New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) claimed he carried around a photo of a police officer friend who died in the line of duty in 1987, the New York Times reports.

“But the weathered photo of Officer Venable had not actually spent decades in the mayor’s wallet. It had been created by employees in the mayor’s office in the days after Mr. Adams claimed to have been carrying it in his wallet.”

“The employees were instructed to create a photo of Officer Venable, according to a person familiar with the request. A picture of the officer was found on Google; it was printed in black-and-white and made to look worn as if the mayor had been carrying it for some time, including by splashing some coffee on it, said the person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.”

New York Times: “They are not planning to divorce, they said, but will date other people. They will continue to share the Park Slope townhouse where they raised their two children, now in their 20s — the vinyl-sided hub of a thoroughly modern political family whose mixed-race symbolism helped send a spindly progressive long shot to City Hall.”

Jeffrey Toobin: “Linda Fairstein and Yusef Salaam—their names emerge from the mists of semi-recent New York history. Their fates became linked on April 19, 1989, when the woman who became known as the Central Park jogger was assaulted. Fairstein was a prosecutor in the case, Salaam a defendant. She won a conviction; he went to prison. But in the years that followed, they have all but changed places, with their lives and reputations following contrasting sine curves.”

“Today, Fairstein lives in a kind of exile on a small island off the west coast of Florida. Salaam, who was ultimately cleared in the jogger case, shakes hands at subway stops in Harlem nearly every morning, with the same practiced pitch: ‘I’m Yusef Salaam, one of the Exonerated Five. I’m running for City Council, and I’d like your support.’ Election Day is June 27.”

Former Rhode Island councilman Matthew Reilly (R) was arrested on multiple counts of child molestation, weeks after he was found passed out in his car with drug paraphernalia around him, the Providence Journal reports.

A dead raccoon and a sign with racist and “intimidating language” was left on the front door of an Oregon mayor’s office Monday, USA Today reports.

North Miami Beach Mayor Anthony DeFillipo was arrested Wednesday, apparently in connection with “voting irregularities,” CBS News Miami reports.

“A developer quietly paid Miami Mayor Francis Suarez (R) at least $170,000 over the past two years to help cut through red tape and secure critical permits for his stalled real estate project in Coconut Grove,” according to internal corporate records exclusively obtained by the Miami Herald.

Cranston, Rhode Island city councilman Matthew Reilly (R) was arrested Monday morning after he was reportedly caught smoking what appeared to be crack cocaine in his car, WPRI reports.

“Agents with the FBI executed a search warrant on the Seminole Heights home of Tampa City Council member Lynn Hurtak on Monday, seizing computers, a phone and other equipment belonging to her husband,” the Tampa Bay Times reports.

“Hurtak is married to Tim Burke, a nationally recognized former journalist who runs a media business. She deferred questions to him.”

A Republican county council member in Muncie, Indiana, now identifies as “woman of color,” the Muncie Star Press reports.

Said Ryan Webb: “After much consideration I have decided to come out and finally feel comfortable announcing my true authentic self. It is with great relief that I announce to everyone that I identify as a woman and not just any woman but as a woman of color as well. I guess this would make me gay/lesbian as well, since I am attracted to women.”

“Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s legal team lost their bid to block the deposition of his former deputy on Wednesday, as a federal judge appointed by former President Trump quickly rejected the prosecutor’s request for a restraining order after a fiery hearing,” Law & Crime reports.

“Elon Musk is planning to build his own town on part of thousands of acres of newly purchased pasture and farmland outside the Texas capital, according to deeds and other land records and people familiar with the project,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“In meetings with landowners and real-estate agents, Mr. Musk and employees of his companies have described his vision as a sort of Texas utopia along the Colorado River, where his employees could live and work.”

Philip Bump: “For the first time in American history, the mayors of the five largest cities in the country are not White men. Four — the mayors of the four largest cities — are Black. If Paul Vallas, a White man, wins the April runoff to replace Lori Lightfoot, that pattern will be broken.”