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FILE--In this Feb. 24, 2015, file photo, the logo sign for a Bully's Sports Bar & Grill is shown in east Sparks, Nev. Bully's Sports Bar & Grill has agreed to pay $375,000 in back wages to settle part of a class-action lawsuit with 15 cooks who accused the oldest sports bar chain in northern Nevada of denying them overtime pay in violation of federal labor laws. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner, file)
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Dozens of protesters upset about two fatal police shootings in Columbus, including the Sept. 14 shooting of Tyre King, a 13-year-old black teen, by a white Columbus police officer, rally outside the office of Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien, on Monday, Oct. 3, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio. The protesters are calling for an independent investigation of both shootings, changes to the way police shootings are investigated, and for O'Brien to meet with family members of both people who were shot and killed. (AP Photo/Ann Sanner)
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This booking photo photo provided by the Martin County Sheriff's Office shows Austin Harrouff, Monday, Oct. 3, 2016, in Stuart, Fla. Harrouff was charged Sunday with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted first-degree murder for the Aug. 15 slayings of John Stevens, 59, and Michelle Mishcon, 53, at their Tequesta, Fla. home. Deputies say they caught Harrouff biting the dead man's face after stabbing him and his wife to death. (Martin County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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Austin Harrouff is transported by detectives to the Martin County Jail from St. Mary's Hospital on Monday, Oct. 3, 2016. The college student who deputies say bit a dead man's face after stabbing him and his wife to death outside their Florida home was released from the hospital Monday and taken to jail almost two months after the attack. (Richard Graulich/Beach Post via AP)
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Austin Harrouff is transported by detectives to the Martin County Jail from St. Mary's Hospital on October 3, 2016. The college student who deputies say bit a dead man's face after stabbing him and his wife to death outside their Florida home was released from the hospital Monday and taken to jail almost two months after the attack. (Richard Graulich/Beach Post via AP)
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Opposition Senator and former President Alvaro Uribe talks to a fellow lawmaker during Senate session in Bogota, Colombia, Monday, Oct. 3, 2016. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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Ronald Earl Williams waits for his sentencing in front of Judge Timothy Hicks on Monday, October 3, 2016 at the Muskegon County Courthouse in Muskegon, Mich. Williams entered a no-contest plea on August 26, to second degree murder charge in the homicide and burial of Bobbie Maples. He was sentenced Monday to 18.5- to 55-years in prison by Judge Timothy Hicks. Maples disappeared in December of 2014. (Joel Bissell/Muskegon Chronicle-MLive.com via AP)
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A supporter of the peace deal signed between the Colombian government and rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, wave a flag during a rally in front of Congress, in Bogota, Colombia, Monday, Oct. 3, 2016. Colombians rejected a peace deal with leftist rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, by a razor-thin margin in a national referendum Sunday, dismissing years of negotiations and delivering a setback to President Juan Manuel Santos. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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This undated Clark County Detention Center booking photo shows Lakisha Hooks, 30. Police say Hooks was arrested on an attempted murder charge after a near-fatal stabbing of a man early Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016, in downtown Las Vegas, Nev. (Clark County Detention Center via AP)
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This undated booking photo provided by the Arizona Department of Corrections shows James McKinney. The Supreme Court won't hear Arizona's appeal of a lower court ruling that overturned McKinney's death sentence and opened the door for other death row inmates in the state to challenge their sentences. On Monday, Oct. 3, 2016, the justices let stand the ruling that said Arizona unconstitutionally excluded evidence about McKinney's troubled childhood and post-traumatic stress disorder that might have led to a lesser punishment. McKinney was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death in 1993. (Arizona Department of Corrections via AP)
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CORRECTS PHOTOGRAPHER'S LAST NAME TO BORDALLO FROM BORDELLO - In this Sept. 27, 2016 photo, founder of Guam's "Silent No More" movement Joseph Santos, center, Guam Sen. Frank Blas, Jr., right, and Sen. Frank Aguon, Jr., left, move a sign after addressing a crowd at Veterans Cemetery in Piti, Guam. The U.S. territory of Guam, where almost everyone is Catholic, has been ripped apart by claims the archbishop abused altar boys. Guam’s governor was in tough position when faced with a bill Catholic leaders feared would bring an onslaught of civil lawsuits for child sex abuse allegations and bankrupt the church. He signed it into law even though he, like about 80 percent of the US territory’s population, is Catholic. (AP Photo/Grace Garces Bordallo)
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In this Oct. 2, 2016 photo Kankakee County Sheriff's police Lt. Chad Gessner talks at scene of a homicide first discovered on Sunday afternoon in Pembroke Township, Ill. Police in northeastern Illinois said they're investigating multiple homicides in the township, which happened in less than 36 hours. (Scott Anderson/The Daily Journal via AP)
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FILE - A Monday, Feb. 24, 2003 photo from files showing people passing a jewelry store in the diamond quarter in Antwerp, Belgium. Authorities arrested three Italians and a Dutchwoman in connection with the plundering of 123 maximum-security vaults in the precious gem district the world capital of diamond-cutting, getting away with an estimated $100 million in goods. Kim Kardashian West joined a line of victims of major jewel heists when armed robbers entered her Paris residence, chained her to bathroom furnishings and escaped with jewels worth an estimated $10 million Sunday Oct. 2, 2016. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe, File)
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This photo provided by Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s Office shows Joseph Conway, who authorities are looking for after they said he shot a K-9 that chased after him in Virginia. The incident began Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016, after deputies conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle. The driver was taken into custody without incident, but the passenger, later identified as Conway, exited the car, got into a fight with a deputy and fled the scene. (Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s Office via AP)
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An undated photo provided by the Spotsylvania County, Va., Sheriff's Office shows K-9 Dax. Authorities are looking for a man they say shot Dax after he chased after the man in Virginia. The Spotsylvania County Sheriff's Office says in a news release that 34-year-old Joseph Conway shot the dog Sunday night, Oct. 2, 2016, while attempting to flee from deputies. The K-9 was taken to a veterinary hospital where it was listed in serious condition. (Spotsylvania County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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Defendant Gregory Nisbet, the landlord of a Noyes Street apartment building, listens as defense attorney Matthew Nichols concludes his opening remarks during the first day of a manslaughter trial Monday, Oct. 3, 2016, in Portland, Me. Nisbet was indicted for manslaughter stemming from the November 2014 fire that killed six people in Portland. (Ben McCanna/Portland Press Herald via AP, Pool)
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FILE - In this June 24, 2015 file photo, American TV personality Kim Kardashian attends the Cannes Lions 2015, International Advertising Festival in Cannes, southern France. Armed robbers forced their way into a private Paris residence where Kardashian West was staying, and stole more than $10 million worth of jewelry, police officials said Monday, Oct. 3, 2016. They said five assailants, who are still at large, stole a jewelry box containing valuables worth 6 million euros ($6.7 million) as well as a ring worth 4 million euros ($4.5 million). (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)
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In this June 24, 2015 file photo, American TV personality Kim Kardashian attends the Cannes Lions 2015, International Advertising Festival in Cannes, southern France. Armed robbers forced their way into a private Paris residence where Kardashian West was staying, and stole more than $10 million worth of jewelry, police officials said Monday, Oct. 3, 2016. They said five assailants, who are still at large, stole a jewelry box containing valuables worth 6 million euros ($6.7 million) as well as a ring worth 4 million euros ($4.5 million). (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)
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FILE – In this November 2005 file photo, Larry Greene, public information director of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, demonstrates how a curtain is pulled between the death chamber and witness room at the prison in Lucasville, Ohio. Ohio plans to resume executions in January 2017 with a new three-drug combination, an attorney representing the state told a federal judge Monday, Oct. 3, 2016. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)
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Scott Smith, of Mt. Vernon, New York is seen in a booking photo provided by the Baltimore Police Department. Smith is one of two men charged with first- and second-degree assault after a fight during a Baltimore Ravens game on Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. Joseph Bauer, a Maryland man, is in critical condition after suffering a head injury during a fight with Oakland Raiders fans Smith and Andrew Nappi, of Eastchester, New York during a Baltimore Ravens game. Susan Bauer says her brother is on life support and doctors have told the family he had a 30 percent chance of survival. (Baltimore Police Department via AP)