By Paul Burgarino MANTECA -- It may have caught his colleagues by surprise, but one elected official in this city feels the site of a proposed mixed- use project is ideal for a grandiose City Hall.

By SARA KUGLER NEW YORK - City Hall is moving - across the river. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and 85 staffers are setting up a satellite office in a Brooklyn emergency command center while their usual headquarters in Manhattan gets a facelift.

By David Ball, Florida Keys Keynoter, Marathon Jan. 13--The Marathon City Council has decided to take a look at yet another option for a new city hall - similar to a proposal looked at as far back as 2004.

An aspiring politician strolled past a metal detector at tightly guarded City Hall - escorted by the councilman he once hoped to replace - then pulled a gun in the crowded balcony of the council chamber and shot his rival to death.

An aspiring politician strolled past a metal detector at tightly guarded City Hall - escorted by the councilman he once hoped to replace - then pulled a gun in the crowded balcony of the council chamber and shot his rival to death.