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FILE - In this May 26, 2016 file photo, Nathaniel Kibby is escorted from Belknap County Superior Court after pleading guilty and being sentenced 45-90 years in prison for kidnapping, rape, criminal threatening and witness tampering in Laconia, N.H. Kibby's sentencing was among the state's top stories for 2016. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)
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A woman lays flowers at the well-known military choir's building in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2016, after a plane carrying 92 people, with 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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Washington Wizards' John Wall during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Milwaukee Bucks Friday, Dec. 23, 2016, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Aaron Gash)
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FILE - in this Dec. 2, 2016 file photo, a woman is rescued from the rubble by emergency personnel on scene after a building collapse in downtown Sioux Falls, S.D. The collapse of the 100-year old building that killed construction worker Ethan McMahon, a 24-year-old Marine, was included in the top AP news stories in South Dakota this year. (Joe Ahlquist /The Argus Leader via AP, File)
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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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FILE - This Nov. 6, 2016, file photo, officers and colleagues gather at the scene where a West Valley City police officer died after he was struck by a vehicle during a chase, in West Valley City, Utah. A series of violent crimes involving teenage suspects over the last two months is raising tough questions for Utah courts, police and parents. Utah Criminal Justice Center Director Rob Butters said there's no single connecting thread between the cases, which range from teens accused in a car chase that left a police officer dead to a student who police say stabbed five of his classmates in a school locker room. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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FILE - This Nov. 6, 2016, file photo, officers and colleagues walk with the hearse carrying the remains of a West Valley City police officer who died after he was struck by a vehicle during a chase, in West Valley City, Utah. A series of violent crimes involving teenage suspects over the last two months is raising tough questions for Utah courts, police and parents. Utah Criminal Justice Center Director Rob Butters said there's no single connecting thread between the cases, which range from teens accused in a car chase that left a police officer dead to a student who police said stabbed five of his classmates in a school locker room. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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FILE - This Nov. 15, 2016, file photo, police stand outside Mountain View High School after several students were stabbed inside the high school, in Orem, Utah. A series of violent crimes involving teenage suspects over the last two months is raising tough questions for Utah courts, police and parents. Utah Criminal Justice Center Director Rob Butters said there's no single connecting thread between the cases, which range from teens accused in a car chase that left a police officer dead to a student who police said stabbed five of his classmates in a school locker room. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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FILE - This Nov. 15, 2016, file photo, students Albany Cox, right, and Holly Hilton leave Mountain View High School where several students were stabbed, in Orem, Utah. A series of violent crimes involving teenage suspects over the last two months is raising tough questions for Utah courts, police and parents. Utah Criminal Justice Center Director Rob Butters said there's no single connecting thread between the cases, which range from teens accused in a car chase that left a police officer dead to a student who police said stabbed several of his classmates in a school locker room. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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FILE - This Dec. 1, 2016, file photo, a police officer directs students down the street following a school lockdown at Mueller Park Junior High after a student fired a gun into the ceiling, in Bountiful, Utah. Police said a 15-year-old brought two guns to school and fired a round into a classroom ceiling before his parents arrived and disarmed him, likely preventing bloodshed. A series of violent crimes involving teenage suspects over the last two months is raising tough questions for Utah courts, police and parents. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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FILE - This Dec. 1, 2016, file photo, a police officer carries his weapon as he walks along the street in front of Mueller Park Junior High after a student fired a gun into the ceiling, in Bountiful, Utah. Police said a 15-year-old brought two guns to school and fired a round into a classroom ceiling before his parents arrived and disarmed him, likely preventing bloodshed. A series of violent crimes involving teenage suspects over the last two months is raising tough questions for Utah courts, police and parents. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 17, 2016, file photo, former Penn State University assistant football coach Mike McQueary leaves the Centre County Courthouse Annex for lunch in Bellefonte, Pa. A jury awarded $7.3 million to McQueary, finding the Penn State defamed him. The judge added $5 million because he said the school's conduct amounted to retaliation against a whistleblower. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
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FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2016 file photo Bill Cosby departs after a pretrial hearing in his sexual assault case at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. The trial is still months away, but the judge said prosecutors can use a deposition in which the comedian acknowledged using drugs as a seduction tool. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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FILE - In this June 21, 2016, file photo, Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., center, leaves the federal courthouse in Philadelphia. Fattah lost his re-election bid shortly before being convicted of using federal grants and nonprofit funds to repay an illegal loan to his failed mayoral campaign. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 24, 2016, file photo former state Attorney General Kathleen Kane leaves court in handcuffs after her sentencing at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. In August, Kane was found guilty of felony perjury and an assortment of misdemeanors related to a leak of secret grand jury materials. (Dan Gleiter/PennLive.com via AP, Pool, File)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, May, 12, 2015, file photo, Singapore teen blogger Amos Yee speaks to reporters while leaving the Subordinate Courts after being released on bail in Singapore. Yee whose video posts and blogs mocking his government and its late founder landed him in jail twice has been detained in the U.S. where he is seeking asylum. Human Rights Watch called on the U.S. to recognize Amos Yee’s asylum claim, saying he has been consistently harassed in Singapore for publicly expressing his views. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)
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In this Dec. 22, 2016 photo, a deputy with the Marion County Sheriff's Department leads inmates to a holding area for transfer back to the county jail in downtown Indianapolis following their court appearances. Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett is proposing a series of criminal justice changes aimed at making Indiana's capital the latest U.S. city to begin steering mentally ill and drug-addicted suspects into treatment instead of incarceration. (AP Photo/Rick Callahan)
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FILE - This Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016, file screenshot shows the Fancy Bears website fancybear.net on a computer screen in Moscow, Russia. Having made their name by breaching a World Anti-Doping Agency database, the so-called “Fancy Bears” hackers appear to be changing tack by seeking to peddle stolen emails directly to the media. Out of the blue and unsolicited, they contacted an Associated Press journalist with a dump of hundreds of emails seemingly stolen from the Canadian and U.S. anti-doping agencies. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
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In this Dec. 19, 2016, photo, Jaireme Barrow poses for a photo in Tacoma, Wash. A box on a Tacoma man’s porch sets off a 12-gauge shotgun blank when pulled by would-be thieves. The News Tribune reports four deliveries were stolen from Barrow before he tested his contraption for safety and set it up outside his house. (Dean J. Koepfler/The News Tribune via AP)
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In this Dec. 19, 2016, photo, Jaireme Barrow poses for a photo in Tacoma, Wash. A box on a Tacoma man’s porch sets off a 12-gauge shotgun blank when pulled by would-be thieves. The News Tribune reports four deliveries were stolen from Barrow before he tested his contraption for safety and set it up outside his house. (Dean J. Koepfler/The News Tribune via AP)
