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Black caucus is postponed due to arrest North Adams Transcript WILLIAMSTOWN -- Just days after a visiting professor at Williams College pleaded guilty to charges of fraud in federal court, the aftermath of his conviction is still being felt on campus and has led to the postponement of Monday’s Congressional Black Caucus symposium. Bernard Moore, the college’s W. Ford Schumann ‘50 visiting assistants professor in Democratic Studies, initiated the symposium last year, which included Gov. Deval L. Patrick and U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, D-SC, Democratic Leadership Majority Whip, and was one of the primary organizers of the event this year....

RICHMOND, Va. -- Sen. Jim Webb said he owns the gun that an aide was arrested for carrying into the U.S. Capitol complex in March. "It's my gun," Webb told the Richmond Times-Dispatch in an interview last week. Webb previously had refused to say whether the gun was his, although his senior aide--Phillip Thompson--had told police the weapon belonged to the Democratic senator. Thompson was arrested on an illegal handgun charge when he carried the loaded pistol and two other loaded magazines in a briefcase into the Russell Senate office building. A federal prosecutor later dropped the charge. Webb said...