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Jack Weiss and Carmen Trutanich are headed for a May 19 runoff for city attorney. Wendy Greuel appears to have won her bid for controller. Measure B, the solar energy proposal, is defeated.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa secured a second four-year term in Tuesday's election.

The mayor of a small Southern California city says he will resign after being criticized for sharing an e-mail picture depicting the White House lawn planted with watermelons under the title "No Easter egg hunt this year."

The president, meeting with U.S. mayors at the White House, vows to use his full power to expose any misuse of the $787 billion in economic stimulus dollars.

Mayor Bloomberg's bare-bones budget for next year slashes the city work force by 23,000 but won't hit homeowners with higher taxes, officials revealed Thursday.

About 400 supporters gathered Friday night outside City Hall to urge Portland's mayor to stay on the job despite an intensifying political storm over his sexual relationship with a legislative intern nearly four years ago.

Portland Mayor Sam Adams admitted this week that he lied to cover up his relationship with a teenage legislative intern because a potential mayoral candidate had spread rumors that Adams had sex with a minor.

The New York City Council had the legal right to extend term limits for itself and Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday, clearing an obstacle for Mayor Michael Bloomberg to seek a third term.