham that found hundreds of potential campaign finance violations. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)
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Tennessee Registry of Campaign Finance members Tom Lawless attends the panel's meeting in Nashville, Tenn., on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017. The panel released an audit of expelled Rep. Jeremy Durham that found hundreds of potential campaign finance violations. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)
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FILE - This Dec. 7, 2016 file photo members of the Alameda County Sheriff's Office stand outside the warehouse called the Ghost Ship the site of a fire, in Oakland, Calif. Oakland police visited the cluttered warehouse converted into an illegal residence dozens of times in the several years before it burned down, killing 36 people. Oakland officials on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017 released hundreds of pages of city documents requested by The Associated Press and other media outlets. The reports detail complaints from neighbors, residents and visitors of the so-called Ghost Ship warehouse about safety problems, loud parties and other issues with a dilapidated building converted illegally into a living area. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg,File)
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Lexi Nelson and Shannon Lavada check out the newly carved snow cave they built near Lookout Pass Idaho, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017, during an overnight snowshoeing trek with the Spokane Mountaineers. (Rich Landers/The Spokesman-Review via AP)
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This photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows inmate Roland Reaves, convicted of aggravated murder in the 1974 slaying of Cincinnati police officer David Cole and sentenced to 15 years-to-life in prison. Hamilton County, Ohio, Prosecutor Joe Deters, the police officer's widow Cheryl Cole Candelaresi and police officials urged the public Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, to express opposition to releasing Reaves to the Ohio Parole Authority, before a planned March 2017 parole hearing. (Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction via AP)
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FILE -This undated file photo provided by the Sacramento County Sheriff's office shows Carl Ferrer CEO of adult classified ad portal Backpage. Law enforcement experts and sex worker advocates say shutting down what prosecutors call an online brothel could have unintended negative consequences. California is prosecuting Backpage.com's two founders and its chief executive and they are due in court Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017. (Sacramento County Sheriff's Office via AP,File)
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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Sacramento County Sheriff's office shows Michael Lacey one of the former owners of Backpage a major international website advertising escort services. Law enforcement experts and sex worker advocates say shutting down what prosecutors call an online brothel could have unintended negative consequences. California is prosecuting Backpage.com's two founders and its chief executive and they are due in court Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017. (Sacramento County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)
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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Sacramento County Sheriff's office shows James Larkin one of the former owners of Backpage a major international website advertising escort services. Law enforcement experts and sex worker advocates say shutting down what prosecutors call an online brothel could have unintended negative consequences. California is prosecuting Backpage.com's two founders and its chief executive and they are due in court Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017. (Sacramento County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, July 19, 2016 file photo, Alex Jones, second from right, an American conspiracy theorist and radio show host, is escorted by police out of a crowd of protesters after he said he was attacked in Public Square in Cleveland, during the second day of the Republican convention. "Scandal: Mass media covers up terrorism to protect Islam," a headline on Jones’ website Infowars alleged in July 2016. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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FILE - In this Sept. 23, 1955, file photo. J.W. Milam, left, and Roy Bryant, right, sit with their wives in a courtroom in Sumner, Mo. Milam and Bryant were acquitted of murder in the slaying of Emmett Till. Wheeler Parker and Deborah Watts, cousins of Till, said authorities should take a fresh look at the killing of Till since Carolyn Donham, then wife of Roy Bryant, who was at the center of the case, is now quoted as saying she lied in a new book. (AP Photo/File)
