Best of the States

Beth Walters, left, and Stephen Craig, both clowns with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus talk during the clowns' final group breakfast, Thursday, May 4, 2017, in Providence, R.I. "The Greatest Show on Earth" is about to put on its last show on earth. For the performers who travel with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, its demise means the end of a unique way of life for hundreds of performers and crew members. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

In this Wednesday, May 3, 2017 photo, Baltimore Orioles outfielder Adam Jones prepares to bat against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park in Boston, May 3, 2017, two days after Jones was targeted with racial slurs at Fenway. The teams play the final game of their series, one filled with player ejections and fan controversies, at Fenway Park on Thursday evening. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

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, November 2005. Ohio is one of several states that have used midazolam as part of an execution by lethal injection. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)

Media witnesses, including AP Oklahoma City reporter Sean Murphy, center, speak early Friday morning, April 21, 2017, about the overnight execution of Ledell Lee in Varner, Ark. At left is John Moritz of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, with Marine Glisovic of KATV, right. Lee was the first inmate put to death in Arkansas since 2005. (AP Photo/Kelly P. Kissel)

U.S. District Court Judge Patricia Minaldi speaks during an Empowering Women Luncheon in Sulphur, La., in 2013. Minaldi, whose unusual behavior on the bench preceded her mysterious removal from a string of cases, was ordered to get treatment for alcoholism so severe a colleague believed she could not care of herself, according to court records released April 13, 2017. (Marilyn Monroe/American Press via AP)

Crews work around damaged tanker cars on May 1, 2014, along the tracks where several CSX tanker cars carrying crude oil derailed and caught fire along the James River near downtown Lynchburg, Va. Inspectors have found almost 24,000 safety defects over a two-year period along United States railroad routes used to ship volatile crude oil. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Bill Baroni, left, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's former top appointee at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Sept. 7, 2016, and Bridget Kelly, Christie's former deputy chief of staff Bridget Kelly, March 29, 2017. Prosecutors said both lied on the stand. (AP photos/Mel Evans, Seth Wenig)

A drain pipe sticks out of a coal ash retention pond at Dominion's Possum Point Power Station in Dumfries, Va., June 26, 2015. The company was moving coal ash from several ponds to one lined pond. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Gov. Rick Scott makes the state of the state address to the joint session of the legislature, Tuesday, March 7, 2017, in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Steve Cannon)

Dr. Erin Kimmerle, center, works with investigators as they examine the remains of an unidentified 1985 female homicide victim after the body was exhumed from a unmarked grave in Tampa, Fla., Sept. 15, 2016. Kimmerle knows locating the killer is a long shot. But if she throws enough science at the case, she feels she may identify the body and find relatives. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., center, stands with Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore., right, and House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., left, during a news conference on the American Health Care Act on Capitol Hill, March 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)