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In this Dec. 21, 2016 photo, family physician Leslie Hayes begins her workday at the El Centro Family Health medical clinic in Espanola, N.M. Hayes credits her ability to effectively treat opioid addiction disorders to a training and mentoring program known as Project ECHO that is being tapped by federal officials for possible broader applications. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)
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In this Dec. 21, 2016 photo, family physician Leslie Hayes listens for a fetal heartbeat while attending to a 40-year-old mother (right, obscured) who is being treated for an addiction to heroin with the anti-craving medication Subutext, at the El Centro Family Health medical clinic in Espanola, N.M. Hayes credits her ability to effectively treat opioid addiction disorders to a training and mentoring program known as Project ECHO that is being tapped by federal officials for possible broader applications. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)
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In this Dec. 21, 2016 photo, family physician Leslie Hayes attends to a 31-year-old mother (right, partially obscured) who is being treated for an addiction to heroin with the anti-craving medication Subutext, at the El Centro Family Health medical clinic in Espanola, N.M. Hayes credits her ability to effectively treat opioid addiction disorders to a training and mentoring program known as Project ECHO that is being tapped by federal officials for possible broader applications. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)
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FILE - In this Feb. 22, 2016 file photo, Dr. Willie Parker stands in a procedure room for a portrait at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)
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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS - In this Jan. 19, 2016 photograph, a line of Mississippi state flags wave in the breeze as they are displayed by Sons of Confederate Veterans and other groups on the grounds of the state Capitol in Jackson, Miss. Disputes continue over the Confederate battle emblem on the Mississippi flag, which critics see as a reminder of slavery and segregation and supporters see as a symbol of history and heritage. The continued fight over the flag is one of Mississippi's biggest stories for 2016. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS - In this April 4, 2016 photograph, protestors call for Mississippi Republican Gov. Phil Bryant to veto House Bill 1523, which they say is discriminatory against LGBT people, during a rally outside the Governor's Mansion in Jackson, Miss. The law would have allowed people to cite three specific beliefs to deny services to others: That marriage should only be between a man and a woman, that sex should only take place inside such a marriage and that a person's gender is determined at birth. U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves' banned the law from taking effect in June. The issues attracted much attention making it a 2016 big story. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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Cory Rogers works at Linen Works in Longview, Wash. For 15 hours a week, Rogers, 46, steams, folds and launders linens at Linen Works, which rents out linens throughout the community. Rogers, who has a developmental disability, has had his job for almost four years. (Bill Wagner/The Daily News via AP)
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Cory Rogers works at Linen Works in Longview, Wash. For 15 hours a week, Rogers, 46, steams, folds and launders linens at Linen Works, which rents out linens throughout the community. Rogers, who has a developmental disability, has had his job for almost four years. (Bill Wagner/The Daily News via AP)
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Curtis Evermore poses for a photo Longview, Wash. Everman, 59, has developmental disabilities and gets help finding employment from Life Works, a Longview-based social services organization that supports people with mental and physical disabilities. (Bill Wagner/The Daily News via AP)
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Guests are seen leaving the Rio Hotel & Casino after reports of smoke coming from the 21st floor led to guests being evacuated Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016, in Las Vegas. The Rio scrambled to find alternate lodging for guests Thursday after a power outage led to the evacuation of 900 rooms just before the busy New Year’s Eve weekend, officials said. Nobody was injured, but emergency responders helped some guests with disabilities get to the bottom of the tower. (Yasmina Chavez/Las Vegas Sun via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR SATURDAY, DEC. 31, 2016 - In this undated photo Jim "Dagger" Dagostine, a biker who organizes a toy drive every year to deliver to the Salvation Army, stands outside of the Salvation Army in Charleston, W.Va. (Sam Owens/Charleston Gazette-Mail via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR SATURDAY, DEC. 31, 2016 - This undated photo shows donated toys which have been collected to be given to children for Christmas at the Salvation Army in Charleston, W.Va. For the past 30 years, Jim "Dagger" Dagostine has organized Dagger's Annual Toy Run — a toy collection drive and fundraiser to benefit the Salvation Army. (Sam Owens/Charleston Gazette-Mail via AP)
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Helen Hunt started dating actor Hank Azaria in 1994 and they married in 1999, only to divorce 17 months later.
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Ethel Merman's fourth and final marriage was to actor Ernest Borgnine. They were married in Beverly Hills on June 27, 1964. They separated on August 7 and Borgnine filed for divorce on October 21. Merman filed a cross-complaint shortly thereafter charging Borgnine with extreme cruelty. She was granted a divorce on November 18, 1964
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FILE - In this Sunday, July 10, 2016 file photo, a churchgoer cries during a service at the Potter's House in Dallas, that included a memorial to the five Dallas police officers killed the previous week as well as a town hall meeting discuss recent police shootings. A sniper killed the police officers during a protest over shootings of black men by police in Louisiana and Minnesota. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016 file photo, people stand on a hill as smoke and flames rise from amidst tents, after fires were started in the makeshift migrant camp known as "the jungle" near Calais, northern France. Firefighters have doused several dozen fires set by migrants as they left the camp where they had been living. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
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FILE - In this Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016 file photo, Syrian government troops fire at Islamic State group positions near Mahin, Syria. As many as half a million people have been killed since the conflict began in 2011 with peaceful protests against the Assad family's four-decade rule. (Alexander Kots/Komsomolskaya Pravda via AP)
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FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 12, 2011 file photo, Anthony Sowell sits in a courtroom for rape and kidnapping charges in Cleveland. On Friday, Dec. 30, 2016, the Ohio Supreme Court it won’t reconsider the death penalty appeal of Sowell, who killed 11 women and hid the remains in and around his home. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)
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FILE - In this March 31, 2016, file photo, gay-rights supporter Mathew "Skippy" Mauldin holds a flag during a gay rights rally outside the Capitol in Jefferson City, Mo. A Republican Missouri lawmaker says he has a solution to end tense debates over same-sex marriage. Rep. T.J. Berry wants to take government out of marriage and leave it to houses of worship by classifying such legal partnerships as domestic unions. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016 file photo, Bill Cosby leaves after a hearing in his sexual assault case at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa.Cosby is starting 2017 in a legal dragnet that has only tightened around him since his stunning arrest a year ago. Cosby was charged with aggravated sexual assault on Dec. 30, 2015, just days before the 12-year statute of limitations would have run out over a 2004 encounter at his estate near Philadelphia. Some legal experts wonder if Cosby will seek a plea deal after losing a series of defense motions. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)
