ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — The new World Video Game Hall of Fame has its first class of inductees.

It includes “Pong,” the early table tennis game that introduced millions to electronic play, and “Doom,” which turned players into virtual gunmen and fueled the debate over whether violent games contribute to real-life aggression.

The hall of fame at The Strong museum in Rochester says the six games inducted Thursday cross decades and platforms, but all have impacted the video game industry, popular culture and society in general.

Joining 1972’s “Pong,” and 1993’s “Doom” are: “Super Mario Bros.,” arcade draw “Pac-Man,” Russian import “Tetris,” and “World of Warcraft.”

Nominations for the hall of fame’s class of 2016 are open from now through the end of March.

NORTH POLE, Alaska (AP) — North Pole residents can put marijuana on their Christmas list next year.

The city council in North Pole, Alaska, rejected a measure Monday that would have banned marijuana dispensaries. Marijuana became legal in Alaska in February, and sales begin next year.

Even Santa Claus — yes, that’s his real name — testified in favor of selling pot in this Christmas-themed town, where light poles resemble candy canes.

Claus said he is medical marijuana patient, and he’d like to buy pot in North Pole instead of making the short drive to Fairbanks.

Some worried how others might perceive North Pole if marijuana dispensaries are allowed. But one council member noted North Pole already allows the sale of alcohol, cigarettes and guns.

AUBURN, Maine (AP) — A federal magistrate says a Maine man convicted of killing a 4-year-old girl by placing her in an oven should be allowed to argue he was too mentally ill to file a timely appeal.

The judge’s recommendation provides a possible avenue for 66-year-old John Lane to seek a new trial three decades after he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

The Auburn man was convicted of murder in 1985 for placing Angela Palmer in an oven, turning up the heat and blocking her escape by putting a chair under the handle of the oven door.

Lane contends his lawyer was ineffective and says drugs provided in prison left him “cognitively diminished, if not incapacitated.” The state attorney general will seek to uphold his conviction and sentence.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has thrown out the conviction of a Pennsylvania man accused of making threats on Facebook.

The justices ruled Monday that it was not enough for prosecutors to show that the comments of Anthony Elonis would make a reasonable person feel threatened.

Elonis was prosecuted for making illegal threats after he posted Facebook rants in the form of rap lyrics about killing his estranged wife, harming law enforcement officials and shooting up a school.

Elonis claimed the government had no right to prosecute him if he didn’t actually intend his comments to be threatening to others. But the Obama administration said that the test is whether the comments would strike fear in a reasonable person.

NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft will roll out the latest version of its Windows operating system at the end of July.

The company said Monday that Windows 10 is designed with mobile computing in mind, allowing users to switch seamlessly between personal computers, tablets, smartphones and other gadgets. The operating system is intended to give apps a similar feel on all devices and comes with a new Web browser integrated with Cortana, the company’s voice-activated answer to Apple’s Siri.

Microsoft Corp. says Windows 10 will be available in 190 countries as a free upgrade on July 29 for anyone currently running Windows 8.1 or 7, the two previous versions of the software.

DOVER, Del. (AP) — Beau Biden, son of Vice President Joe Biden and two-time attorney general for the state of Delaware, has died.

The 46-year-old lawyer died Saturday of brain cancer, less than two years after being diagnosed.

Beau Biden was hospitalized earlier this month at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. At the time the vice president’s office declined to say why he was being treated.

Beau Biden also suffered a mild stroke in 2010.

He announced last year that he would not seek a third term as attorney general and instead planned to run for governor in 2016.

In addition to serving as attorney general, Beau Biden was a member of the Delaware National Guard.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio family is mourning for a toddler who drowned in a pond on the same day her mother gave birth to her brother.

Authorities in Marion County, which is north of Columbus, say 18-month-old Jaylynn Adamson had been staying with a relative while her mom was at the hospital.

Lt. Jason Dutton of the Marion County sheriff’s office says the little girl was found in the pond Friday morning. She was pronounced dead at Marion General Hospital, where her mother was in labor.

David Adamson, an uncle of the children’s father, tells The Columbus Dispatch that the girl’s mother gave birth to a son later that day.

The sheriff’s office isn’t saying who found the little girl in the pond or releasing other details about the drowning.

CHICAGO (AP) — A major study has shown that a drug targeting the body’s disease-fighting immune system may improve survival for the most common form of lung cancer.

These drugs have transformed treatment of melanoma, the deadliest skin cancer. Studies presented at a medical conference Friday in Chicago suggest these immune therapies can play a broader role in more common cancers. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths nationwide.

The new study tested Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Opdivo (op-DEE-voh). It blocks a protein that prevents the immune system from attacking cancer cells. It worked better than chemotherapy for a form of advanced non-small cell lung cancer. Opdivo patients lived on average three months longer. It might not seem like much but advanced lung cancer is incurable and any success is considered promising.

BOLTON, Mass. (AP) — A 15-year-old Massachusetts girl has been charged with making a threat to her school on social media that referenced the Columbine High School massacre.

Police in Bolton arrested the Nashoba Regional High School student on Wednesday after receiving a tip about an anonymous post on the social media app Whisper. The person wrote in the post that she was “gonna pull a columbine … before I graduate.”

Two students killed 12 fellow students and a teacher and wounded more than 20 others in the 1999 shootings in Colorado. The two shooters then killed themselves.

Police say Whisper gave them the GPS location for the threatening post, and authorities tracked down the girl. Police also seized a handgun that was properly registered to one of her parents.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google’s next version of its Android operating system will boast new ways to fetch information, pay merchants, and protect privacy on mobile devices as the Internet company duels with Apple to make its technology indispensable.

The upgrade will give Android’s personal assistant, Google Now, expanded powers of intuition that may be greeted as a great convenience to some and a tad too creepy for others.

The Android renovations unveiled Thursday at Google’s annual developers’ conference won’t be available until late summer or early fall. That’s around the same time that Apple is expected to release the latest overhaul of the iOS software that powers the iPhone and iPad.

The annual changes to Android and iOS are becoming increasingly important as people become more dependent on smartphones to manage their lives.