Public Officials

City officials are expanding a recycling program across Chicago. The so-called "Blue Cart" program allows residents to put recyclables in carts without presorting. The carts are collected by the city's Streets and Sanitation Department. The program...

On his time off, Palmerton Patrolman Robert Cohowicz traveled to Carbon County Court to witness the conclusion of a case he had investigated. It was the kind of nuts-and-bolts case that clogs the court docket -- a couple stole a video game system from an...

Days before the city ousted about 300 tenants from an apartment complex, Lauderhill officials were using e-mail exchanges to discuss buying the site. City Commissioner Hayward Benson asked April 4, six days before the closure, whether the city could find...

Higher water bills are on tap as the city forges ahead with plans for new water plants expected to cost about $126 million. Several new facilities that rely on alternative water sources are envisioned under a plan that won tentative approval from city...

Residents of Northeast Baltimore have long used donated police radios to communicate when they go out on citizen patrols each week, but lately the equipment - which is more than 15 years old - has been acting up. When community leaders looked into how...

Deltona Mayor Dennis Mulder is wearing a big smile in his new photo on the city Web site. But he shook his head and grimaced last week when he learned how much it cost taxpayers. City leaders spent almost $1,300 for photos of themselves, according to...

During a day of stop-and-go campaigning for the 2nd District seat on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, state Sen. Mark Ridley-Thomas paused for a little criticism from his campaign manager: You need to do more to toot your own horn. "You have...

Broward County elected officials will conduct a town hall meeting, including a question-and-answer session, on Tuesday. They plan to appear at 9:30 a.m. in the Cabaret Room of the Kings Point Clubhouse, 7620 Nob Hill Road, Tamarac. The official...

The former chief of Chicago's drug-testing program said Saturday that he was unfairly dismissed and denied all allegations of mismanagement. Russell Baggett, 55, stands accused of failing to include more than 800 truck drivers with commercial driver's...

An inch or a mile, it's all the same to the city when it comes to homeowners' problems. Members of a city board call it unfair to charge the same $300 fee to homeowners who want to intrude an inch into their backyard clear zone as those who ask for more....