The Helena-West Helena City Council held its first meeting without a mayor Tuesday, July 1, as it awaits the governor's ...

Nearly every day, Franklin pickleball players pack the courts at Youngs Creek Park to play as long as the daylight allows.

Shirley Franklin was always uneasy about her role. In 2001, without a runoff, she won a bitter race for Atlanta mayor against several well-known and well-financed candidates.

Cassie Franklin, the 48-year-old mayor of Everett, Washington, came home from a city council meeting one day in March and looked around her neighborhood.