During a tense New Orleans City Council meeting on Tuesday, Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson, who oversees the jail, said she takes "full accountability" for the escape.

All 51 seats in the New York City Council are on the ballot this year. Due to term limits, eight of them are wide open. And multiple sitting members who aren’t term-limited are facing serious ...

In an election where there is not much daylight policy-wise between the two leading candidates, the race to be New York City’s next comptroller has become one focused on coalition building.Though ...