The woman who posed for the painting was Betty Compton, a Ziegfeld Follies showgirl and the mistress of NYC mayor Jimmy Walker, who served the city from 1926 to 1931 — a wry touch added by ...

With the election of crooked, dapper Mayor Jimmy Walker in 1926, Jimmy Hines’s big days were at hand. In his unostentatious apartment on West 111th Street, Walker Man Hines received long lines ...

Food lovers and hospitality pros and sponsors gathered at The Gallery at Jimmy’s to officially kick off Restaurant Week ...

Voters determined the mayor of six Coast communities Tuesday in election primaries across the Coast. Bay St. Louis, ...

Ward 4: With no primary contest, Republican incumbent F.B. “Rusty” Walker faces independent ... Kenny Torgeson defeated incumbent mayor Jimmy Rafferty, according to preliminary results ...

It seems as if Tammany Hall, the most well-known example of a “political machine,” has faded into the void at the center of ...

Scott Walker said that part of the challenge for Republicans had ... currently held by Alex? Of course, not.” Jimmy Patronis, the state’s chief financial officer, fended off a challenge from Democrat ...

Barack Obama's trip to Clinton Thursday follows a visit to Rome and Cooperstown while he was in office. What other presidents have been here?