Massachusetts to ban fantasy sports for people under 21
BOSTON (Reuters) – Massachusetts would prohibit people under the age of 21 from playing paid fantasy sports games under a proposed set of regulations for the fast-growing, multibillion-dollar industry laid out on Thursday by state Attorney General Maur…
Texas man charged with killing six at campsite
DALLAS (Reuters) – A Texas man was charged on Thursday with killing six people, including a child, at an east Texas campsite over the weekend, prosecutors said.
U.S. Secret Service agent accused of sexting deemed flight risk: prosecutors
(Reuters) – A White House Secret Service officer accused of sending naked pictures of himself to an undercover police officer posing as a 14-year-old girl should be held until trial, prosecutors said on Thursday.
District of Columbia pays $16.7 million over false imprisonment
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The District of Columbia agreed on Thursday to pay $16.65 million to a man who spent 27 years in prison for a rape and murder he did not commit, the city’s attorney general said.
Colorado man who threatened college faces federal gun charges
DENVER (Reuters) – A Colorado man who threatened to shoot people at a community college before burning it down has been indicted on federal weapons charges after he was found to own an assault rifle, handgun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, prosec…
Lawsuit seeks to stop law limiting St. Louis County traffic fine revenue
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) – A Missouri law aimed at reducing local governments’ reliance on revenue from minor traffic violations is unconstitutional because it singles out St. Louis County, an attorney who filed a lawsuit against the law said on Thursday.
U.S. FCC proposes upgraded wireless emergency alerts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Thursday proposed upgrading wireless emergency alerts to the nation’s more than 350 million mobile phones.
Magnitude 4.7 earthquake shakes Oklahoma, Kansas
TULSA, Okla. (Reuters) – A magnitude 4.7 earthquake struck northern Oklahoma early on Thursday, rattling residents out of their beds and shaking the ground across a 100-mile (160-km) radius that included the city of Tulsa and the state of Kansas.
Arkansas suspends judge facing charges of sexual misconduct
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) – An Arkansas judge accused by a state panel of multiple disciplinary infractions, including sexual impropriety with defendants, was suspended on Thursday by the chief of the state Supreme Court. 
Chicago judge orders police torelease video of black teen’s shooting death
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A judge in Chicago ruled on Thursday that police must release a video of the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old black teenager in October 2014, after a journalist sued the city’s police department to make the information public.
