Newport Mayor Dean Sawyer resigned Monday, three days after OPB revealed he has been posting offensive content in a private Facebook group for current and former law enforcement officers.

Since 2016, Newport Mayor Dean Sawyer has posted racist memes mocking both the trans community and Mexicans. He's also made posts that joked about committing violence against women.

Newport Mayor Dean Sawyer had been sharing the offensive messages since at least 2016 in a private group for current and retired police officers.

Newport Mayor Dean Sawyer apologized and resigned Monday morning after spurring a public uproar and calls to step down for a yearslong series of hateful posts to a private police Facebook group ...

Sawyer was a Newport police officer for 30 years before being elected mayor in 2018. "We can't live under a mayor, our highest elected official in our community, who harbors these kinds of belief ...

South Side Ald. Roderick Sawyer, whose father was mayor in the 1980s, will run for City Hall’s top job, he said Thursday. Sawyer’s declaration marks an extraordinary break with Mayor Lori ...

Compromise on civilian oversight gave mayor final say on superintendent, policy — but it won’t ever come to that, alderman says Ald. Roderick Sawyer, among the Council’s prime backers of ...

Sawyer finished Washington's second term as mayor after Washington's sudden death from a heart attack. Sawyer died in 2008 and was buried at the same cemetery where Washington was laid to rest.

Sawyer, the son of Eugene Sawyer, Chicago’s mayor from 1987-89, is giving up his 6th Ward City Council seat with the goal of turning Lori Lightfoot into a one-term mayor.

Sawyer, who has represented the 6th Ward on the South Side since 2011, is the son of former Mayor Eugene Sawyer, who was elected by the City Council in 1987 following the death of Mayor Harold ...