A Pennsylvania mayor announced his resignation Thursday a week after jurors convicted him on charges that he traded city contracts for campaign cash. Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski said he will step down at 5 p.m. Friday from the job he's held a dozen years.

http:// www.poconorecord.com/news/20180308/pawlowski-to-resign-friday

www.governing.com/topics/politics/tns-teen-texting-resign-connecticut-arce.html

State Rep. Angel Arce, under mounting pressure to resign following revelations that a series of text messages went from his Facebook account to a 16-year-old girl, announced Wednesday that he would step down from his legislative seat.

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JOHANNESBURG - Former Police Minster Fikile Mbalula has resigned as a Member of Parliament (MP).

https:// www.housingwire.com/articles/42712-mayer-brown-partner-james-tanenbaum-resigns-after-allegations-of-inappropriate-conduct-surface

James Tanenbaum, a well-known capital markets specialist, resigned from his position as a partner at Mayer Brown this week after allegations that he engaged in inappropriate conduct at his former firm surfaced recently.

https:// www.themastonline.com/2018/03/09/znbc-workers-force-union-leaders-to-resign/

According to the source, ZUBID president Chomba Yumbe and financial secretary Tom Njovu resigned after the members passed a vote of no confidence in them following their alleged failure to mediate in their delayed February salaries.

https:// munsifdaily.in/two-tdp-ministers-resign-from-modi-cabinet/

Union Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju and Union Minister of State for Science and Technology Y.S. Chowdary submitted their resignations to Prime Minister Modi.

André Poggenburg sparked outrage for attacking Germany’s Turkish population in a speech last month.

https:// www.politico.eu/article/german-far-right-regional-leader-to-resign-over-racist-comments/

www.newsinenglish.no/2018/03/08/president-of-the-storting-resigns/

Olemic Thommessen, the embattled president of Norway’s Parliament (Storting), finally bowed to pressure on Thursday and announced that he would resign his post that’s second only to the monarch’s.

https:// www.thenewsminute.com/article/bjp-ministers-resign-andhra-cabinet-ahead-budget-session-77617

Endowments Minister Manikyala Rao and Health and Medical Education Minister Kamineni Srinivas tendered their resignations.

Longtime Kanahwa County Delegate Ron Walters, a Republican, resigned from office effective Wednesday morning.

www.wsaz.com/content/news/Longtime-Kanahwa-County-Delegate-resigns–476187893.html

https:// www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2018/03/07/prince-william-county-school-board-chairman-resigns/?utm_term=.fd8b95543ef5

Ryan Sawyers, who was elected to the position in 2015, wrote in a resignation letter that he was stepping down because of “personal and professional reasons.” He sent the letter to Lillie Jessie, vice chairwoman of the board in suburban Virginia.

https:// www.ibj.com/articles/67884-dean-of-troubled-indiana-law-school-set-to-resign

Valparaiso University School of Law Dean Andrea Lyon said she plans to resign from the troubled school June 1, but remain on the faculty as a research professor at the institution, which last year acknowledged its future operations are uncertain.

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Birgie Miller, executive director for the “Ding” Darling Wildlife Society-Friends of the Refuge since 2010, has tendered notice of her resignation to the board of directors, effective summer 2018.

https:// www.wsj.com/articles/lloyd-blankfein-prepares-to-exit-goldman-sachs-as-soon-as-years-end-1520613681

Lloyd Blankfein is preparing to step down as Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s chief executive as soon as the end of the year, capping a more than 12-year run that has made him one of the longest-serving bosses on Wall Street.