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Margaret Talev, president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, said the White House has informed her group that President Donald Trump will again skip the group’s annual dinner, during which Hollywood celebrities and journalists poke fun at politicians.
U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., pulled out his own loaded handgun during a meeting with constituents in an effort to make a point that guns are dangerous only in the hands of criminals, saying he is “tired of these liberals” blaming guns for violence.
Nick Isgro, the Republican mayor of Waterville, Maine, is facing calls to resign over a Twitter post in which he told Parkland, Fla., school shooting survivor David Hogg to “eat it.”
Norm Hamlet, who played in Merle Haggard’s band for nearly a half-century, said the late country music legend would have been humbled by his hometown of Bakersfield, Calif., naming a post office for him, in a ceremony that drew about 300 people on the two-year anniversary of his death.
James Lamar Horton of Red Bay, Ala., a 71-yearold who volunteered with a kindergarten program in north Alabama, faces multiple counts of sex-related crimes over accusations that he inappropriately touched children and exposed himself to them, authorities said.
Mark Hubbard was sentenced to almost five years in prison after lying to the University of Hawaii about his ability to get Stevie Wonder to play at a fundraiser concert, a scam that resulted in the school paying a $200,000 deposit in 2012 before learning that Wonder hadn’t authorized a show.
Gregory Lueb, 56, an official in the Harris County, Texas, treasurer’s office, is accused of stealing thousands of dollars from a county credit union to pay a dominatrix — a woman with whom Lueb said he had a submissive relationship — who was blackmailing him by threatening to tell his wife, a court document says.
Sgt. Meghan Lehman said the Troy, Mich., Police Department has added to its ranks a cat that will make public appearances to promote pet adoptions.
Joan Stough, 84, of Findlay, Ohio, and others on Saturday honored her brother, Ora Sharninghouse Jr., after his remains, found in 2014 near the Republic of Palau, were identified and returned to her last year — decades after the 22-year-old Navy gunner’s plane crashed in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.