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FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2016, file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, left, is joined by Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio during a news conference in Marshalltown, Iowa. The longtime Maricopa County sheriff had a tough year. He was voted out of office in November, losing to Democrat Paul Penzone amid lingering frustration over his legal issues and costs. He also was charged with criminal contempt of court over his defiance of a judge’s orders in a racial profiling case. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016, file photograph, Ahmad Khan Rahimi, the man accused of setting off bombs in New Jersey and New York is led into court in Elizabeth, N.J. The Afghan-born U.S. citizen who lived with his family above a fried chicken restaurant they own in Elizabeth is now in federal custody, facing federal terror charges in both states along with attempted murder charges after prosecutors said he shot two police officers while trying to flee. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2016, file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, left, is joined by Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio during a news conference in Marshalltown, Iowa. The longtime Maricopa County sheriff had a tough year. He was voted out of office in November, losing to Democrat Paul Penzone amid lingering frustration over his legal issues and costs. He also was charged with criminal contempt of court over his defiance of a judges orders in a racial profiling case. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
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Tributes are left on the gate outside the home of British musician George Michael in London, Monday, Dec. 26, 2016. On Dec. 30, authorities released a statement saying an autopsy was "inconclusive" but that circumstances of his passing were not "suspicious." (AP Photo/Tim Ireland) **FILE**
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FILE- In this June 15, 2016 file photo, law enforcement officials search the Seven Seas Lagoon outside the Grand Floridian Resort & Spa in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., after Lane Graves, a two-year-old toddler from Elkhorn, Neb., was dragged into the lake by an alligator. Associated Press newspaper and broadcast members voted Lane's death as the No. 4 story of the year. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)
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FILE - In this May 27, 2015, file photo, Nebraska lawmakers debate in Lincoln, Neb., whether to override Gov. Pete Ricketts' veto of a death penalty repeal bill. Nebraskans voted to reinstate the death penalty by overturning the Legislature's decision last year to abolish capital punishment. Associated Press newspaper and broadcast members voted It the top story in 2016. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, file)
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FILE- In this Oct. 11, 2016, file photo, Vivian Tuttle holds a photo of her daughter Yvonne, who was murdered during a 2002 bank robbery in Norfolk, Neb., as she testifies in favor of the death penalty at a public hearing in Omaha, Neb. Nebraskans voted to reinstate the death penalty by overturning the Legislature's decision last year to abolish capital punishment. Associated Press newspaper and broadcast members voted It the top story in 2016. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, file)
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In this Friday, Dec. 16, 2016 photo, Richard Higgins, whose family's well water has been contaminated by a suspected carcinogen from a Dartmouth dump site, looks down at one of many test wells installed to monitor the groundwater in Hanover, N.H. Dartmouth College said it has spent around $8.4 million cleaning up contamination where scientists dumped carcasses of lab animals in the 1960s and 1970s. (AP Photo/Michael Casey)
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In this March 23, 2015 file photo, MV-22 Ospreys are seen at the U.S. Marine Corps Futenma Air Station and the surrounding area from an observation deck at a park in Ginowan on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) ** FILE **
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FILE - In this Dec. 7, 2016 file photo, U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, third from left, accompanied by Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada, left, inspects an honor guard at the Defense Ministry Tokyo. Japan and the U.S. have agreed in principle on guidelines for limiting immunity from Japanese prosecution for civilian workers at American military bases, following a murder case this year on Okinawa involving a Marine-turned-contractor, officials said Monday, Dec. 26. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
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A watch tower and barracks of a prison camp is seen in the village of Barashevo, Russia. (Associated Press)
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Although Senate Republicans blocked President Obama's nomination of Judge Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court, the circuit courts handle much larger caseloads overall. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2015 file photo, marijuana grows at the Ataraxia medical marijuana cultivation center in Albion, Ill. North Dakota voters in November 2016 approved four of five initiated measures, an anomaly in a state that usually says "no" to messing with its constitution. That included overwhelming support of legalizing medical marijuana and a measure meant to bolster the rights of crime victims, the latter of which was opposed by prosecutors and defense attorneys alike. The vote was included as one of the top AP stories in North Dakota this year. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)
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A woman light candles are placed in memory of victims of the crashed plane in the center of Sochi, Russia, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2016. A Tu-154 operated by the Russian Defense Ministry en route to Syria crashes into the Black Sea minutes after takeoff from Sochi. Everybody aboard the plane are thought to have perished and the cause of the crash is not immediately known. (AP Photo/Viktor Klyushin)
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People light candles in memory of victims of the crashed plane in the center of Sochi, Russia, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2016. A Tu-154 operated by the Russian Defense Ministry en route to Syria crashes into the Black Sea minutes after takeoff from Sochi. Everybody aboard the plane are thought to have perished and the cause of the crash is not immediately known. (AP Photo/Viktor Klyushin)
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A woman lights a candle at the well-known military choir's building in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2016, after a plane carrying 92 people, including 64 members of the Alexandrov Ensemble, crashed into the Black Sea minutes after taking off from the resort city of Sochi. The Russian plane was headed for an air base in Syria, Russia's Defense Ministry said. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
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Flowers and candles are placed in memory of victims of the crashed plane in the center of Sochi, Russia, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2016. A Tu-154 operated by the Russian Defense Ministry en route to Syria crashes into the Black Sea minutes after takeoff from Sochi. Everybody aboard the plane are thought to have perished and the cause of the crash is not immediately known. (AP Photo/Viktor Klyushin)
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FILE - In this Friday, July 29, 2016, file photo, Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden describes the motion that witnesses described Jack Yantis made with his rifle toward two Adam County Sheriff's deputies. The conclusion of the office's investigation into Yantis' death were released in Boise, Idaho. The presidential election, racial tensions and police shootings all made the biggest headlines throughout Idaho in 2016. Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter and U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador both campaigned for Donald Trump, and by the end of the year rumors were flying that both men were in the running to be in Trump's administration. (Darin Oswald/Idaho Statesman via AP, File)
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FILE - In this photo taken Thursday, May 26, 2016, a sign welcomes residents and visitors to the tiny town in Dietrich, Idaho. The small community is struggling with the national attention brought by reports that a disabled black football player was raped by his white high school teammates. The allegations of racist taunts and physical abuse suffered by the teen were revealed this month when the family filed a $10 million lawsuit against the Dietrich School District. (AP Photo/Kimberlee Kruesi, File)
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FILE - This April 11, 2016 photo shows a portion of the prestigious Phillips Exeter Academy campus in Exeter, N.H. Two former teachers at the academy acknowledged sexual misconduct, and a former admissions officer pleaded not guilty to sexual abuse. It was one of the state's top stories in 2016. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)
