Public officials

A Texas man who took out an ad that said a former mayor broke laws in a city land acquisition…

A New York newspaper is engaged in a battle to quash a grand jury subpoena for the identities of some…

Iowa Gov. Chet Culver said he will allow the public to see e-mail he sent privately in his first two years…

A defamation lawsuit against U.S. Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) is set to be dismissed after the U.S. Court of Appeals…

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals (D.C. Cir.) heard oral arguments this week over whether Rep. John…

Small towns and communities in Connecticut are shutting down their entire Web sites for fear that a new state law,…

County officials in Arizona may have to repeat a meeting they held last week in which several protesters and journalists…

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s security detail barred two journalists from a speech he gave hours after his resignation, according to the…

Responding to a proverbial elbow jab to the ribcage from lawyers for the Detroit Free Press, embattled Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will testify…

Last month saw Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick trying to force Free Press and Detroit News reporters to testify in the newspapers' Freedom of…