COREY WILLIAMS

Associated Press Writer
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Detroit mayor takes city's plight to lawmakers

Mayor Dave Bing has spent the past few months bringing stability back to Detroit City Hall.

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Ex-Detroit mayor resumes testimony on finances

An attorney for Compuware Corp. testified Tuesday that ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick did not sign a promissory note on a $240,000 loan until IRS and federal agents asked to see the documents.

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Former Detroit mayor files lawsuit over racy texts

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick filed a lawsuit Wednesday against a lawyer who leaked racy text messages to the Detroit Free Press and kicked off a scandal that brought down Kilpatrick's administration and sent him to jail.

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Detroit mayor supports $500.5M schools bond issue

The financial manager for Detroit's public schools has enlisted — and received — the support of the city's mayor on an ambitious $500.5 million building plan expected to extend taxes for district capital projects through 2039.

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3 who died in Detroit race described as healthy

The deaths of three runners who collapsed during a 13.1-mile half marathon appear to have been an aberration, but at least six runners have died while competing in such events in the last two months.

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Detroit has more targets in annual arson battle

For the five years that the wood bungalow next door has been empty, Darlene Banks has kept an eye on it as Halloween approaches. She wasn't expecting anyone to burn it weeks sooner.

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Thousands mob Detroit center in hopes of free cash

Scuffles erupted as several thousand Detroit residents jockeyed, pushed and shoved Wednesday to get free money being offered to only 3,500 of the city's recently or soon to be homeless.

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Piece be with you: Detroit pastors packing heat

The Rev. Lawrence Adams teaches his flock at the Westside Bible Church to turn the other cheek. Just in case, though, the 54-year-old retired police lieutenant also wears a handgun under his robe.

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Board takes control of Detroit's Cobo Center

A regional board officially takes control of Detroit's aging Cobo Center on Tuesday after months of political haggling and court battles over the venue, which each year hosts the nation's premier auto show.

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Robert Bobb hits streets to coax students back

Felicia Harvey has two reasons for sending her children to the Detroit Academy of Arts & Sciences: They are learning at the charter school and she doesn't trust their education — or safety — to the city's historically poor public schools.

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Deficit keeps Detroit mayor busy in 1st 100 days

Dave Bing is aware of what waits for him each morning as he strolls into Detroit City Hall.

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5 Detroit schools employees charged in fraud probe

Five Detroit Public Schools employees have been charged with embezzlement in an ongoing investigation into the "culture of corruption" that took hold in the state's largest district, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

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New police chiefs aims to tame Detroit streets

Warren Evans once thought he might tame scandal-plagued Detroit City Hall as mayor. As the new police chief, he's focused on bringing order to streets he has called the "wild, wild West."

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Red foxes moving to downtown Detroit

Keen-eyed anglers or people heading to work near Detroit's riverfront typically spot them, padding quietly in the pre-dawn light through weed-filled lots or in the shadows of long-abandoned factories.

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Congressman's wife resigns from Detroit Council

Just months after spending of hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees to oust former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, the beleaguered city of Detroit was spared another round Monday when City Councilwoman Monica Conyers resigned her seat without a fight.

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Detroit mayor: Hard-hit city needs federal funds

Mayor Dave Bing hopes long-term solutions to Detroit's problems arise from the National Summit being held in the city, but said short-term financial help likely only will come from the federal government.

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Youth ask mayor for solutions to Detroit's ills

The burned-out house next to Shomari Raby's home is an eyesore, but it's the drug addicts who linger outside and get high inside that cause her to walk past quickly on her way to and from school.

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Detroit tries to turnaround failing school system

Just like the auto companies that fuel this city, struggling Detroit schools are undergoing a painful restructuring to avoid complete failure and bankruptcy.

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Education secretary: Detroit schools 'ground zero'

Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Wednesday that Detroit's troubled public schools are "ground zero" for education in the U.S. and promised federal help if leaders are willing to make necessary changes.

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NBA great Dave Bing wins race for Detroit mayor

Basketball legend Dave Bing was elected Tuesday as Detroit's mayor through the end of the year, sweeping the incumbent from office in the city with myriad problems.

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Ex-NBA great Dave Bing sworn in as Detroit mayor

Businessman and former NBA star Dave Bing is now the mayor of Detroit, and the third person to hold the job in eight months.

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Jackson says NAACP must help save auto industry

The NAACP has fought for a century to bring equal and civil rights to blacks, but the Rev. Jesse Jackson believes the organization's current battle is to help the troubled U.S. economy and struggling domestic auto industry.

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For its trouble, downtrodden Detroit gets Pulitzer

Struggling simply to survive as readership and advertising drop, the Detroit Free Press celebrated winning a Pulitzer Prize on Monday for its reporting of a sex scandal that brought down the city's mayor.

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Detroit councilman walks away from his mortgage

It was their dream home, a two-story, four-bedroom colonial in one of Detroit's nicest and most stable neighborhoods.

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Michigan State fans' hopes fizzle by halftime

Down 55-34 at halftime, the party that was Michigan State's magical season began to fizzle and sputter in downtown Detroit on Monday night, while the streets of Chapel Hill buzzed.

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