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(Reuters) - A Detroit prosecutor has filed a petition in district court to stop a Florida fundamentalist Christian preacher, who recently caused riots in Afghanistan after he burned a Koran, from holding a rally outside a large Michigan mosque. Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said the threat of violence was too great to allow Terry Jones to hold the planned gathering on Friday near the Islamic Center of America -- the largest U.S. mosque -- in the heavily Muslim Detroit suburb of Dearborn. A hearing on Worthy's bid to block Jones and his supporters from holding the rally at the...

Kilpatrick, Worthy at a Glance By The Associated Press – 1 hour ago NAME: Kwame Malik Kilpatrick. AGE: 37. EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree in political science, Florida A&M; law degree from Detroit College of Law at Michigan State University. POLITICAL CAREER: Detroit mayor, 2002-present; Michigan House, 1996-2001; minority floor leader, 1998-2000; House Democratic Leader, 2001. PROFESSIONAL CAREER: Teacher in Detroit Public Schools, 1993-97. PARENTS: U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, D-Detroit, and Bernard Kilpatrick, former chief of staff to Wayne County Executive Ed McNamara and a former county commissioner. PERSONAL: Wife, Carlita; twin sons Jalil and Jelani and son Jonas. DEFINING CHARACTERISTICS:...