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The state-of-the-art surveillance cameras at Pennsylvania State University's Beta Theta Pi fraternity house that captured much of what happened to pledge Timothy Piazza before he died will "unquestionably ... become important evidence" in the cases against fraternity members charged in connection with Piazza's death, said ABC News Chief Legal Analyst Dan Abrams.

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The state-of-the-art surveillance cameras at Pennsylvania State University's Beta Theta Pi fraternity house that captured much of what happened to pledge Timothy Piazza before he died will "unquestionably ... become important evidence" in the cases against fraternity members charged in connection with Piazza's death, said ABC News Chief Legal Analyst Dan Abrams.

Piazza, a 19-year-old sophomore and pledge at Penn State's Beta Theta Pi fraternity, died on Feb. 4, after he fell down the stairs during a pledge ceremony at the house on the night of Feb. 2. Fraternity members did not call 911 until the morning of Feb. 3, about 12 hours after Piazza's fall, according to a report on the grand jury's investigation. Piazza's death "was the direct result of traumatic brain injuries," according to the forensic pathologist.

The eight or nine full-color and full-broadcast-quality cameras at Beta Theta Pi showed that Piazza's skin had turned gray by the morning of the 911 call, Centre County District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller told ABC News. The color change was especially noticeable in the final 40 minutes before the 911 call -- the time period prosecutors call the "cover-up" -- during which the students allegedly wanted to make Piazza appear healthier than he was by trying to dress him in clean clothes, Parks Miller said.

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Abrams said today on "Good Morning America," "The fact there were these surveillance cameras with these very well-defined pictures is unquestionably going to become important evidence in the context of this case. Because it may be able to show exactly what happened, who was where when, the sorts of things that you typically will need eyewitnesses or other evidence to say, 'Wait, I wasn't there,' 'I was there.' If a lot of this is on camera, those questions go away."

Eighteen Penn State students are facing charges: eight for involuntary manslaughter, aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and hazing, among other charges; four for reckless endangerment and hazing, among other charges; and six for evidence tampering. The Beta Theta Pi fraternity -- which has since been barred from Penn State -- is facing charges including involuntary manslaughter and hazing.

Abrams said, "It's really important that we look at these cases individually and not just sort of lump everyone in together."

"It's going to be a prosecution against each one individually," Abrams said. "Each one of them, of course, will have their own attorney defending in their own way.

"When you're talking about involuntarily manslaughter," Abrams added, "which is the big charge against eight of them, you don't have to have shown someone tried to do it, or someone did it on purpose. The question is what was their conduct that led up to it, not what happened after the fact."

The surveillance cameras at Beta Theta Pi documented much of the interactions between fraternity members and Piazza in the 12 hours between the fall and the 911 call. Here is how the night of Feb. 2 and early morning hours of Feb. 3 unfolded at the fraternity house, according to the grand jury report, which cited evidence including surveillance video, testimony and phone records.

While the fall was not caught on video, video at 10:47 p.m. showed Piazza being carried upstairs by four fraternity brothers; in the video, his body appeared limp, his eyes were closed, he appeared unconscious, and a bruise was visible on his side. Piazza was placed on a couch, and liquid was dumped on his face twice, but he didn't respond either time.

About a half an hour after the fall, at 11:14 p.m., a newly initiated member saw Piazza lying on the couch, looking "horrible," he later told the grand jury. He saw Piazza "thrashing and making weird movements on the couch" and screamed at the fraternity brothers for help, stressing that Piazza needed to go to the hospital because he could have a concussion. One brother shoved the newly initiated member into a wall and said they had it under control.

At 11:25 p.m., the pledge master slapped Piazza three times in the face. At 11:37 p.m., one fraternity brother tackled another brother into the couch, physically landing on top of Piazza.

By 1 a.m., some brothers saw Piazza vomit and twitch on the couch. Three brothers filled a backpack with books and placed it on Piazza to try to keep him from rolling to his back if he passed out. At 1:48 a.m., Piazza rolled off the couch and to the floor, and three brothers picked him up and "slammed him onto the couch." One brother hit Piazza hard once in the abdomen.

By 2:38 a.m., Piazza rolled to the floor and at 3:16 p.m. his legs were moving. At 3:22 p.m., Piazza tried to stand and the backpack came off and he fell back, hitting his head on the hardwood floor. A fraternity brother attempted to shake him for a moment and then left the room.

At 3:46 a.m., Piazza was curled up on the floor in the fetal position with his knees toward his chest. At 3:49 a.m., Piazza positioned himself on his knees, bent over with his elbows on the floor and his head in his hands. At 3:54 a.m., he tried to stand but fell face down on the floor. At 4:59 a.m., he stood and then fell head first into an iron railing, landing on a stone floor.

"He gets up again and attempts to go to the front door, but before he reaches it he falls head first into the door," the grand jury report says. He later rolled to his side, clutching his abdomen.

At 5:15 a.m., one brother came into the room, stepped over the injured pledge, looked at him and then left the room. At 5:26 a.m., another brother saw Piazza on the floor and walked him to another room but Piazza fell down three steps, and the brother stepped over him on the floor and left him there.

At about 10 a.m., fraternity members found the 19-year-old in the basement lying on his back, breathing heavily and with blood on his face. One brother said Piazza's eyes were half open and he felt cold. Three men carried Piazza's unconscious body upstairs and placed him back on the couch. Surveillance footage showed brothers shaking him and trying to prop him up. At 10:48 a.m., a fraternity member called 911 but did not say Piazza fell down the stairs the night before.

The grand jury concluded that after Piazza was taken to the hospital there was an active attempt to conceal evidence of the hazing and underage drinking, from deleting messages to admitting to discussing erasing surveillance video.

In a deleted text that was recovered, one man wrote, "If need be, just tell them what I told you guys, found him behind [a bar] the next morning at around 10 a.m., and he was freezing-cold, but we decided to call 911 instantly, because the kid's health was paramount."

The grand jury found evidence of a history of hazing at the fraternity that included forced drinking and paddling, and found that Penn State's Greek community "nurtured an environment so permissive of excessive drinking and hazing that it emboldened its members to repeatedly act with reckless disregard to human life."

The grand jury concluded that Piazza's death wasn't the result of isolated conduct or a simple mistake but as a "direct result of the extremely reckless conduct of members of the Beta Fraternity who operated within the permissive atmosphere fostered" by Penn State's Interfraternity Council.

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All defendants have been preliminary arraigned but none have entered pleas.

Defense attorney William Brennan, whose client is facing one count of reckless endangerment, told ABC News Tuesday, "I take this as seriously as if it were first-degree felony."

"The facts of this case are troubling and tragic and we'll do everything we can to defend this charge," he said. "I empathize with the family of the deceased, I empathize with the family of those who are charged.

"My client has -- and this is not to be misinterpreted as acceptance of responsibility or admitting culpability -- my client has tremendous human compassion and empathy for the family of the deceased, for the deceased himself. This was an unspeakable tragedy," Brennan added. "Having said that, it is my position that there is no criminality on the part of my client.

"It's heartbreaking. If this case doesn't draw emotion and tug on your heart strings or bring a tear to your eye, you're inhuman," he said. "I commend the DA office in the pragmatic way that they handled the charging process here because hundreds of people were at the frat house.

"I would encourage people to remember that our system of jurisprudence provides a scenario where you're innocent until you're proven guilty," he continued. "My client, while presumed innocent and proclaiming innocence, has tremendous compassion for the deceased and his family."

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Piazza family attorney Tom Kline called the surveillance video "gruesome" and said it showed "conduct which is reprehensible. Beyond human decency." Kline called this the "worst possible debauchery and depravity that you could possibly have anywhere, let alone a college campus."

Kline said the Piazza family is "committed to full justice. The Piazzas are committed not only to punishment but to deterrence. They want to make sure that this never happens again at Penn State or at any American college campus."

Penn State President Eric Barron in a statement Friday said, "The alleged details in the grand jury presentment, which suggest the inhumane treatment of a student forced through hazing to consume dangerous amounts of alcohol and endure hours of suffering, are sickening and difficult to understand."

"It should go without saying that hazing and dangerous drinking are not permitted by the University, and the University takes appropriate action to educate its students about these issues and to hold them accountable whenever it learns of such wrongdoing," Barron said.

Beta Theta Pi International Fraternity said in a statement, "The nature of those charges are incredibly disheartening as the organization and its membership continue to grieve Tim's passing and the pain experienced by his family."

Beta Theta Pi said that since Piazza's death "the International Fraternity has cooperated fully with local officials in their investigation. The early findings of that investigation indicated that the behavior of several undergraduate members was in direct contradiction of the International Fraternity's expectations and risk management policies, as well as the International Fraternity's reputation and commitment to character development."

"Beta Theta Pi International Fraternity has clearly and consistently expressed its position that it does not tolerate hazing or alcohol abuse in any form by its members. The former undergraduate members were well educated by the International Fraternity and Penn State on these policies; however, they are entitled to the presumption of innocence as they face these charges," the statement said. "The International Fraternity stands by its decision to suspend and disband the former chapter on February 17, 2017. The International Fraternity's policy that prohibited alcohol in the Penn State chapter house, along with the extensive annual investment in risk management, leadership and character-development programs that teach young men the importance of integrity and caring for others, underscored the International Fraternity's expectations of all of its members."

In a statement, the Penn State Interfraternity Council said its focus is "leading the change Penn State needs to prevent a senseless tragedy like this from happening in the future."

"We are committed to addressing the critical issues in our fraternity community head on," the statement said. "We have formed stakeholder working groups tasked with developing increased community standards and enhancing student safety. The best way to shift culture is for students, alumni and the university to work together."

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The state-of-the-art surveillance cameras at Pennsylvania State University's Beta Theta Pi fraternity house that captured much of what happened to pledge Timothy Piazza before he died will "unquestionably ... become important evidence" in the cases against fraternity members charged in connection with Piazza's death, said ABC News Chief Legal Analyst Dan Abrams. Piazza, a 19-year-old sophomore and pledge at Penn State's Beta Theta Pi fraternity, died on Feb.

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Washington (CNN)A reeling White House has no obvious path out of one of the most intense self-imposed crises in modern political history, as the shockwaves of President Donald Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey intensify.

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Six days on, the administration is dealing with damaging consequences of that decision. The White House staff faces a credibility crisis following their shifting explanations for Comey's dismissal. Republican leaders in Congress are dealing with another unwelcome controversy ignited by their President. And Democrats are on offense, sensing an opening ahead of midterm elections next year.

It's nothing new that Trump is unleashing disruption and discord -- that's been his style all along.

But Comey's dismissal during his investigation into Trump's campaign over alleged links to Russian election meddling took the sense of political dislocation in the capital to new extremes.

Trump is suddenly fighting off accusations that he abused his power and even put himself in legal and constitutional jeopardy, with his Republican allies under fire for not doing more to rein him in.

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper leveled a striking charge on Sunday, telling CNN's Jake Tapper that he thinks US institutions are under assault from Trump.

"The founding fathers, in their genius, created a system of three co-equal branches of government and a built-in system of checks and balances," Clapper said on "State of the Union."

"I feel as though that is under assault and is eroding."

The White House's current political woes are a direct result of Trump's own actions, and he is showing no sign of changing his approach.

Frustrated, angry and preoccupied by the trajectory of his presidency, Trump is staying true to his instincts, lashing out and trying pursue his own unpredictable course.

"It's the outsiders who change the world and who make a real and lasting difference," Trump said at a commencement address Saturday.

"The more that a broken system tells you that you're wrong, the more certain you should be that you must keep pushing ahead, you must keep pushing forward."

Searching for Comey's replacement

Trump's suggestion Friday that there may be "tapes" of his conversations with Comey further exacerbated the sense of crisis gripping Washington.

In the short term, the furor is complicating his search for a new FBI chief, one he told reporters Saturday he hopes to finish this week.

The President must find someone who has the confidence of the bureau's rank and file, is willing to serve under intense political pressure from his own White House and can win Senate confirmation.

The West Wing staff must negotiate this daunting assignment with their own fates in question, amid rampant rumors of a major personnel shakeup after Trump sabotaged efforts of his own team to explain the Comey firing.

At least six candidates headed to the Justice Department on Saturday, including former Assistant Attorney General Alice Fisher, special agent Adam Lee, acting Director Andrew McCabe, Sen. John Cornyn of Texas and judges Michael Garcia and Henry Hudson.

But former CIA Director James Woolsey told CNN's Fareed Zakaria that it will be tough finding someone willing to serve.

"I think it's going to be very hard to find a good FBI director who is willing to operate under the circumstances that we've seen this week," Woolsey said in an interview Sunday.

Democrats, meanwhile, offered a glimpse of the campaign they are preparing to wage to complicate Trump's search for a replacement.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Sunday that the Senate should refuse to confirm a new FBI director until the Justice Department appoints a special prosecutor to probe allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Schumer also insisted the the nominee should not be a "partisan politician" and should be willing to stand up to White House pressure.

But he admitted that Democrats would need help in imposing meaningful constraints on Trump's search.

"The key here, of course, is getting some of our Republican colleagues to join us," Schumer told CNN's Tapper on "State of the Union."

One of those colleagues is South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, who on Sunday criticized the White House for first claiming that Comey was fired over his handling of the Hillary Clinton email saga before Trump told NBC Friday that he ousted the FBI chief over the Russian investigation

"The President has a chance to clean up the mess that he mostly created," Graham said. "He really, I think, did his staff a disservice by changing the explanation."

Graham also said that if any tapes exist, Trump needs to turn them over, and added that the situation demands that senators take further steps.

"I think it requires somebody like me, a Republican, to call Comey before the (Senate) Judiciary Committee," he said, adding that Trump should "back off" from commenting or tweeting about the investigation.

Graham is not alone among Republicans in expressing concern. But so far, the most important figures -- Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan -- are resisting demands for a special prosecutor or congressional committee to probe alleged Trump campaign ties with Moscow.

Clouds over Trump's first foreign trip

Given the political storm that raged over the weekend, it is difficult to see how the White House could reset the political mood. But Trump's crucial first foreign trip, which begins when he heads for Saudi Arabia Friday, will give him a chance to try to change the subject.

The four-nation journey was already a daunting assignment: It marks the first venture abroad for a commander in chief who lacks any diplomatic experience and is viewed with great uncertainty by many US allies.

Trump will meet the leaders of the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Colombia in Washington this week before heading to Saudi Arabia, Israel, Italy and Belgium.

"This trip is truly historic. No president has ever visited the homelands and holy sites of the Jewish, Christian and Muslim faiths all on one trip," said National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, briefing reporters on Friday.

"What President Trump is seeking is to unite peoples of all faiths around a common vision of peace, progress and prosperity. He will bring a message of tolerance and of hope to billions, including to millions of Americans who profess these faiths. The President will focus on what unites us," he said.

Given the events of the previous days, McMaster's message seemed incongruous, as he portrayed a President who had just ignited discord at home as a unifying force abroad.

But at times, McMaster, in a stentorian performance, almost seemed to be willing the administration onto better political ground with the strength of his rhetoric. Administration officials may hope that by getting Trump out of Washington for a week or more, they may help cool the political storm raging around the White House.

McMaster's prominent role may be a message to allies abroad, following reports in Washington last week that Trump was tiring of him. Diplomats from a number of foreign nations have said that they view McMaster and other prominent administration foreign policy hands -- including Defense Secretary James Mattis -- as a source of stability and continuity even amid the wild swings of Trump's leadership.

But if the White House hopes that a trip abroad can cure its problems, it could be in for a shock. Foreign tours, with their jet-lag, tedious diplomatic summits and intense media glare, impose their own demands on a President, especially one as inexperienced as Trump.

With that in mind, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates suggested Sunday on CBS News' "Face the Nation" that the President should drop the unpredictable, improvisational approach overseas that has led him into such controversy at home.

"I think when it comes to the issues," Gates said. "I'd advise him to stick to the script."

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Six days on, the administration is dealing with damaging consequences of that decision. The White House staff faces a credibility crisis following their shifting explanations for Comey's dismissal. Republican leaders in Congress are dealing with another unwelcome controversy ignited by their President. And Democrats are on offense, sensing an opening ahead of midterm elections next year.

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The attack has hit at least 150 countries since Friday and infected 200,000 machines, according to the European law enforcement agency Europol.

The WannaCry worm locks users out of their computers and demands that victims pay hundreds of dollars to regain control of their information.

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North Korea's missile test on Sunday highlights the country's frantic efforts to accelerate its nuclear weapons program while political uncertainty has gripped the United States and South Korea, analysts said.

"They see an opportunity to race ahead and get as much nuclear weapons capability in place as possible," David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, said Sunday.

North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency claimed the missile was a "new ground-to-ground medium long-range strategic ballistic rocket" that's "capable of carrying a large-size heavy nuclear warhead."

The missile test comes only days after a new president, Moon Jae-in, assumed the presidency of South Korea. It is the seventh missile launch this year as a new administration establishes itself in Washington.

Moon expressed "deep regret" over the North's missile, which flew for about 30 minutes before dropping into the Sea of Japan.

The White House also criticized the launch. "North Korea has been a flagrant menace for far too long," the White House said in a statement. "The United States maintains our ironclad commitment to stand with our allies in the face of the serious threat posed by North Korea."

It's not unusual for a new administration in Washington to be tested by foreign rivals in the early months of the presidency. Trump has been forced to deal with a string of provocative actions from North Korea.

The administration has vacillated somewhat in its message toward North Korea as it has attempted to build international momentum for dealing with the rogue nation. Trump has said he would be "honored" to meet with Kim Jong Un, the unstable leader of North Korea, under the "right circumstances."

The administration has also threatened to take action to halt North Korea's growing nuclear weapons program.

The Trump administration's efforts were further complicated with the election of Moon, who had called for dialogue with the North and wants to avoid confrontation. Moon's administration is the first liberal government in South Korea in almost a decade.

"The challenge for the Trump administration is how do you get momentum to clamp down right away," Albright said.

The Trump administration has said pressure from China, a key trading partner with North Korea, is key to getting Kim to back off his country's nuclear program.

But China may be able to use Moon's call for reconciliation as an excuse for not confronting Kim, Albright said.

North Korea has ramped up its nuclear activity since the inauguration of Trump.

Only weeks after he was inaugurated North Korea launched a previously unknown missile. Shortly after that North Korean agents allegedly killed Kim's half brother in Malaysia.

The Trump administration has responded with warnings and has taken actions designed to warn North Korea not to test the new administration's patience.

In March, the United States delivered its THAAD missile-defense system to South Korea, despite China's strong objections. Last month a U.S. carrier battle group arrived in Korean waters.

The north's continuous missile tests are not only a symbolic act of defiance. The tests are critical steps in the country's efforts to build a missile capable of targeting the United States.

"The only way to develop a missile is to test it," Albright said. Any progress in the program is deeply worrying for the United States and its allies.

North Korea has accumulated a stockpile of 13 to 30 nuclear weapons, according to the Institute for Science and International Security. The country is building between three and five nuclear weapons a year, the organization estimates.

North Korea's state media remained defiant, according to commentary quoted by the Associated Press. "The United States should never expect us to give up our nuclear capability," the main Rodong newspaper said in a commentary carried by the Korean Central News Agency.

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North Korea's missile test on Sunday highlights the country's frantic efforts to accelerate its nuclear weapons program while political uncertainty has gripped the United States and South Korea, analysts said. "They see an opportunity to race ahead and get as much nuclear weapons capability in place as possible," David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, said Sunday.

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High-rise apartment fire in Pittsburgh leaves 1 woman dead

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An early morning high-rise apartment fire in downtown Pittsburgh has left one woman dead, and two residents and two firefighters needing treatment from medical crews. Officials say arson and homicide investigators are on the scene.

Fire Chief Darryl Jones offered no details on the woman who died at Midtown Towers, a 17-story building that houses apartments on its upper floors and a convenience store on its ground floor.

Jones says more than 100 residents had to be evacuated from the building, most of them elderly and some of whom use oxygen.

The fire was reported in a unit on the sixth floor just after 3 a.m. Crews were mopping up by dawn.

The two firefighters and two residents were treated for smoke-related breathing problems.

The cause of the fire isn't immediately known.

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north Korea is testing missiles, direct threat to US

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Happy Mother’s Day To The Number 1 Mother of Gaming Consoles

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White House tries to move on after Comey.

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A reeling White House struggles to find a path forward as the shockwaves of President Trump firing of former FBI Director James Comey intensify. CNN's Joe Johns reports.

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Police in Franklin will resume their search for a 20-year-old man reported missing after he failed to return home following a house party early Sunday morning.

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What numbers will be most important to the Wizards in Game 7?

Scoring against Al Horford, stopping shots off the drive and other factors will be vital to Washington's attempt to win Game 7 on the road.

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dino found in ocean, weighing 3000 lbs

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No, it's not the plotline of a summer blockbuster. It's science: breathtaking, take-you-back-in-time science.

Meet nodosaur, the crown jewel of a newly opened dinosaur exhibit at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Alberta, Canada.

What makes the nodosaur staggeringly unique isn't its size (we get it; dinosaurs were big), but its almost unprecedented state of preservation.

Considering the nodosaur is roughly 110 million years old, the sleeping giant you see when you look at it is astounding. For one thing, you don't see bones; most of the skeleton is undetectable because it's covered in fossilized skin and, as the museum describes it, "encased in intact body armour."

Nodosaurs were herbivores who walked on four legs and were covered in tank-like armor and dotted with spikes for protection, according to the Smithsonian Natural History Museum.

This nodosaur is a new species and a new genus. Museum experts say it is the oldest known dinosaur from Alberta and the most well-preserved of the armored dinosaurs ever unearthed.

The museum worked in tandem with the National Geographic Society in researching the new nodosaur, which is featured in the June issue of National Geographic magazine.

The nodosaur was found in 2011. An unsuspecting excavator operator uncovered the historic discovery while digging in an oil sands mine, according to the museum's news release about the exhibit. Six years and 7,000 painstaking reconstruction hours later, and the nodosaur was ready to meet the public.

National Geographic says the mummified nodosaur weighs 2,500 pounds, not far off its 3,000-pound fighting weight estimated by experts. Scientists think this nodosaur may have been swept away by a flooded river and carried out to sea, where it eventually sank. Over millions of years on the ocean floor, minerals took the place of the dinosaur's armor and skin, preserving it in the lifelike form now on display, according to National Geographic.

A similarly horned species of dinosaur was recently identified at a Museum in Toronto. That cousin fossil, originally found in Montana, also contained soft tissue such as scales and parts of horn, but that dinosaur's remains are nowhere near as lifelike as the Alberta nodosaur.

The new nodosaur exhibit opened to the public this week.

CNN's Lyric Lewin contributed to this report.

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Suffered Fractured Vertebra During Fiery Crash

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NASCAR driver compression fracture to the T5 vertebra following a crash at Saturday's Go Bowling 400 at Kansas Speedway, according to Aric Almirola was released from the hospital on Sunday after sustaining a Bob Pockrass of ESPN.com.

Almirola was involved in a scary crash with Danica Patrick and Joey Logano that resulted in Almirola being to taken off the track on a stretcher. Fox Sports shared the incident:

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"That's the last thing you want to see, a big hit like that for anyone," Logano said after the crash, per Pockrass. "It's unfortunate for everyone. ... Everything was fine and then [my car] just took a hard right."

He was airlifted to the University of Kansas Medical Center on Saturday night.

"Almirola is mobile and will follow-up with his doctors in Charlotte," Richard Petty Motorsports said in a statement.

He is flying back to North Carolina on Sunday, and his timetable for recovery is unclear.

Stewart-Haas Racing wished for a fast return to action:

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Hoping for a full and speedy recovery for @aric_almirola. 🙏
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The crash took place following a restart on Lap 199. Logano's right-front brake rotor appeared to explode, per Tom Jensen of Fox Sports, sending him into Patrick's car. The pair crashed into the wall, and Almirola had too much speed to avoid the accident, ramming into Logano and nearly going completely airborne.

After a long delay, Martin Truex Jr. went on to win Saturday's race.

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The family of Timothy Piazza, the 19-year-old Penn State University fraternity pledge who died after a night of alleged drinking and hazing, plans to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the university as well as fraternity members and the fraternity, Beta Theta Pi.

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Police in Franklin will resume their search for a 20-year-old man reported missing after he failed to return home following a house party early Sunday morning.

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Drake Crashes His Cousin's Prom

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Chelsea wins the English Premier League

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Chelsea manager Antonio Conte has had the golden touch in his first season in the English Premier League, all the way through to the title-clinching game.

With Chelsea scoreless at West Bromwich Albion on Friday and looking like squandering the first of three opportunities to regain the trophy, Conte took the bold decision to remove star winger Eden Hazard and introduce substitute Michy Batshuayi, a player with just one goal to his name all season.

Within six minutes, Batshuayi was poking home a close-range finish and getting mobbed by teammates in front of Chelsea's jubilant visiting fans.

It sealed a 1-0 win at The Hawthorns and Batshuayi had just won the league for Chelsea. He later referred to himself as an "unexpected hero" in a Twitter post.

"The beauty of football," Chelsea midfielder Cesc Fabregas said, "a player who didn't play a lot scores the winning goal for the championship."

Batshuayi's 82nd-minute strike was only his second league goal, and first since August, in a tough first season in England.

As for Conte, it couldn't have gone any better.

The Italian became the fourth manager - after Jose Mourinho, Carlo Ancelotti and Manuel Pellegrini - to win the Premier League in his first season in English soccer, and he was thrown in the air by his celebrating players in joyous scenes after the final whistle.

His moves in the transfer market, his tactical switches, and his late substitutions have all come off. He has now won four straight domestic league titles, taking in three in a row with Juventus from 2012-14 before a spell in charge with Itay.

"Michy paid me a lot with this change," Conte said. "It was great. It wasn't easy for me to arrive in England "and try different habits, a different language and inherit players after a bad season."

But he's taken it all in his stride.

Chelsea's players have gone from being champions in 2015, to finishing in 10th place in 2016 following the worst-ever Premier League title defense, to being champions again.

"People have written us off as a team and individually," Chelsea defender Gary Cahill said, "and this has shut them up."

Chelsea - the league leader since early November - has won 28 of its 36 games, including nine of its last 11 matches, to resist a late title challenge by Tottenham. Second-placed Spurs are 10 points behind Chelsea with three games remaining.

It could get even better for Conte's team, which has also reached the final of the FA Cup where it will play Arsenal at Wembley Stadium on May 27.

For now, Conte will savor winning the Premier League. After long celebrations on the field, Conte returned to the dressing room and was showered first by a large tub of water and then by a bottle of champagne poured by a semi-naked Diego Costa.

The end of the evening was in stark contrast to the start, as a stubborn West Brom defended deep and in numbers and frustrated Chelsea.

Just after the hour mark, Hazard cut inside and drove in a wild shot that went out for a throw-in. It encapsulated the game for Chelsea, only for Batshuayi to intervene following his 76th-minute introduction.

Cahill's mishit shot was so badly struck that it spun out to the right wing, where Cesar Azpilicueta collected the ball and got to the byline before sending in a low cross. Batshuayi was the most alert, diverting the ball past goalkeeper Ben Foster with his left foot.

Conte jumped into the arms of his fellow coaches near the dugout. Chelsea goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois sprinted over to join in the big huddle.

"These are moments you need to cherish," Cahill said. "I can't wait to get my hands on that trophy."

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Steve Douglas is at www.twitter.com/sdouglas80

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OAKLAND, Calif. - The Golden State Warriors tried their hardest to drop Game 1 of the Western Conference finals on Sunday. They racked up more turnovers than assists at the midway point. The coaching staff refused to use their Death Star lineup. Andre Iguodala played 10 total minutes. Klay Thompson made two shots. They spotted the Spurs a 25-point lead.

But Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant wouldn't let the Warriors die. Almost singlehandedly, the Warriors' two MVPs brought the Warriors back from the brink and led the Warriors to their ninth straight win of the playoffs by overcoming what should've been an insurmountable deficit.

The Spurs had no business losing this game and they lost, but it's not their fault that they did. They led by 20 points at halftime because their defense rendered the Warriors' offense useless. Kawhi Leonard was in MVP form, contributing 26 points and playing stifling defense in 24 minutes of action. The Spurs, with Leonard on the court, where substantially better than a sloppy Warriors team.

The game undoubtedly turned when Leonard left midway through the third quarter after suffering a second knock to his ankle. He didn't return. Immediately after that injury, the Warriors embarked upon an 18-0 run. If Leonard doesn't land awkwardly on his teammates on the bench and Zaza Pachulia, the Spurs likely walk away with a Game 1 win.

That can't be denied.

But the Spurs' valiant effort after Leonard's injury still should've been enough to win. Heck, it would've been enough to topple every other team in the NBA that doesn't have Curry and Durant. Unfortunately for the Spurs, the Warriors have Curry and Durant.

That's not intended to be an insult directed at the Spurs. It's supposed to be a compliment. They really did deserve to win the game. After they recovered from the shock of losing Leonard, they battled right back at the Warriors, extending their lead to nine by the end of the third quarter and pushing it up to 11 to begin the fourth. Most teams fold when the Warriors hit them with one of their patented super strikes. The Spurs absorbed the Warriors' run and hit right back -- without their best player on the floor. That takes skill, courage, and good coaching.

And it should've been enough. It wasn't because of Curry and Durant. The Warriors overcame the deficit by letting their two best players operate in isolation and hoping their shots fell.

Their shots fell. Curry and Durant combined to score 74 of the Warriors' 113 points on 53-percent shooting. Meanwhile, as our Matt Moore pointed out, no other Warrior made more than four field goals. Thompson finished with six points. Draymond Green scored nine. Golden State's third-leading scorer was Pachulia, who totaled 11 points. So, it truly was a two-man effort.

"Steph got us going in the third," Durant said. "I tried to do my part in fourth. And we finished it off."

In that third quarter, even before Leonard went down, Curry exploded. He made his first three 3s, scoring 11 points in the first 3:15 of the third quarter. The Spurs kept hitting back, which is why their lead held firm, but it's worth wondering: If Curry doesn't connect on those shots at the onset of the quarter, how many points are the Warriors trailing by when Leonard goes down? At that point, the game might've already been out of reach.

Down the stretch in the fourth, it was primarily Durant who took over. His 3-pointer trimmed the lead to three. After a Spurs bucket, his pull-up cut it back to three again. His funky, lucky, and possibly illegal layup gave the Warriors a 101-100 lead with just over four minutes left to play.

Then it was Curry's turn. With less than two minutes remaining, the Spurs led by three -- told you they were resilient. But the Warriors knotted it up thanks to two offensive boards, which led to an open Curry 3. After missing his first 3 of the possession, which preceded a missed 3 by Durant, Curry buried the tying shot. In the final seconds, Curry banged in a runner to give the Warriors' a three-point lead, which ended up being the decisive bucket in a two-point game.

What this Warriors' win highlights is how difficult they are to beat even when they're bad. And man, were the Warriors at their worst for most of Sunday. They were a mess on both ends. Green had one of his worst passing performances of the season. The Warriors surrendered countless and-ones. They couldn't finish at the rim. The substitution patterns were suspect, as Mike Brown seemingly refused to go to his Death Star small lineup. And they still won, because their roster boasts the necessary individual talent to survive the games in which they don't play beautiful basketball.

The Warriors often like to emphasize ball movement and assists. They love to point out how much their second-unit contributes, specifically at the beginning of the second and fourth quarters. Their motto, of course, is #StrengthInNumbers. But that wasn't how they won. Even when they exploded, the Warriors offense was essentially reduced to letting their stars do their own thing alone.

"We have our identity predicated on the collective, the ball movement, player movement, using everybody's talents on the floor to create great shots," Curry said. "When you're in situations where there isn't any flow and you have to make plays, you know, that's what we're expected to do."

They captured Game 1 because Curry and Durant are great basketball players even when the basketball players around them aren't good. Curry and Durant's individual greatness bailed them out -- on and on until the Warriors won and the Spurs' chances were spent.

Before the game, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich ended his press conference by saying, "Somebody's going to win, somebody's going to lose. I just hope somebody doesn't get their butt kicked."

Popovich ended up getting his wish. For that, he can thank Curry and Durant, both of whom brought a lifeless team back from a butt-kicking and turned a blowout loss into an all-time win.

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OAKLAND, Calif. - The Golden State Warriors tried their hardest to drop Game 1 of the Western Conference finals on Sunday. They racked up more turnovers than assists at the midway point. The coaching staff refused to use their Death Star lineup. Andre Iguodala played 10 total minutes.

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In a Mexico prison, a tunnel has been found that has had stored drugs, and other narcotics.

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A tunnel has been discovered in a Mexican prison, stashed with drugs, alcohol and sharp tools, according to local authorities.

Police in Tamaulipas state said the hole, which had been hidden by bricks, was up to five metres (16ft) deep.

They said it was unfinished and no one has escaped.

In 2015, one of the country's biggest drug lords, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, escaped via tunnel from Altiplano prison.

He was recaptured after six months on the run and later extradited to the US.

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The latest hole was in a jail in Reynosa, a city close to the US border.

It was found after authorities used geothermal technology to detect activities underground, according to local media.

In March, 29 inmates escaped via a tunnel from a prison in the Tamaulipas state capital Ciudad Victoria.

One of the prisoners who fled was involved in the 2012 kidnapping and murder of Karen Alejandra Rodríguez.

He was later recaptured, but the victim's mother, Miriam, who had been campaigning for justice for Mexico's missing people, said she lived in increased fear after the escape.

She was shot dead in her home last week by an unknown assailant.

Mexico also saw another major prison break in the country's north-west in March.

Juan José Esparragoza Monzón, son of one of the country's other drug kingpins, escaped from a jail in Culiacán, Sinaloa state, alongside four other inmates.

His father, Juan José Esparragoza, was a long-time partner of El Chapo in the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the country's biggest crime syndicates.

Monzón remains on the loose.

Tamaulipas police said on Sunday that they were conducting a search for further holes after the latest tunnel was discovered on Saturday night.

They said that Reynosa prison was operating as normal and visiting hours had resumed.

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A tunnel has been discovered in a Mexican prison, stashed with drugs, alcohol and sharp tools, according to local authorities. Police in Tamaulipas state said the hole, which had been hidden by bricks, was up to five metres (16ft) deep. They said it was unfinished and no one has escaped.

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Man who was diagnosed with MPS and was told that he wouldn't survive to age 10, just graduated college

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The healthy, beautiful boy was born in 1988,weighing 8 pounds, 13 ounces. He was perfect, Mark said. At the age of 3, he could throw a baseball so hard that his mom, Jeanne, made a "no ball in the house" rule. Every night, Ryan would watch baseball games with his family on TV, cheering on Rangers pitcher Nolan Ryan. He loved the fact that he could see his own name on the back of the baseball player's jersey.

Before enrolling him in day careat age 3, Jeanne took Ryan to the pediatrician. What was supposed to be a routine checkup revealed that Ryan's liver and spleen were too large, and the Dants were referred to a geneticist. Mark, who had just made lieutenant at the police department in Carrollton, Texas, didn't believe anything was wrong with his son. He didn't go with them to see the geneticist. But two weeks later, tests confirmed the diagnosis.

The geneticist said Ryan had a rare genetic disorder called mucopolysaccharidosis I, or MPS I, with a wide-range of symptoms affecting multiple systems in the body. The mutation forms in a gene that makes an enzyme that helps break down byproducts of chemical reactions in cells. The enzyme can't be produced, leading to a buildup of this byproduct that can cause damage to cells, tissues and organs.

It explained why his spleen and liver were enlarged; the buildup made them 2½ times larger than normal.

The geneticist told the Dants that Ryan would die by the time was 10 or 12. Over time, they would see him change. He would be in a lot of pain, possibly go blind and deaf, suffer a stiffening and curling of the muscles in his limbs that would put him a wheelchair. He would decline mentally.

Soon, he would lose the ability to play baseball.

MarkDant pressed the doctor, asking about research or medications.

" 'You have to understand, your son has a disease that is so rare that there aren't many scientists working on it,' " he recalls the doctor saying. "He was telling us to take him home and love him, because he wouldn't be around long."

MPS I affects one in 100,000 childrenglobally, according to the National Organization for Rare Diseases.

The Dants immediately decided not to tell Ryan; he was too young to understand. They cried in the hallway before taking him home. That became the new normal for them: crying at night, separately, after Ryan went to sleep. When they weren't crying, they were watching him sleep, waiting for the inevitable. Mark would wake up on the floor next to Ryan's bed every day.

"I remember that year being so incredibly painful because we had a happy, playful little boy who was no different than he was before we walked into the examination room, but everything we knew about him was going to change," Mark said. "And there was nothing we could do about it at all."

They spent a year in mourning. But the Dants began to wonder whether there was something they could do. Surely, there were other families out there dealing with MPS I.

"I decided after a year to get up off the floor and do something about it," Mark said.

Tracking down a scientist

Mark started by attending a conference for the National MPS Society. He was shaken and heartbroken to see children in various states of decline. There were no teenagers.

After that, he spent his free time at the library, reading about genetics and the little information available about MPS I. Mark's research led him to an international symposium in Germany, where a scientist presented on enzyme replacement therapy for another rare disease. He asked the scientist whether it was possible to develop a similar therapy for MPS I.

It's possible, he was told, but it will take a lot of time and money. Both were in short supply.

All Mark needed to hear was that it was possible. He decided to buy time. After returning home, he researched nonprofits and started the Ryan Foundation. A bake sale in the family's driveway raised $342.

Through an MPS Society event, Mark connected with another scientist who told him about her brilliant former student at the University of California, Los Angeles. Emil Kakkis was working on an enzyme replacement therapy for MPS I, but struggled due to lack of funding. After meeting Kakkis, Mark knew that he had found the right person.

"He is the most dedicated person because he wants to treat the untreated," Mark said.

They began a partnership. Donations to the Ryan Foundation would fund Kakkis' research, hoping to make the therapy a real treatment.

With the support of their community, golf tournaments, corporate donors and philanthropists who learned about the Dant family through news articles, funding began to grow.

'What will it be like when I die?'

Meanwhile, Ryan was declining. His hands were so stiff that he couldn't move them. By age 5, he had to bend over to put a shirt on because he couldn't raise his arms above his head. Mark attached Velcro to his baseball bat and sewed it to his little batting gloves so Ryan could grip it. He struggled to breathe at times.

By age 7, he had to stop playing. Saturday morning baseball games and practices were replaced with physical therapy and doctors appointments. Mark started driving out of his way to avoid going past the baseball field. It caused both of them too much pain.

Severe headaches would cause Ryan to vomit until he passed out. Just thinking about the headaches scared the boy.

Trying to play soccer, he collapsed after rupturing a hernia in his liver. That night, he asked, "Dad, what's it going to be like when I die?" He asked whether his dog would be with him and where his parents would be. And then he fell asleep.

Mark realized that while they had tried to shield him as much as possible, Ryan knew more than they thought. Other kids at school had heard from their parents that their classmate was in newspaper articles. The stories said he would die, so his classmates said the same thing.

They needed hope more than ever.

Kakkis had been working into the night every night, year after year. He used the funds for researchers and machines. A biotechnology company called BioMarin, formed in 1997, was interested in turning the therapy into a drug called Aldurazyme.

A clinical trial was approved in 1998, and Ryan was invited to be one of 10 children to undergo the therapy in Los Angeles. It was his only chance.

He was scared and didn't understand why he had to leave his friends to live in another place for months.

"I met Ryan as a very afraid little boy who knew that he was going to have to do these weekly infusions," said nurse Sarah McNeil, who assisted him during the trial.

After a few weeks of therapy, Ryan couldn't believe "how little my tummy is." The enzyme replacement therapy was working, removing years of built-up byproduct in his liver and spleen and returning them to normal size. He continued to respond extremely well to the treatment.

Some of the children had allergic reactions to the infusions, but the trial was expanded over four years. The drug would receive marketing approval from the US Food and Drug Administration in 2003.

Over time, Ryan began to feel normal. His hands uncurled, the headaches went away, and he was able to start playing baseball again. He had lived to see age 12, defying the odds.

"It was a really great feeling to be pack as a part of the team and be able to play a sport that I love so much," Ryan said. "I could slide back into the normalcy of being a kid again, pick up where I left off, meet my best friend."

Ryan began to talk about his early childhood dreams for the future again. He wanted to get a driver's license, go to prom, buy a Mustang and go to the University of Louisville. The weekly four-hour IV drip of Aldurazyme was lengthening his expected lifespan, making all of those dreams into possibilities.

Years of middle school and high school were filled with the perfectly normal things that someone Ryan's age should be enjoying. He was even able to eventually buy his Mustang.

But another obstacle was just around the bend.

The enemy within

In the latter years of high school, the lights in Ryan's brain began to turn off. He would study all weekend for an exam, only to have no memory of the information on Monday morning. He was able to graduate, but the problem only grew worse as he moved on to community college.

His annual summer cognitive testing at the University of Minnesota confirmed it: Despite his physical improvement, the mental decline they had always feared was happening, and at a rapid rate.

After years of writing to the equipment manager for the University of Louisville's football team, Ryan had been told that as soon as he could take a full course load, there was a scholarship waiting for him with the equipment staff. There, he would be able to pursue his dream of working in sports.

But his cognitive decline meant he wouldn't be able to go to college.

The Dants learned that another clinical trial was happening at UCLA in 2011, one that was testing whether injecting the enzyme into the spinal fluid would help clear byproduct out of the brain. Ryan latched onto the hope of that trial.

But when they tested Ryan by injecting dye into his spinal fluid, it pooled rather than traveling to the brain due to the narrow and clogged pathway of his spine. He didn't qualify for the trial.

He broke down and sank into a deep depression. A month later, he posted on Facebook, musing about how the journey was never over and full of bumps in the road.

McNeil, the nurse from the first clinical trial, had formed a bond with the Dant family. A friend of Ryan's on Facebook, she saw the post. She feared the worst and reached out to Ryan and his dad, asking what had happened.

When they told her, it broke her heart. "He's the only child left still living from the first 10 in the original trial," McNeil said. "I just thought, 'He's made it this far. This just can't be it.' "

McNeil happened to be working with a neuro-oncologist, Dr. Elizabeth Maher, at the O'Donnell Brain Institute at UT Southwestern Medical Center, mostly with brain tumor patients. She told Maher about Ryan's story and the defeat he felt over his exclusion from the trial.

McNeil raised the question: What if they could use the UCLA trial protocol to get the drug and begin a compassionate use study? Compassionate use is outside of a clinical trial for a medical product that has not been approved, according to the FDA.

"Why wouldn't we do this?" Maher responded. She recognized that the science was excellent and that it was a potential treatment to help the enzyme cross the blood-brain barrier -- protective "Saran wrap for the brain" -- which Aldurazyme couldn't do. But Maher worried about the risk of delivering this enzyme into the spinal fluid and whether it was safe. As they worked through the process to begin the study, the safety question kept Maher up at night.

But Ryan was losing memory retention every day. To him, the benefits outweighed the risk.

In April 2012, the study began. Every 12 weeks, he would go in for a spinal tap that required him to lie on his stomach for 24 hours.

After a month, Ryan felt like his ability to memorize had improved. By three months in, he was reading. After four months, Ryan came running into the clinic to tell Maher that he read a book all the way through over the weekend and remembered it.

The treatment didn't just stop his cognitive decline. In a groundbreaking development, the infusion reversed it.

"All we hoped for was that we could stabilize it," Maher said. "We had no expectation at all that he would improve. What this shows is that the right drug that does its specific function, even in the brain, can lead to neuro-cognitive recovery. The damage we thought was being done to the brain was not permanently impairing those circuits. The lights were just turned off. Then, those circuits began to fire really quickly."

Hope beyond tomorrow

After getting his associate's degree at Brookhaven College in Texas, Ryan was finally able to attend the University of Louisville and take a full course load. He also began working for the equipment staff.

Cognitive testing showed an increase. His grades improved to As and Bs, and he appeared on the athletic director's honor roll for the past three years.

This weekend, Ryan graduates with a bachelor's degree in sports administration. He wants to work in sports management for a professionalteam.

His hard work ethic has made it possible, and the weekly four-hour IV drips and quarterly spinal injections continue until better science comes along.

Kakkis will be at the graduation. Maher firmly believes that people like him and Mark Dant can change the world. Aldurazyme is now the only approved treatment for MPS I patients. A clinical trial at UCLA, using the treatment that has helped Ryan cognitively, continues. A paper was published this yeardetailing Ryan's case study.

"Mark's desperate search for a treatment for his son has led to insights into neuro-cognitive recovery that was unimaginable," Maher said.

The Ryan Foundation for Rare Disease Research continues its mission, and Mark is also now the president and CEO of the National MPS Society.

"Some parents don't really have the desire or drive to do as much work as my parents have," Ryan said. "It's amazing to see how hard they've worked to improve my life. After being able to walk across the stage and see the journey that I've had, now I can see what my next goal is: find a great job, get married, have a family and enjoy life."

Ryan has always been told what will happen. Now, the gift of not knowing is the greatest one he could have, Mark said.

"For many, many years, I wouldn't allow myself to visualize Ryan in a cap and gown and enjoying what it might feel like to be a college graduate, because it wasn't going to happen," Mark said. "But Ryan, and so many others, made it possible by not giving up."

This is why Ryan's graduation isn't just one of thousands happening across the country this month. He's one in a million.

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Piazza, 19, died on Feb. 4 as a result of a Beta Theta Pi pledge event two days before in which he suffered multiple injuries in a fall down the stairs while highly intoxicated, according to police. Eighteen members of the fraternity, which the university has disbanded, are facing criminal charges.

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Mr. Kohl- N. Korea fired a ballistic missile that landed in the sea near Russia. This comes after months of missile tests and threats from North Korea that it’s building nuclear weapons that could reach the US. The US will tighten the screws on all of their sanctions against N.Korea.

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Mr. Kohl- N. Korea fired a ballistic missile that landed in the sea near Russia. This comes after months of missile tests and threats from North Korea that it’s building nuclear weapons that could reach the US. The US will tighten the screws on all of their sanctions against N.Korea.

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North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un supervised the test [File: KCNA via Reuters]

North Korea said on Monday it had successfully launched a new type of ballistic missile in its latest test which it said was aimed at building capacity to launch nuclear missiles.

The North fired a ballistic missile that landed in the sea near Russia on Sunday in a launch that came just days after South Korea's new President Moon Jae-in, who has called for closer engagement with Pyongyang, was inaugurated in Seoul.

Sunday's launch was of a "new ground-to-ground medium long-range strategic ballistic rocket" named the Hwasong-12, the official Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) said.

Leader Kim Jong-un personally oversaw the test, it said, and "hugged officials in the field of rocket research, saying that they worked hard to achieve a great thing".

Kim accused the United States of "browbeating" countries that "have no nukes" and warned Washington not to misjudge the reality that its mainland is in the North's "sighting range for strike", KCNA reported.
EXPLAINED: Why North Korea tests nuclear weapons
The missile was launched at the highest angle so as not to affect the security of neighbouring countries and flew 787km reaching an altitude of 2,111.5km, KCNA said.

Experts said the altitude reached by the missile tested meant it was launched at a high trajectory, which would limit the lateral distance it travelled.

But if it was fired at a standard trajectory, it would have a range of at least 4,000km, according to experts.

It "represents a level of performance never before seen from a North Korean missile", aerospace engineering specialist John Schilling wrote on the respected 38 North website.

"The test-fire aimed at verifying the tactical and technological specifications of the newly developed ballistic rocket capable of carrying a large-size heavy nuclear warhead," KCNA said.

It appeared to demonstrate an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) that could "reliably strike the US base at Guam" in the Pacific, he said, and "more importantly, may represent a substantial advance to developing an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)".

In a statement after the launch, US President Donald Trump's White House called North Korea a "flagrant menace" and urged "far stronger sanctions" against the isolated nation.

The North says it needs atomic weapons to defend itself against the threat of invasion and has carried out two atomic tests and dozens of missile launches since the beginning of last year.

Tensions on the Korean Peninsula have heightened in recent weeks due to Pyongyang's nuclear programme and missile tests and threats from Trump that the US could take unilateral action against it in retaliation.

"The timing is particularly significant because South Korea has a new president - testing him is partly what this is about," Al Jazeera's Andrew Thomas, reporting from Seoul, said. "This is also a sign that they don't feel intimidated by Donald Trump," he added.

"It does seem that this may be a new type of rocket that is being tested - that makes this the most significant launch in at least a year."

Source: Al Jazeera and news agencies

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North Korea said on Monday it had successfully launched a new type of ballistic missile in its latest test which it said was aimed at building capacity to launch nuclear missiles.