Hialeah Councilwoman Angelica Pacheco surrendered to the FBI on Thursday morning as she faces healthcare fraud charges. The FBI confirmed to the Miami Herald that Pacheco is in federal custody and was scheduled to make her first appearance Thursday afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Lauren F. Louis in Miami federal court. The councilwoman was elected […]
Reality Check is a Bee series holding officials and organizations accountable and shining a light on their decisions. Have a tip? Email realitycheck@sacbee.com. After learning information from The Sacramento Bee, a Sacramento city councilwoman is calling for an investigation into whether the city violated state law when it shut out the public from a portion […]
A local councilwoman was gunned down Friday as she was leaving her home in the southern state of Guerrero, authorities and local media said, marking the second female politician to be killed in Mexico after Claudia Sheinbaum became the first woman to win the country’s presidency last week. Esmeralda Garzon, a councilwoman in the municipality […]
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A local Mexican councilwoman in a small town in the Pacific coastal state of Guerrero was killed on Friday by armed men who showed up at her front door, authorities and local media said, following the most violent elections in modern Mexican history. Esmeralda Garzon, who led the equity and gender […]
Memphis Councilwoman Michalyn Easter-Thomas resigned from her position with Memphis River Parks Partnership in response to the ethics complaint filed against her regarding her employment. Easter-Thomas and her attorney Andre Wharton have been battling an ethics complaint for months. That complaint process ended Wednesday after Rodrick Holmes, the attorney representing the board, said the councilwoman […]
Editor’s Note: In May 2024, a Jackson County grand jury decided not to indict Roshuanda Merritt on the charges against her. A north Georgia councilwoman is behind bars after officials say she was arrested on drug-related charges. Georgia Bureau of Investigation officials said 43-year-old Roshuanda Merritt of Commerce was arrested Friday after officials learned she […]
A Georgia city councilwoman is accused of fudging election paperwork to hide her criminal record, state investigators say. Tameka Lowe, 46, is charged with violation of oath by a public officer after the City of Manchester councilwoman was accused of falsifying details of her criminal history when she applied for an open council seat, according […]
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — A Fort Wayne city councilwoman was chosen Saturday as the new mayor of Indiana’s second most populous city, and its first Black leader, during a caucus to replace its late mayor, who died in March. Councilwoman Sharon Tucker, a Democrat, will also become the second woman to serve as mayor […]
Months ahead of Port Huron’s election filing deadline, the races for city offices are already shaping out to be a contest — with one extra City Council seat potentially up for grabs and a challenge for Mayor Pauline Repp from a familiar face. Repp first announced her intent to seek re-election on Feb. 19, pulling […]
Federal police in Brazil have arrested the men suspected of ordering the killing of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle Franco in 2018. The assassination of the 38-year-old black, bisexual Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman in a drive-by shooting shook the country profoundly. Two federal police sources with knowledge of the investigation told the Associated Press […]
Sylvia Gonzalez only made it as far as her second meeting as a new member of the city council in her small Texas community when a police officer tapped her on the shoulder in what she viewed as “a negative way.” Gonzalez, then 72, would eventually be arrested for stealing a government document at the […]
A Lexington-Fayette Urban County Councilwoman was arrested Sunday on criminal trespassing and other charges, according to Lexington Police Department and Fayette County Detention Center records. Tayna Fogle, who is in her first term as a council member, was arrested Sunday after police responded to a disturbance shortly after 3 p.m. in the 2800 block of […]