Mayor Ken Williams resigned in Centerton, Ark. (pop. 2,146), in November and revealed that he is actually Don LaRose, an Indiana preacher who abruptly abandoned his family in 1980 because, he said, satanists had abducted and threatened him, and brainwashed him to rub out details of a murder he supposedly knew about. He said his ...

... sometimes my kids sure miss her." Not surprisingly, her best-received lines were barbs at Obama. "I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities," she said, a reference ...

... old son. Her hyperventilating critics on the left pooh-poohed her experience as governor, declaring the former small-town mayor unfit for the national stage. Why, she had hardly traveled abroad (except to visit the troops) and had never ...

... and trust each other, he said. "It's not a modern town, but it's not a backward town," he said. Being a small-town mayor, Hackler said, is a combination of jobs. Over the years he's been called on to be everything from chief of the ...

... is heading in the right direction. And, according to Pearce, that direction is much different from the role of small-town mayor in the past. Rather than sitting back and taking care of things at home, Pearce has extended his boundaries of ...

... commissions, and boards in an executive branch that is presided over by a governor with the limited powers of a small-town mayor! Reconstruction is over. Powell Clayton is not coming back. It is safe, and necessary, to untie the governor ...

... of God in Christ, and said, "If my pastor stands with me it will happen." Snyder said that as he talked with small-town mayors across Arkansas he learned of the need for such affordable housing. "Every community has people who, as they ...

... enough revenue to work with are common pitfalls for small-town mayors - Mayflower, Vilonia, Greenbrier, Guy and Silver ... at times, and here again is another example of a small town mayor doing things. Before Frank Pearce became mayor of ...

... straightening things out, something she indicates is quite daunting. She has even solicited help from a fellow small-town mayor, Melinda Head of Damascus. As of Wednesday the two have not officially talked, but Mayor Armstrong says she plans ...

... popular president was re-elected to a second five-year term today, defeating a surprisingly strong challenge by a small-town mayor from the ruling Likud Party. Ezer Weizman won 63 votes in the 120-member parliament, while Shaul Amor, favored ...