1.   For the last month, Mandzic and other Muslim town councilors have lived in the hotel under the protection of U.S. soldiers.

2.   He and his best friend, fellow town councilor Juan Jose Gastaniazatorre, took particular pride in making sure the festive lights got put up for Epiphany every January.

3.   Radio Mindanao Network spoke to an unnamed town councilor who said at least one Abu Sayyaf commander was killed in the hospital siege.

4.   A Bosnian telling a north England town councilor how things got turned round in Tuzla.

5.   A governing party town councilor who allegedly made up a story about his kidnapping by suspected Basque separatists insisted Sunday his abduction tale was true.

6.   A Lakas-NUCD candidate for town councilor and a farmer were also killed in the attack, police said.

7.   A town councilor was killed in southern Zamboanga city last week, but police said the slaying might have been over business rivalry.

8.   ANC leaders in the region called earlier this month for a delay in the vote for local leaders such as mayors and town councilors in KwaZulu-Natal.

9.   Ayoubu Haji Barii, a town councilor, denied there were any irregularities, saying Besigye supporters were trying to create trouble.

10.   Both groups fear losing power as a result of the vote to choose local leaders such as town councilors being held Wednesday in most of the country.