A senior aide to a former mayor of Atlanta collapses on a courtroom floor after hearing that she is headed to prison.
F.B.I. agents in Los Angeles haul away computers and documents during a raid of a veteran councilman’s office.
News cameras trail the most powerful alderman in Chicago as he walks to court to face a charge of attempted extortion.
Federal prosecutors in Philadelphia accuse a powerful labor boss of keeping a key city councilman on his union’s payroll.