Mayor of tornado-devastated town resigns
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The mayor of this tiny town that was all but destroyed by a tornado earlier this month has resigned, saying he needs to focus on his family and isn't the leader Greensburg needs right now.
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A former county employee leading an effort to recall Sheriff Lee Baca based on his handling of Paris Hilton's jail sentence has resigned.
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13 September 2004 -- Aid workers were leaving Afghanistan&#39;s western city of Herat today after bloody clashes in recent days sparked by the dismissal of a powerful local governor.
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Texas women's basketball coach Jody Conradt announced her resignation Monday night.
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Displaced central Florida residents spent the night in shelters after a line of storms packing at least one tornado killed 19 people. A massive cleanup effort awaits them. Gov. Charlie Crist planned to tour the area Saturday with FEMA's director, assessing what one official called "complete devastation" of homes, businesses and churches.
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The state's insurance commissioner resigned Friday, heading off an impeachment trial on charges of neglect, corruption and incompetence.
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Aberdeen councillor Raymond Hutcheon quits his post the day after his house is searched by police.
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The president of troubled retailer Daiei announced his resignation Friday, two days after he was forced by lenders to seek a government bailout.
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One of the youngest mayors in the country has resigned three years into his four-year term to pursue opportunities outside the state.
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Christine Beatty, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's chief of staff, said Monday she is resigning amid allegations that she and the mayor lied under oath about an affair.
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Politics: 10 November 2004, Wednesday. Unidentified assaulters have beaten up the mayor of Varna municipality Avren on his way out of his home Wednesday morning.
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New Orleans&#39; mayor urged the Big Easy&#39;s half-million residents to evacuate, and residents of low-lying Gulf Coast communities were ordered to leave Tuesday as Hurricane Ivan moved toward the northern Gulf Coast with 140 mph
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A U.S. government hurricane scientist has resigned from the United Nations' science panel on climate change because, he said, a lead author in the group had too strongly linked global warming to hurricanes.
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By The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 14--On Tuesday, the sheriff of Lincoln County resigned, pled guilty to embezzlement and began two years of probation.   Normally, we do not comment on the local affairs of a county as far away from the Coast as Lincoln (where U.S.
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Mayor Anthony Williams (website - news - bio) says the city has returned to a bad habit of not honoring its commitments. He says he made the agreement with the council and baseball to cut this deal.
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Calls for mayor to quit after leaked email claimed 'mayhem with explosives' was Islamic policy
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Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. chief executive Daryl Brewster has resigned amid a sputtering turnaround effort