Legal sports betting could be coming to Massachusetts, now that the U.S. Supreme Court has struck down a federal law banning states from allowing it.
The federal Supreme Court issued a ruling Monday morning overturning the federal Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 on a 7-2 vote, upholding the state of New Jersey's desire to allow sports betting.
Anti-tax-cut protesters who occupied U.S. Senator Susan Collins's office Bangor, Maine in December 2017 have been sentenced to one whole day in jail.
The three women staged the sit-in on December 18, two weeks after a group of five anti-tax-cut protesters occupied the same office and got off with a $100 donation to charity after the Penobscot County district attorney declined to prosecute them.
