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Kwame Kilpatrick, Ben Carson slated to speak at Oakland County Republican Party Dinner

Detroit’s former Democratic Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is one step closer to making his full-on Republican transition this campaign season, as the now-pastor and executive director...

Kwame Kilpatrick to Wed This Saturday in Detroit

Photo by Andre Smith   Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, 51, will soon marry Laticia Maria McGee this Saturday, Deadline Detroit reported. Bishop J. Drew Sheard is...

Supreme Court declines appeal request from ex-Detroit mayor

DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined a request by former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to overturn his corruption conviction and 28-year...

Court affirms conviction, long sentence for Detroit ex-mayor

 DETROIT (AP) — An appeals court on Friday upheld the corruption conviction and 28-year prison sentence of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who was...

Judge: Detroit eligible for Chapter 9 bankruptcy

DETROIT (AP) — Detroit is eligible to shed billions in debt in the largest public bankruptcy in U.S. history, a judge said Tuesday in...

Kilpatrick pal Ferguson gets 21 years in prison

In this March 11, 2013 file photo, Bobby Ferguson, a friend of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, leaves federal court in Detroit. (AP...

Detroit ex-mayor Kwame Kilpatrick gets 28 years

In this courtroom sketch, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, sits between his attorneys Harold Gurewitz, left, and Margaret Raben before federal Judge Nancy Edmunds during his sentencing in federal court on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Jerry Lemenu) DETROIT (AP) — Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced Thursday to 28 years in prison for corruption, the apparent last step after a series of scandals destroyed his political career and helped steer a crisis-laden city even deeper into trouble.

Ex-Mich. congresswoman to preside over ET hearing

CAROLYN CHEEKS KILPATRICK DETROIT (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick and a handful of other ex-members of Congress have agreed to preside over a series of hearings later this month on the existence of extraterrestrials.

Bankruptcy expert named Detroit emergency manager

NEW EMERGENCY MANAGER--Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder announced March 14, that Kevyn Orr, a bankruptcy expert who represented automaker Chrysler LLC during its successful restructuring, has been named Detroit's emergency manager. (AP Photo/Courtesy Jones Day) by Corey Williams Associated Press Writer DETROIT (AP) — A bankruptcy expert who represented Chrysler during its successful restructuring has been chosen to steer Detroit out of the financial abyss that has swallowed the distressed city, which was once one of the nation's most prosperous.

Ex-Detroit mayor convicted, jailed until sentence

HEADED TO PRISON----Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick leaves federal court after being convicted March 11, in Detroit, of corruption charges, ensuring a return to prison for a man once among the nation's youngest big-city leaders. (AP Photo/Detroit News, David Coates) by Ed White Associated Press Writer DETROIT (AP) — Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was convicted Monday of corruption charges and then sent to jail to await his prison sentence in yet another dramatic setback for a man who once was among the nation's youngest big-city leaders.

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