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DETROIT (AP) -- A judge has sentenced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to 120 days in jail, nine months after a newspaper story about text messages ignited a scandal at City Hall. Wayne County Circuit Judge David Groner ordered the sentence Tuesday afternoon and noted Kilpatrick would not be given an opportunity for early release.

Fri September 12, 2008 Defending The Indefensible By Leonard Pitts Jr. The Miami Herald If Kwame Kilpatrick were white, don't you think he'd have been thrown out of office a long time ago? Heck, he'd be out of jail by now and shopping his memoirs. Instead, it was just last week, after a year of scandal and revelation that has paralyzed his city and made it the punchline to an international joke, that Detroit's mayor surrendered his office and copped a plea: 120 days in jail, five years probation and a $1 million fine. Because, you see, Kilpatrick is not...

Detroit, Mich. (Detroit Free Press) - A moving truck left the Manoogian Mansion at 4 p.m. today, just five days before Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is expected to vacate the residence. The North American Van Lines vehicle pulled out of the driveway about a half hour before a black Cadillac Escalade left, followed by a black sedan. Immediately after, a black Chevrolet Impala parked in the mansion's driveway to block the entrance. Kilpatrick is expected to leave the premises when he officially steps down as mayor on Thursday. By CHRISTY ARBOSCELLO, FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has pleaded guilty to felony charges in Wayne County Circuit Court. He will be forced to resign immediately.

(WXYZ) From the Wayne County Prosecutor: A plea may be imminent in the Kilpatrick text scandal case. It is expected that Defendant Kwame Kilpatrick will plead guilty today at 5:15 p.m. The plea will be take place before Judge Edward Ewell in Frank Murphy Hall of Justice Courtroom 302. Prosecutor Kym L. Worthy will be making a brief statement and a press release will be sent out after the plea is entered on the record. On the date of sentencing she will hold a press conference.

Removal hearing set to begin for Detroit mayorBy ED WHITE and COREY WILLIAMS,Associated Press Writers AP - 1 hour 37 minutes ago DETROIT - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has failed to stop Gov. Jennifer Granholm from moving ahead with an extraordinary public hearing that could cost him his job in a scandal over steamy text messages and millions of tax dollars. Kilpatrick's lawyers struck out with pleas to a Wayne County judge and the Michigan Court of Appeals, clearing the way for Granholm to begin hearing evidence Wednesday about the mayor's role in a $8.4 million settlement with fired police officers...

Detroit has been shaken by claims of lurid conduct and a cover-up at city hall. He is an ordinary 15-year-old boy who wants to know what happened to his murdered mother. Yet Jonathan Bond’s painful and protracted quest for justice has plunged him into the heart of an explosive political scandal that has shaken Detroit ... Bond is the son of Tamara Greene, a statuesque black stripper known as Strawberry, whose murder in 2003 triggered an avalanche of sordid allegations about mayoral misconduct, police cover-ups, aromatic bubble baths, lurid text messages, extramarital affairs and a talking turtle. The case pits...

A judge has ruled that the Detroit City Council cannot hold a hearing to try to remove Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick from office.

FBI probe targets father of embattled Detroit mayor Leftist link only...

DETROIT — A judge ruled Friday there is enough evidence for Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to stand trial on two felony assault charges stemming from a confrontation with two investigators. The investigators testified that an angry Kilpatrick shoved one of them into the other and made racial remarks while they were trying to deliver a subpoena in the mayor's perjury case to a Kilpatrick friend last month. Judge Ronald Giles made the ruling after hearing several hours of testimony and arguments in 36th District Court. The mayor remains free on bond ahead of an Aug. 22 arraignment in Wayne County Circuit...

Swedish authorities said parents can now name their newborns "Budweiser" or "Metallica" if they so wish. For decades, Swedish tax authorities had banned parents from naming their children after fast food chains, rock bands or their favorite brand of beer.< Snip >

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/08/021191.php "The Mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick, was sent to jail today for violating travel restrictions that are a condition of his being free on bond as he awaits trial on eight counts of perjury and other felonies. The travel restrictions were tightened after Mayor Kilpatrick was accused of assaulting a sheriff's deputy who served a subpoena on him. Mayor Kilpatrick is a superdelegate to the Democratic National Convention. In May 2007, Kilpatrick received this glowing endorsement from Barack Obama, who called him a "great mayor" who is doing an "outstanding job." My favorite part is where Obama says that...

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The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., the former pastor of Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. acknowledges the audience at the Detroit NAACP's 53rd annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner Sunday, April 27, 2008.The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., right, the former pastor of Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., laughs with Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, left, at the Detroit NAACP's 53rd annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner in Detroit, Sunday, April 27, 2008. Second right is the Rev. Wendell Anthony, president of the Detroit Branch of the NAACP.

DETROIT (AP) -- The City Council rebuffed embattled Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's attempts to propose a budget on Monday, the latest sign of increasingly frosty relations between the mayor and city leaders. Kilpatrick, who is fighting criminal charges, walked in to the Council chambers, sat down and prepared to speak. Council President Ken Cockrel then informed him that he had talked over the matter with other members over the weekend, and they agreed not to hear from the mayor. "This could have been done in my office," Kilpatrick told the Council before heading out into the hallway, where he called the...

For Detroit, news last week that its mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, had been indicted on numerous charges – including the felonies of perjury and obstruction of justice – were the kind of kick to the chest that the city could have done without. Kilpatrick came to office as the face of youth and energy, a former legislator called the “hip-hop mayor.” It was hoped that he would reinvigorate the city, and restore confidence in her. Housing, as it did everywhere else, boomed. The city sought out new business and new opportunities. Citizen confidence was restored, and an improbable sense of civic...

You just can't make this stuff up:Mayor Would Attack Messages' Authenticity http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080321/NEWS01/803210357Other Detroit Free Press updates: Kwame Crocker sez:Mayor Kilpatrick: 'Enough is enough' http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080321/OPINION02/803210334 And the City of Detroit's money bonfire continues:Judge stops effort to block text messages http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080321/NEWS01/80321020

Information uncovered by Chief Investigator Steve Wilson is raising new questions about who's paying Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's soaring legal and PR bills -- and recent trips on expensive private jets. Wilson: It was seven years ago that the city of Detroit wrote into its charter and city law an Ethics Code for city officials. Its purpose is to see that they avoid conduct that has even the *appearance* of being improper. Even so, as we first told you earlier, Mayor Kilpatrick and the First Family are getting big personal benefits and refusing to disclose who’s really paying the bill...

Check out Kwame's meltdown before his hand-picked, by-invitation-only audience at his State of the City speech in Detroit on Tuesday, March 11. These people went from Escorts to Escalades after they became Kwame appointees, so naturally they still support their meal ticket. http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z3WBeXBjjZA

The Story Of 'N': The Word That Won't DiePOSTED: 6:05 pm EDT March 12, 2008 UPDATED: 6:24 pm EDT March 12, 2008 DETROIT -- Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick stood before hundreds of people last summer and triumphantly proclaimed: "Die N-word, and we don't want to see you 'round here no more." But the epithet that he and other black leaders symbolically buried in downtown Detroit during a national NAACP convention was resurrected by the embattled mayor Tuesday night during his annual State of the City address, carried live on local television and radio stations. Facing possible perjury charges from testimony...

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DETROIT (AP) -- The Michigan Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to keep documents from a secret settlement of a whistle-blowers' lawsuit from being made public. The documents are related to embarrassing and sexually explicit text messages between Kilpatrick and his former top aide, but they do not include the actual messages. The city filed its motion to take a state Appeals Court ruling to the higher court Feb. 15. The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday morning. It concurred with an Appeals Court panel that said a circuit court judge was correct in...

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick went on the radio Friday to lash out at the Detroit Free Press for the sex-text scandal -- and tell Detroiters that he's on a mission from God.

The chief of staff for Detroit City Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers tells WXYZ Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick should consider resigning over the text-sex scandal.

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick unveiled his new budget plan Wednesday to City Council members. Insiders expected to see deep cuts in city government and reductions in city services, but Kilpatrick stated during his speech that those deep cuts were already made and the focus of the 2006-2007 city budget will be on the process and structural side.

DETROIT -- Freman Hendrix has requested a recount of the Nov. 8 mayoral election in Detroit. Hendrix conceded to incumbent Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick the day after the election. Thousands of supporters encouraged Hendrix to request a recount because of voting and ballot-counting issues including reports of broken seals and transmission line malfunctions, Local 4 reported.

Monday September 19, 2005 By BREE FOWLER Associated Press Writer DETROIT (AP) At a time when Detroit needs its suburbs more than ever, the long-standing rivalry between the city and its surrounding towns is hitting another rough patch. Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, facing a tough re-election fight, last week caused a controversy when he singled out two school districts in neighboring Oakland County as having higher rates of drug use than Detroit's. ``In Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills and all these places, they do more meth, they do more Ecstasy and they do more acid than all the schools in the city...

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick said Thursday afternoon that the city would open its doors for victims of Hurricane Katrina, Local 4 reported.

Report: Mayor Threatens To Cancel Freedom Festival Kilpatrick Vetoes Council Budget Plan POSTED: 4:36 pm EDT June 3, 2005 UPDATED: 4:59 pm EDT June 3, 2005 Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick said the fate of this year's International Freedom Festival may be in the hands of City Council. The mayor told WWJ-Radio that if City Council votes on Monday to remove 600 police officers and 120 firefighters, he would cancel the event. In a live address on Local 4 at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Kilpatrick "strongly" vetoed council's budget plan. The mayor and City Council agree that cuts need to be...

Desperate for revenues, Detroit ponders fast-food tax 5/8/2005, 9:15 a.m. ET By SARAH KARUSH The Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Would you like fries with that? Either way, the Detroit city treasury would like a bite. Faced with a $300 million budget hole, and with traditional revenue-raising options largely exhausted, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is hoping people won't mind forking over a few extra cents for their Big Macs and Whoppers. Kilpatrick is preparing to ask Detroit voters to approve a 2 percent fast-food tax — on top of the 6 percent state sales tax already applied to restaurant meals. The...

State Sen. Clarke enters Detroit mayoral race 5/6/2005, 12:42 p.m. ET The Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Democratic state Sen. Hansen Clarke said Friday he's running for mayor to revive neighborhoods and bring the city back from financial chaos. Clarke, a native Detroiter, briefly ran for mayor four years ago, then withdrew to support the campaign of Kwame Kilpatrick, the current mayor. Clarke said in an interview Friday that he thought Kilpatrick would inspire people, but now thinks the mayor has proved powerless to stop the city's bleeding of people and money. "I'm doing this to save the city of...

Love him or hate him, credit uber-aggressive TV reporter Steve Wilson with performing a minor miracle: He's brought Detroit and Warren together. In hatred. Of Wilson. Weeks after Warren officials stonewalled the pit-bullish, scoop-loving, over-the-top reporter by answering each of his litany of questions with a nonresponsive and unfounded mantra, Detroit pastors demanded Monday that WXYZ-TV fire Wilson. Whereas Warren officials accused Wilson of mischaracterizing a trip to Costa Rica, more than two dozen pastors said their ire peaked when they heard that the muckraker had, in their words, harassed Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick on a Friday flight home from...

Time magazine lists Kilpatrick among worst big city mayors 4/17/2005, 3:30 p.m. ET The Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who is facing an election this year as the city struggles with a deficit of more than $300 million, is being dubbed one of the worst big city mayors by Time magazine. The list of Time's five best and three worst big city mayors appears in the issue of the magazine that hits newsstands Monday. Neither list was ranked, and the mayors were listed in alphabetical order. The magazine criticized Kilpatrick in part for the city's signing of...

Kilpatrick, reporters continue to clash over Navigator 1/31/2005, 5:46 p.m. ET By SARAH KARUSH The Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick on Monday continued to clash with reporters over a luxury sports utility vehicle at the first of his weekly news conferences intended to improve his relations with the media. Kilpatrick announced he would hold the weekly briefings after questions over the city's two-year, $25,000 lease of a Lincoln Navigator snowballed into a major story. Kilpatrick at first denied that the Navigator was for his wife, but ultimately acknowledged that it was intended for use by the...

Detroit officials confirm SUV was intended for mayor's family 1/22/2005, 4:34 p.m. ET By SARAH KARUSH The Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Police Chief Ella Bully-Cummings confirmed Saturday that a luxury SUV leased by the city was intended to be used by police officers driving the mayor's family. WXYZ-TV in Detroit first reported on the SUV just over a week ago, saying it was for Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's wife, Carlita. The mayor's office and the police department repeatedly denied that it was for Mrs. Kilpatrick. "We clearly screwed up on the communications," Kilpatrick said during a news conference that included...

Daron Caldwell is now free. Monday morning, Wayne County prosecutor, Kym Worthy, and Detroit's chief of police, Ella Bully-Cummings, held a press conference where they dropped all charges against the man previously accused of June’s Hart Plaza fireworks shootings. Caldwell had been had been charged with second-degree murder and six counts of assault with intent to murder. He was held on a $100 million bond before his release Monday afternoon.

Kilpatrick faces firestorm of criticism over police dismissal By LIZ AUSTIN The Associated Press 5/15/03 12:01 AM DETROIT (AP) -- Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, a former college football player and member of a local political dynasty, is no stranger to challenges. Complaints about his large security detail and his decision to give city jobs to friends and relatives have plagued the mayor since early in his 16-month tenure. Now Kilpatrick, 32, is facing criticism over his dismissal of Deputy Police Chief Gary Brown, who oversaw the department's internal affairs decision. Brown claims he was fired on Friday because he had begun...