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Detroit mayor, soon off to jail, talks of comeback

DETROIT (AP) — Only hours after agreeing to resign and serve time in jail as part of plea deal, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick expressed regret for the scandal that has engulfed the city — and left the door open for a return to public life.

Kilpatrick walked into a City Hall conference room Thursday to thunderous applause and thanked his family, backers and staff members for sticking by him during his rocky 61/2-year tenure.

‘‘I truly know who I am. I truly know where I come from. In Detroit I know who I am. And I know because of that, there’s another day for me,’’ he said in a 20-minute speech on live television. ‘‘I want to tell you, Detroit, that you done set me up for a comeback.’’

In exchange for pleading guilty to two counts of obstruction of justice, the Democrat will get four months behind bars, pay the city $1 million in restitution, lose his license to practice law, and cannot run for any elected office for five years.

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Prosecutor: Detroit mayor may plead guilty today

September 4, 2008

DETROIT (AP) — After months of defiantly holding onto his office, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick appeared ready to give it up as part of a plea deal with prosecutors in a sex-and-misconduct scandal that has e

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Mayor appeals to stop hearing

September 4, 2008

LANSING (AP) — Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s legal team filed an appeal Wednesday with the Michigan Supreme Court trying to halt a hearing before Gov.

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Ford, GM, Toyota sales fall as auto slump persists

September 4, 2008

DETROIT (AP) — Nearly every major automaker saw its U.S. sales drop in August, but many are seeing signs that the worst slump in recent history may have bottomed out.

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Constitutional changes in court

September 4, 2008

LANSING, Mich.

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Young killer pleads guilty in traffic case

September 4, 2008

ROCHESTER HILLS (AP) — A 22-year-old man who killed at age 11 has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of driving on a suspended license and not wearing a seat belt.

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