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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...

Kilpatrick may get extended stay in Manoogian9/6/2008, 9:11 p.m. EDT The Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his family may remain in the official mayoral residence after he leaves office later this month. A spokesman for Detroit City Council President Ken Cockrel Jr. told The Detroit News on Friday that the Kilpatricks may be able to stay in the Manoogian Mansion for a while. Cockrel is set to become mayor Sept. 19. Kilpatrick resigned on Thursday as part of a plea deal. He pleaded guilty to two counts of obstruction of justice and pleaded no contest to...

(WXYZ) In the wake of his resignation, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's name will be taken off the water tower at the Detroit Zoo.

WXYZ) - With an air of confidence, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick addressed the city of Detroit saying "There's another day for me." The speech came on the heels of the Mayor's guilty plea to felony charges.

Obama: "I want to, first of all, acknowledge your great mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick. Who has been on the front lines doing an outstanding job of gathering together the leadership at every level in Detroit to bring about the kind of renaissance that all of us anticipate for this great city. He is a leader, not just here in Detroit, not just in Michigan, but all across the country people look to him. We know that he is going to be doing astounding things for many years to come. I'm grateful to call him a friend and a colleague and I'm...

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...

(WXYZ) Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's legal team is asking the court to step in and stop removal hearings that are set to take place on September 3rd. In a complaint filed with the court, the mayor's attorneys argue that Governor Jennifer Granholm has made prior statements indicating that she has prejudged the matter and will be predisposed to remove Kilpatrick from office. Attached is a Summons, Complaint and Emergency Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction which was filed today. A hearing before Judge Ziolkowski is scheduled for Friday, August 29th at 10:00 a.m.

Detroit (WWJ) -- A plea deal has been offered during an arraignment for Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. But defense attorneys say no deal.

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

DETROIT -- Wayne County District Court Judge Ronald Giles ruled there is enough evidence for Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to stand trial on felony assault charges.

UPDATE: (WXYZ) Mayor Kilpatrick has issued the following statement about the Convention situation. The nomination of Sen. Obama at the Democratic National Convention will be a historic event, however I'm focused on running the city and I don't want anything to distract from that extraordinary moment. The focus should remain on uniting the party and leading our great nation in a different direction.

Judge Leonard Townsend ruled Kilpatrick's tether can be removed and travel restrictions will be lifted, so the mayor can attend the Democratic National Convention in Denver.

Detroit (WWJ) -- There are new calls for Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to resign amid the scandal that has the mayor facing ten criminal charges. Congressman John Dingell issued a statement Wednesday calling for the mayor to resign.

A Detroit Emergency Medical Technician’s union grievance hearing abruptly ended this morning because his attorney refused to stop tape recording the proceeding. The hearing was to address the firing of Detroit EMT Doug Bayer, who is suing the City of Detroit, Fire Department Commissioner Tyrone Scott, and other supervisors. Bayer accuses the department of terminating him because he spoke to the media and the Michigan State Police about what he says he knows about the alleged Manoogian Mansion party.

DETROIT -- With a picture of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's face next to it, "No More” read the headline of the well-respected African American Detroit newspaper, the Michigan Chronicle. "If (Kilpatrick's) love of Detroit is as strong as he professes, he will make the right decision, which we believe, is to step down," the paper wrote in Wednesday's morning edition.

The Detroit City Council’s attorney William Goodman must provide the names of all witnesses he plans to call at the removal hearing of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick by August 15, according to an order Governor Jennifer Granholm issued today. Sharon McPhail, Kilpatrick’s General Counsel, must submit their list of witnesses on August 25.

According to the affidavit, Carlita had witnessed Greene touching the mayor "in a manner that upset the mayor's wife." She was later shot and killed and the homicide remains unsolved.

DETROIT -- The Michigan attorney general has filed a motion claiming Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick violated his bond in an assault case a day after being released from jail following a bond violation in his perjury case.

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is under the microscope as more controversy surfaces. There are new questions that the Mayor may have violated his bond again.

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was arraigned on assault and obstruction charges today in 36th District court.

(WXYZ) Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is expected to be arraigned on felony assault charges either later today or early tomorrow.

DETROIT, Michigan (AFP) - The mayor of Detroit, Michigan, embroiled for months in a torrid sex scandal, was placed under arrest Thursday for violating a provision of his bond forbidding him from leaving the country. A Detroit judge ordered embattled Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick jailed for a recent unauthorized trip he made to nearby Windsor, Canada, violating the terms of his bond. His jailing seemed certain to ramp up efforts to force his resignation, which he so far has stubbornly resisted. "I thought I made it clear to you that this court comes first in everything," Wayne County District Court Judge...

Judge Ronald Giles has ordered Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick into Wayne County Jail for violating his bond. The 36th District Court judge stressed that he was treating Detroit's mayor in the same way he would "John Sixpack." Judge Giles also revoked the mayor's ability to travel. Additionally, he ended the drug testing that had been imposed on Kilpatrick, saying that all 4 of the previous tests had come back negative.

Wayne County Sheriff Warren Evans said he is "baffled" that the simple serving of a subpoena escalated into possible assault charges against Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.

Wayne County Judge Ronald Giles has revoked Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's previous bond and ordered random drug screening on Friday based on testimony from two detectives in the accusations that Kilpatrick assaulted Detective Brian White.

An attorney for the Mayor says the process server refused to leave the property when the mayor asked, so the process server was, "gently escorted off the porch by the Mayor."

An Action News investigation is raising questions tonight about whether Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pulled some strings to help a well-connected defendant avoid a trial. It’s a story of a preacher, a prostitute and the mayor—and some say it’s also more evidence of how some people accused of wrongdoing can seem to simply avoid facing the music in the city of Detroit these days under Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick suffered two defeats before City Council today when a committee rejected his plan to sell the Detroit Windsor tunnel and Members indicated they would fight using city money to pay the mayor's lawyers.

DETROIT (AP/WXYZ) - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will be conspicuously absent when Barack Obama makes his first campaign stop in the city since effectively wrapping up the Democratic presidential nomination. The embattled mayor, facing criminal charges and public scrutiny in an embarrassing text-messaging sex scandal, has decided not to attend Monday night's rally at Joe Louis Arena.

The married mayor also signed off on a confidentiality agreement that hid from the Detroit City Council the role those text messages played in an exorbitant $8.4 million settlement of a whistle-blowers' lawsuit by former police officers. The scandal has led the City Council to ask Gov. Jennifer Granholm, a fellow Democrat, to remove Kilpatrick from office for misconduct. The council accuses the mayor of violating provisions in the city charter as part of the whistle-blowers' settlement. The nine-member council also is expected to begin forfeiture of office proceedings against the mayor in about two weeks.

A day after a judge lashed out upon learning Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick had skipped a court hearing and taken a trip to Texas, the mayor tells WXYZ the uproar "had nothing to do with me."

Lansing, Mich. (AP) -- Gov. Jennifer Granholm's office will review a City Council request to remove Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick from office, the governor's staff said Tuesday. Kilpatrick already faces perjury and other criminal charges involving a whistle-blowers' lawsuit settlement, and Granholm has said she wants the criminal process to play out. But that could last months, leading the council to ask the governor to remove Kilpatrick. State law allows the governor to remove an elected official from office for a number of reasons, including when an officeholder has been guilty of official misconduct. The 10-page petition and the supporting...

The Detroit City Council Tuesday will officially ask Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm to remove Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick from office. Last week, council members voted 5-4 to begin forfeiture of office proceedings against Kilpatrick. On a separate 5-4 vote, they approved asking Granholm to terminate Kilpatrick's hold on the mayor's office. A third vote -- to censure the mayor -- passed on a 7-2 vote.

DETROIT -- Whenever it rains, crews at Northwest Activities Center in Detroit have to climb on the flat roof with squeegees to try to prevent water from leaking inside. Inside, buckets are lined up to catch whatever the crews could not scrape off the top. This is the situation after, not before, the city spent $16 million to renovate the center.

The City Council put aside more than three months of internal bickering and hand-wringing, narrowly approving efforts that take the first step toward removing popular Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who faces perjury and other charges related to explicit text messages sent to a former aide.

Michigan Sen. Martha Scott filed petitions Monday to put her name on the Democratic primary ballot for U.S. representative in the 13th District. The person who currently holds that office is U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (D-Mich.) Scott has served as mayor of Highland Park, a state representative and now a state senator.

I didn’t laugh out loud until she said, “You have to know your boundaries,” but it’s the line at the end that really brings down the house. Note to young Kierra, righteous in her irritation: Her grasp of boundaries isn’t Mrs. Conyers’s strong suit.

DETROIT -- Newly released text messages in the City Hall scandal surrounding Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick show that the mayor had handpicked and promoted the head of Internal Affairs, the guy who would be in charge of investigating him if corruption charges ever surfaced.

A judge on Tuesday allowed the release of raunchy text messages that a lawyer allegedly used to get Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to shell out $8 million in city money to make a police whistle-blower lawsuit go away.

He (Mayor Kilpatrick) habitually used city funds like his personal bank – running up $200,000 in spa treatments and champagne, for example, early in his term. The mayor reimbursed the city for about $9,000 after the scandal broke, claiming that the rest of the charges reflected legitimate city business. The city at the time was cutting police officers, and even auditors, to plug a $250 million budget deficit. But the latest, most spectacular scandal had its genesis at a party that supposedly took place in the mayoral mansion to celebrate Mr. Kilpatrick's election, shortly after he took office. The allegation...

Kilpatrick told the crowd: "I'm not being whupped by the devil, I am being punished by my God. I know that my disobedience put me in the situation I am in."

Some are calling it a big waste of Detroit tax dollars. FOX 2 cameras were rolling as city employees went door-to-door escorted by a fire engine and a police car. As Brad Edwards explains, they weren't fighting crime or a fire. Instead, they were working for Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=6317458&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=3.2.1

The embattled mayor, despite facing felony perjury and other criminal charges, continues to promote the more than $300 million bond proposal to improve city infrastructure and services.

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy has just filed an emergency motion for a hearing to modify the bond for Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. Action News broke the story of the Mayor's weekend trip to Dallas. Now...the prosecutor wants the mayor on a tighter leash.

DETROIT, Mich. -- Rescue 4 has learned the city of Detroit filed documents that say the Detroit Police Department has new leads into the death of Tamara Greene, who was rumored to have danced at the Manoogian Mansion. And the city says they need more time to investigate the five-year-old Greene homicide case.

DETROIT (AP) - The Wayne County prosecutor's office says it has filed a motion seeking the disqualification of all 36th District Court judges in the preliminary examination for Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.

WILSON: Kilpatrick's Secret SpendingLast Update: 12:23 am Under strong pressure to resign, vowing never to quit, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is holding fast to his penchant for hiding information the law says taxpayers have a right to see. Wilson: You might think now that he’s facing multiple felony charges for his alleged misconduct linked to hiding his secret deal in the text message scandal, the mayor would be ready now to support the transparency he’s always promised…but here’s another example, law or no law, this mayor is still just not interested in that. Wilson approaching mayor: Mr. Mayor? Mr. Mayor?...

DETROIT (AP) - A city of Detroit lawyer who told a judge she wasn't aware of any confidential agreements in a text-messaging sex scandal involving Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has changed her recollection.