In the news

■ Margaret Talev, president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, said the White House has informed her group that President Donald Trump for the second year in a row will 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.